[base698]

As opposed to selling "Healthy" fat free cookies, breads and meats laced with extra sugar?

I think the point of all this new research is that you can't take out fat and expect your diet to be healthy--the real story is much more complex. Most educated people would realize eating lowfat cookies still isn't a good habit to have, but society seems to think it's ok.

[jacques_chester]

You're conflating two things.

"Eat less saturated fat" means ... eat less saturated fat.

Not: eat more of everything else.

And that advice is still sound. Calorie for calorie, gram for gram, saturated fat is worse for heart health than polyunsaturated fat.

You're blaming the scientists and doctors for being (somewhat wilfully) misunderstood. You might as well blame physicists for plane crashes. After all, they lied to us about gravity!

[newaccountfool]

"In contrast to current recommendations, this systematic review found no evidence that saturated fat increases the risk of coronary disease, or that polyunsaturated fats have a cardioprotective effect."

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/03March/Pages/Saturated-fats-and...

[jacques_chester]

As I noted below, that study was not focused on randomised controlled trials and has been criticised by sloppy work on the part of the authors.

[base698]

I'm making a practical argument about the effects of "fat is bad" mentality. It is much harder to avoid sugar and nutritionally void processed food at this point in time.

Ultimately people want to be healthy, and using the heuristic to avoid fats isn't the way to make healthy eating decisions by itself.