NYT article on link between Sat Fat and Heart Disease

EDollah

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/study-questions-fat-and-heart-disease-link/

For the tl:dr types, the conclusion is: there's not a link between saturated fats and heart disease.

Note: I'm not posting this as "breaking news", I've seen this mentioned before on these forums. I'm merely posting as an item of interest for nutrition in major media.

PaleoPath4Lyfe

There will be many people that come in and try to dispute it. Here is more information and research done by some well respected Dr's that show the same outcome.

http://coconutoil.com/mary_enig/

http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm

cwsreddy

saturated fats are great as long as you're getting them from the right sources.

ldula88

I agree, saturated fats aren't bad for you, despite what many people think it's those evil trans fats you have to watch out for

cwsreddy

holy bump batman

bcattoes

The authors of that study had to publish again to correct errors (after they released results to the media). Some scientists are sayhing that is not enough and calling for a complete retraction.

http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2014/03/scientists-fix-errors-controversial-paper-about-saturated-fats

rlengland2014

Another related article:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303678404579533760760481486?mod=WSJ_hppMIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond&mg=reno64-wsj