And Lets discuss the topic of Bacon Fat hardening arteries coming from a French man whos cuisine tends in a lot of cases to be clogged with butter while we are at it ..... 
Now, the French don't
all put butter in everything, the Lyonnaise use lard instead!
The whole thing about fat
per se, and saturated fat especially, being bad for you was proved wrong quite some time back. The whole 'fat is bad' thing was all initially whipped up from one
epidemiological study and one of the ironies of that was that the French didn't fit - they ate
more fat than everybody else and suffered
less cardiovascular disease. It was known as the
French Paradox. Rather than all the people who were invested in the 'fat is bad for you' hypothesis saying, like good little scientists should,
"The data doesn't support the hypothesis therefore the hypothesis is wrong" instead they went off hunting for all sorts of spurious reasons why the French didn't fit the model (and failed comprehensively to find any).
Eventually someone went and did a Cochrane study of all the papers from the 'fat is bad' camp written in the wake of the major epidemiological study and came to the conclusion "This whole body of work is bollocks", only they put it more 'scientifically' using phrases like '
methodologically flawed', '
statistically insignificant' and the like. The message that all this crap had been invalidated has not got through to most doctors or most dietitians, so you will still hear the 'fat is bad' line being trotted out by professionals who should know better. The general public, who read the Daily
Fascist Mail, watch "Good Morning", or the local equivalents of the aforementioned can be forgiven, sort of, but any medical professional still touting the 'fat is bad for you' line should be shot. Those who have moved on any alternative, also unsupported, scaremongering that "
Common <macronutrient X> or <common food ingredient Y> is bad for you" should have the courage of their convictions, admit that they just think food is bad for you and should stop eating themselves.
I get a bit tired of this process of conducting mass medical experiments on the whole population by every 10 or 15 years scaring people into omitting some major food ingredient by popularising half-baked theories with no science behind them and in some cases (e.g. sugar) forcing the whole population into using substitutes (e.g. artificial and pseudo-natural sweeteners) that haven't had the 100,000+ years in vivo testing that the banned/shamed substance has had. In my lifetime we've had carbohydrates, fat, salt, sugar, and carbohydrates again. I'm just waiting for protein to be named and shamed by the 'medical' community.
The mass medical experiments have not worked, not one of the campaigns to reduce people's intake of
bad food ingredient du jour have improved the population's health one jot. People still get fat, people still have cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. My father's generation loaded themselves up with fat, salt, alcohol and sugar and were no more or less healthy than this generation - they were however slimmer probably because many of them worked up a sweat in their jobs and, as my father would love to tell you "
'ad to walk to school in all weathers, rain or shine, five mile or more, up 'ill, down dale..." (continued page 97)
Before anybody says "
Yes, but everybody knows X is bad for you" ask yourself where you got that information and what supporting evidence you have for it. "Everybody knows" is not science, it's not even evidence. Neither is "
I heard it from Cissy next door, who heard it from her sister, who's Doctor told her...".
Cissy and Ada:
In light of the above, regarding the subject incompetence of trained medical staff not the conversational habits of Cissy and Ada, ponder on the fact after cancer and cardiovascular disease, '
iatrogenic causes' is the third largest cause of death in the US (Source: Journal of the American Medical Association).
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