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Both saturated fats and processed foods are the "enemy". Seriously.. you are risking heart disease and to some degree cancer if you believe 50 years of life saving science. If you wish to choose to believe a handful of studies funded by the meat and dairy industry, do it at your own risk to your health and the environment for our children.

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You prefer to believe studies funded by the sugar industry?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-ind...

Isn't sugar part of "processed food"? As in.. processed sugar.

I was referring to the way you happily dismiss research by the dairy and meat industries, but seem to readily accept '50 years of life saving science' which was originally based on research funded by the sugar industry to shift the blame on heart disease away from sugar and on to saturated fats.

Wow.. those sugar industry must be really loaded to have funded 50 years of research. Sure part of that wasnt funded by government as well?

That same 50 years of science have led to the biggest obesity epidemic in history.

Not sure where in the scientific literature it recommends to eat a big mac and fries.

It doesn't, but the problem is larger than that.

The scientific literature recommending a low fat diet, incentivized the food industry to reduce/remove fat from their products, but then they had to compensate for the loss of flavour by adding sugar and other flavour enhancers. Fat is also filling, and by removing it, people need to eat more in order to feel full.

The average woman in the US today weighs as much as the average man did 50 years ago [0]. Changes in nationwide dietary habits, due in part to scientific literature over the last 50 years, bear some responsibility for that.

0: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/12/look-...

The processed food industry followed what the guidelines were to be compliant and be profitable. I don't see how what scientific studies recommends, such as whole foods and greens are in the same vein as a low-fat microwaveable TV dinners from processed food companies.

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