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by spirit557 1119 days ago
> - saturated fats are generally bad and should be minimized in the human diet. Milk is full of them and they are direct causes of heart disease and other top killer health issues for people

Of course, that's why a human mother's milk is 50-60% saturated fat, right? Saturated fat consumption grams per capita has basically remained steady for the last 120 years or risen slightly, even 20 years before heart disease started to surge right around the time Crisco in the 1920s was introduced into the food supply.

Let's look at the data since 1900. We were told to replace saturated fat with polyunsaturated. Look let's see how that turned out:

https://www.cureamd.org/dr-knobbe-presents-macular-degenerat...

Wow, would you look at that rise in heart disease deaths. Totally running in lock step with saturated fat consumption wasn't it? Whoops, nope!