‘Settled’ Science on Saturated Fats Revised
3rd May 2014
If you want to understand why ‘climate change deniers’ refuse to bow to ‘the scientific consensus’, the history of what science ‘knows’ about nutrition is a good place to start.
For decades, Americans have organized their diet in a way to minimize their intake of saturated fats like butter and red meat. Vegetable oils and carbohydrates became a bigger part of our diet, because, we were repeatedly told, animal fats led to heart disease.
Today, however, we are learning that this advice was bogus. A recent landmark health study has concluded that there has never been a link between saturated fats and heart disease. The “settled science” on nutrition wasn’t quite so settled.