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10:41 - I read it on the Internet
http://www.thescreamonline.com/essays/essays5-1/vegoil.html
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Apparently canola and corn oil is Bad For You, and coconut/palm oil and lard have been better all along.
But the panel was not unanimous. Dudley White, M.D., disagreed with his AHA colleagues by noting that heart disease in the form of myocardial infarction (MI) was non-existent in 1900, when egg consumption was three times what it was in 1956 and when corn oil was unavailable. When pressed to support the Prudent Diet, White replied, “See here, I began my practice as a cardiologist in 1921, and I never saw an MI patient until 1928. Back in the MI-free days before 1920, the fats were butter and lard, and I think we would all benefit from the kind of diet we had at a time when no one had ever heard the words ‘corn oil.’”
Via the discussion on this topic at Dean's World, regarding the whole New York trans-fats ban. Which you know will only force McDonald's and their fellow perennial public-health boogermen to scurry from what had been their previous safe haven and seek out yet another, which will probably yet again make the food taste worse and turn out to be more unhealthy than the current solution, after another twenty years of research. Then another generation of Morgan Spurlocks will arise to hound them from cover while mocking us for just wanting a damn hamburger, and we'll start the cycle all over again.
When did science get to be so disillusioning, anyway?
UPDATE: On a similar note: now MoveOn.org is freaking out over the 18,000 lost votes in Florida due to an electronic voting machine malfunction. "Paperless elections can't be recounted!" they cry. "Repair our nation's elections!" But not by using, y'know, paper ballots, like with hanging chads and stuff, right?
UPDATE: Odd, too, that stories such as this (via JMH) should fill me with such warm fuzzies.
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Brian Tiemann
