Vegetable oils, (Francis) Bacon, Bing Crosby, and the American Heart Association

A friend on Facebook recently sent me a link to the article mentioned, about Coconut oil and beef fat, from the American Heart Association.  I think Gary Taubes breaks it down wonderfully.  :)  Please click the link below to read the whole awesome thing!  ~Ness



Vegetable oils, (Francis) Bacon, Bing Crosby, and the American Heart Association:



Larry Husten at CardioBrief asked me for a comment on the American Heart Association’s Presidential Advisory on Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease, which was published yesterday. I got carried away in my response and Larry asked if he could publish it as a guest post, which he did after some revisions. Here’s that post. As usual, I would have rather spent a few days on this, but that wasn’t in the cards.



"They’ve effectively eviscerated their own case. If this was a legal case, the judge would now throw it out and we’d all be having coffee in the lobby (with or without cream) discussing how this fiasco played out and why it ever got to court to begin with. And this leads to the third point."