New diet villain just dropped. Believe or disbelieve this specific one, “fat” or even “polyunsaturated fat” increasingly looks like a failure as a natural category. Only finer-grained concepts like “linoleic acid” are useful for carving reality at the joints.
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This systematic review and meta-analysis doesn’t seem to indicate that linoleic acid is unusually bad for all-cause mortality or cardiovascular disease events.
And is there another meta-analysis showing the opposite? I kinda just don’t trust those anymore, unless somebody I trust vouches for the meta-analysis.
Ah, yes, the argumentum ad other-sources-must-exist-somewhere-um.
xcancel link, since nitter.net is kaput.
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Yud writes back:
Ah, yes, the argumentum ad other-sources-must-exist-somewhere-um.