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Originally Posted by scotty2hotty
A quick search on my part turns up a very recent (2010) meta-analysis on the subject. It takes a lot more than breezing over Pubmed headlines to pretend to be a scientist.
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/ea...27725.abstract
You may be 100% correct on this topic. Maybe not. The point is that book is not even close to being closed on this subject. Perhaps take a moment to relax and take a breathe before you spout blind rhetoric as absolute fact. You will often discover that the complete truth remains unknown and is much more complex than we imagined.
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The thing about research is that there are so many variables. That's why health guidelines are made based on a body of evidence, not just one study. Wherever there is a link that has a lot of evidence for it, there will be some evidence against / saying it's inconclusive. Problems with your meta-analysis:
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/92/2/458.long
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It is well established that saturated fat intake is associated with increased concentration of serum cholesterol (4), and that serum cholesterol concentrations are associated with CHD and CVD (5). Therefore, serum cholesterol concentrations lie on the causal chain between saturated fat intake and CHD and CVD and to adjust for serum cholesterol concentrations in a meta-analysis will obscure the effect of saturated fat intake on these health outcomes. Yet 7 of the 16 studies included in the meta-analysis of CHD events, and 4 of the 8 studies included in the meta-analysis of stroke events, were adjusted for serum cholesterol concentrations. These studies accounted for nearly half of all CHD and CVD events included in the meta-analyses
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The meta-analysis has further issues:
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/92/2/459.2.long
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/91/3/497.long