#Fats-and-oils

The World Health Organization is about to publish a report on how the palm oil industry is promoting obesity and chronic disease as well as environmental degradation as integral parts of its business model. The draft report gets right to the point. We highlight the industry’s mutually profitable

The endless arguments about dietary fats and dietary fat versus carbohydrate make no sense to me, because we mostly eat these as components of food, and foods as components of diets of massive complexity. But scientists do like to debate such issues so it comes as a breath of fresh air to read a

The World Health Organization (WHO) is collecting comments until June 4 on its recent “consultation” (committee report) on saturated fat and trans fat. The consultation recommends: Saturated fat: no more than 10% of calories Trans fat: no more than 1% of calories These recommendations are

In the late 1980s, nutrition scientists identified fat and saturated fat as key nutrients that needed to be reduced in US diets. One result was the Snackwell’s phenomenon in the early 1990s—“no-fat” cookies with just as many calories as the ones with fat.  They flew off the shelves. Now the

I cannot understand the revisionist attack on the work of Ancel Keys, who died at the age of 100 in 2004.  Most scientists are lucky to have made important contributions in one area.  Keys produced outstanding work in several: High altitude physiology The physiology of starvation (for this