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I don't think it forgot to mention them. I think it's arguing against them.

I think the presenter who has an MD and a PhD from the WashU School of Medicine and a BA in Biology from Princeton (Of course I don’t think that having a diploma (or three) from a University makes what you say any more or any less true[0]) is arguing against the lipid hypothesis[1] and for the sugar hypothesis[2]: that sugar is actually the cause of all those ill effects.

There doesn't seem to be a consensus, though in the past the consensus seemed to be for the lipid hypothesis though that appears to be rapidly breaking down.

[0] Lots of people without degrees of any sort are saying the same thing, they’re all just as right/wrong

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid_hypothesis

[2] https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2006/01/05/the-sugar-hypothe...



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Is laughter the right response? Perhaps they have several decades of counter-evidence or question the soundness of the research done supporting the lipid hypothesis? I feel like curiosity is always appropriate.


> Perhaps they have several decades of counter-evidence

They don't. At best, they are armed with a few dozen recent, biased, cherry-picked publications with illogical conclusions, which I'm happy to pick apart if anyone can actually cite them.

The downvotes only affirm my point - people would rather be in denial than search, find and read the research for themselves, and admit they had been fooled.


I recommend you read The Fig Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz. You will be quite surprised how completely wrong your view on the subject is.


the "Big" Fat Surprise


I don't know why you put Big in quotes. Elaborate on that please?


To contrast his typo above ("Fig [sic] Fat Surprise"), I think.


Likewise, except my recommendation for you is How Not to Die by Michael Greger, or just see http://nutritionfacts.org




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