there seems to be a new study weekly
NEWS! (Not Really) - AHA hates coconut oil
ibj9
#49
It’s like coffee. One minute it’s poison and another it is curing cancer and prolonging your life!
Sheri_Knauer
(Sheri Knauer)
#51
Could this have possibly triggered the anti coconut oil crap? https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/news/press-releases/2017/03022017-bayer-and-libertylink-soybeans-help-protect-hearts-in-americas-heartland?xtmc=Aha&xtnp=1&xtcr=1
Chris_W
(Crow T. Robot)
#53
That’s the thing, there’s no new science – they just keep recycling and repackaging the same old ideas and releasing it as a new “study”. When you find out who is funding this crap, you understand that it’s literally nothing more than marketing.
Simply put, they are starting and finishing with a false premise: higher LDL means you have heart disease. They don’t look at actual outcomes (was there any actual harm), they just jump to the conclusion (called a surrogate endpoint). Mostly because they are supported by the pharmaceutical industry, which is making billions selling statin drugs which only do one thing: lower LDL.
ianrobo
(ianrobo)
#54
From the Bayer PR I noticed this line
Allen Gent, Strategic Business Lead for Bayer, said, “The average age of the American farmer is well over 50 years old, and automation is much more prevelant in today’s agriculture climate. Growers are more sendentary than in the past, which is one contributing factor to cardiovascular disease
Could it be that they are eating the crap that they grow ??
MajorRedbeard
(Ryan Lindsey)
#56
Yeah, this seems to be trending at the moment.
The video I watched yesterday had my jaw agape the entire time - they opened by saying “Coconut oil isn’t good for you, it’s fat!”. And it was downhill from there.
I find it very dishonest when they don’t actually link to the report. We get to make a really splashy headline without justification!
Sheri_Knauer
(Sheri Knauer)
#57
The day before that article came out, I read one saying Butter was bad and we should be using margarine instead…
OldDoug
(Doug)
#58
That Channel 10 webpage just looks like click-bait advertising to me. The thesis is that saturated fat “is bad for you,” and at the very least there is more to the truth than that.
“A new report by the American Heart Association says coconut oil is as bad for the body as other oils high in saturated fat, like butter, beef fat and palm oil.” – On that webpage, the “American Heart Association” is a link, and if you click on it you go to another page where the very first article mentioned is “Controversial paper says saturated fats don’t clog arteries.”
Sheesh… 
MajorRedbeard
(Ryan Lindsey)
#59
Technically that statement is correct, in that they’re not at all bad for you… 
carolT
#62
Wow. Even diabetes.co.uk is calling BS on the AHA now. Ouch.
This AHA statement does not set the conflicting record straight, it is no more than a prefabricated set of interpretations. Therefore, the input from the AHA is not worth much and probably doesn’t justify any such dietary restriction. http://www.diabetes.co.uk/in-depth/american-heart-association-doubles-anti-saturated-fat-stance/
MarkGossage
(bulkbiker)
#63
diabetes.co.uk are the low carb supporting site… I just checked diabetes.org.uk which are the mainstream charity one who advocate avoiding sat fat but they seem to have ignored the AHA article completely…
brownfat
(Todd Allen)
#64
Here’s an interesting review of the coconut controversy by Mike Mutzel who promotes keto.
rosyegg
(Rosemary Easter)
#66
I recently watched a video on YouTube by KetoGeek interviewing Dr. Zsofia Clemens and I think she said that coconut oil was bad for you and he said that the AHA agreed with her, but she didn’t explain why and her accent is a bit difficult to understand. Has anyone else heard this?
rosyegg
(Rosemary Easter)
#67
This is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSCMt5F0ldA but is quite a long video and I think was mentioned nearer the end.