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The American Heart Association Bravely Admits They’ve Been Right All Along

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Is "fathead-movie.com" an authoritative source? It sure does not sound like it.

When the site comes back up, you should have a look through the site's blog and come to your own conclusions. IMHO, Tom Naughton cites more studies more accurately than the vast majority of so called 'health' authorities.

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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11745-010-3393-4 It isn't too hard to read nutrition studies you find from Google Scholar. I strongly recommend people try it. Instead of angry rants about those awful bureaucrats at the AHA you get informative and very readable scientific prose like this: >Public health emphasis on reducing SFA consumption without considering the replacement nutrient or, more importantly, t…

The fathead article is a rebuttal to that study, not an "angry rant".

It's a rant.

The problem with the blog is that it uses all the wrong keywords and format:

- "Has I said all along" - "Follow the money" - Characterizing stuff like vegetable oil as "industrial product" - Attack individual (Sacks), not ideas. - Provides no data - Provides plenty of exclamation marks. - Fill with fake-news looking "cholesterolcloggingarteryohmy!" key phrase all over.

If he aimed at looking non-credible, he succeeded.

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I don't know how to process this article: is AHA morally compromised as the author claims or is the author one of those fake-news-screaming type folks?

The former. The author has been posting about this since 2009. From the comments section of TFA:

> I trust people who 1) respect basic principles of science … such as “don’t just ignore dozens of well-done studies that run counter to your hypothesis”, 2) don’t require donations from Big Food and Big Pharma to exist, and 3) take our evolutionary history into account when deciding which foods are likely good or bad for us. The AHA fails on all three counts. - Tom Naughton

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I don't know how to process this article: is AHA morally compromised as the author claims or is the author one of those fake-news-screaming type folks?

I think it is more like the innovator's dilemma, as applied to a non-profit organization. I wouldn't go so far as to call them "morally compromised".

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> "His definition of “low carb” was 35% of calories. If you’re consuming 2000 calories per day, that’s 175 carbs per day. "

What's a "carb per day"? 175 of them?

I think he's trying to say: "That's 700 calories of carbs per day". If he is, his writing is really sloppy. Pass.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fathead article is a rebuttal to that study, not an "angry rant".

It's a rant. The problem with the blog is that it uses all the wrong keywords and format: - "Has I said all along" - "Follow the money" - Characterizing stuff like vegetable oil as "industrial product" - Attack individual (Sacks), not ideas. - Provides no data - Provides plenty of exclamation marks. - Fill with fake-news looking "cholesterolcloggingarteryohmy!" key phrase all over. If he aimed at looking non-credible…

He attacked the studies of the individual and used that to show that the man had no business writing the study in the first place and should therefore be discredited.

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fathead article is a rebuttal to that study, not an "angry rant".

It's a rant. The problem with the blog is that it uses all the wrong keywords and format: - "Has I said all along" - "Follow the money" - Characterizing stuff like vegetable oil as "industrial product" - Attack individual (Sacks), not ideas. - Provides no data - Provides plenty of exclamation marks. - Fill with fake-news looking "cholesterolcloggingarteryohmy!" key phrase all over. If he aimed at looking non-credible…

Yeah, I had a lot of the same issues with the rebuttal that I had with the original article. I found the personal attacks and negative characterization of products very distracting.

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I don't know how to process this article: is AHA morally compromised as the author claims or is the author one of those fake-news-screaming type folks?

Probably some combination of the two. The "science" around diet and exercise is thoroughly corrupted by huge amounts of money from various companies and people that try to push the results in directions to benefit themselves.

Even the valid and reproducible studies out there seem to be twisted into into overly hyperbolic claims by companies looking for profit or bloggers/journalists looking for views.

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post #14

I don't know how to process this article: is AHA morally compromised as the author claims or is the author one of those fake-news-screaming type folks?

I think it is more like the innovator's dilemma, as applied to a non-profit organization. I wouldn't go so far as to call them "morally compromised".

It kinda sounds like they're a non-profit public health organization that profits by harming the public's health. Am I missing something?
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