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The Truth About Saturated Fat
10:21 - 16:39 (06:17)
This podcast episode discusses the research surrounding saturated fat and its effect on our health, including the flawed methodology of early research and the more recent comprehensive study that challenges the idea that saturated fat is universally bad.
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Research about saturated fat being bad for health was based on small sample sizes and questionable methods like feeding high-fat diets to schizophrenic patients, making it unreliable to generalize.
10:21 - 14:19 (03:57)
Summary
Research about saturated fat being bad for health was based on small sample sizes and questionable methods like feeding high-fat diets to schizophrenic patients, making it unreliable to generalize.
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Ansel Keyes conducted a study called the Seven Countries Study, funded with $200,000 in 1956, to analyze heart attack mortality rates and diets in Italy, Greece, the former Yugoslavia, Netherlands, Finland, America, and Japan.
14:19 - 15:03 (00:44)
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Ansel Keyes conducted a study called the Seven Countries Study, funded with $200,000 in 1956, to analyze heart attack mortality rates and diets in Italy, Greece, the former Yugoslavia, Netherlands, Finland, America, and Japan. Despite the study's fame and having been cited one million times, its selection of countries has been criticized for being very selective, with predominantly white countries and Japan.
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The podcast discusses the relationship between the amount of saturated fat in one's diet and the risk of heart attacks, and highlights a famous infographic that shows the correlation.
15:03 - 16:39 (01:35)
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The podcast discusses the relationship between the amount of saturated fat in one's diet and the risk of heart attacks, and highlights a famous infographic that shows the correlation. The podcast also mentions the study's contribution in proving that heart attack rates vary across different countries.