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In the link he brings up the "fatty food makes you fat" thing. My memory is that fatty foods were shown to be bad for your heart back in the 1980's and I always wondered where the "makes you fat" part came from. It's almost like once something is labeled (fatty food = bad) people forget the why and substitute their own reasons.

Similar stuff is going on now with saturated vs unsaturated fat. The problem is trans-fat which tends to form in the commercial process for saturating fat, and in the deep fryer. I don't recall any other research, but now there seems to be another "reversal" on saturated fat. Or is it unsaturated? IDK, but the public opinion is getting altered again.



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