I noticed that almost all types of cooking oil (vegetable oil, olive oil, peanut oil, etc) contain some saturated fat. Since saturated fat is known to be a contributor to heart disease, then could you simply remove the saturated fats from the oil to make it healthier?
A lot about health and diet isn’t understood very well. There are a number of advocates for saturated fats over PUFAs, with some (but not universal) evidence to support it. It’s entirely possible that it’s a case of correlation vs causation, but nothing has been proven with certainty.
I am so sick of this. Everything is bad for you, horribly sourced, unsustainable, promotes slave labor, has/is “evil” gmo. No one is in agreement and there is so much bad information out there and what info there is is buried behind a pay wall in a scientific paper i don’t know is there, and do not have the time or energy to decipher. The wealth of all human knowledge could be at my finger tips but the only reliable info are cat pictures.
It is really hard to do a good studies on diet. You end up with one of two conclusions: “Despite our best efforts we were unable to get our test subjects to follow the required diet”; or “These results may not generalize to the general population who isn’t confined to [a prison cell/hospital bed]”.
We can study how one meal effects your body, but that isn’t really helpful - Does it matter if some diet causes cholesterol to go up/down for a bit and then it returns? And cholesterol is one of those markers where we have enough studies to conclude that high is bad, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that high for a bit and returning to low is also bad. Some things like smoking are such large effects that we can look at general population and make conclusions, but often the effect isn’t that large and so it is believed that some diet is good/bad, but we cannot prove it from data we can collect.
The above is about actual science. Most mainstream diet books at best cherry pick some fact and then take it to an extreme to create some eating plan ignoring all evidence of other facts that might limit how far you can take this one. (that is assuming they start with a fact - just making up facts is common as well) The news media doesn’t care to figure out what is real science and what is made up facts.
Right, but a concrete “we don’t know” from a source that is the end all of what a study finds is needed. Because right now everyone and their mother is a arbiter of the “truth” corporate interest and idiocy have choked all reputable data to death. You can not rely on journalists to interpret studies, as their motivation is based on money one way or another. Obviously there is a problem with corruption when that authority is centralized but right now either ignorance or malice is a given
Well the “promotes slave labor” and “horribly sourced” are not limited to food, and GMOs are fine.
Diet is definitely one of those things that’s really hard to research though, because people are peddling snake oil constantly. I wish i had a solution.
Snake oil is the only healthy fat and should be consumed in massive quantities.
Maybe stop looking for people to tell you what to think, read the info first hand, at the source, and make your own conclusions?
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I mean, I’m not concerned so much about what evolution wants. I am more concerned that i can make living not suck.