An article on fats and health

[conuly]

Interesting is about all I can say about it. Can't process it right now.

Comments

[isabeau.livejournal.com]

Except they're not using that anecdote to deal with diet-as-proof, so much as to disprove the "well, okay, maybe these people have a high-fat diet and low rate of heart problems, BUT that's only because of genetics". Which, if it were the case, would apply even when they switched to a different lifestyle environment.

(The impression I got from the article was less "X is the definitive Why" and more "Y is generally considered the definitive Why, but here are some areas where Y doesn't really work". Disproof rather than proof, which is often easier. If you're stating A-causes-B, you have to show that B happens whenever A does and that A fails to happen whenever B fails to happen and that the two are causally linked and not just coincidence, but if you're stating that A-causes-B /isn't/ true, you just have to show that there are times where A occurs and B doesn't.)