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Now we need two decades before all the studies of the past 10 years are common knowledge and I can buy full fat yogurt in my corner store, but right now it's only stocking reduced fat ones with added sugar, because some pillock in the 50s construed the idea that saturated fat is going to kill us. Sorry, but the obesity epidemic isn't because everybody is eating butter.

/r/ketoscience has plenty interesting studies about high fat low carb if you're interested in doing your own research. And I'm a big fan of the "Low Carb Down Under" Youtube Channel for latest research talks.

https://youtube.com/c/lowcarbdownunder

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Nutritional literature is notoriously contradictory.

Here's an article that says higher intake of dairy fat is associated with higher risk of cardiovascular disease. https://www.clinicalnutritionjournal.com/article/S0261-5614(...

And here's one that says the exact opposite of that. https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

The vast majority of nutritional studies are based on epidemiology and pretty much useless. Since diet is so hard to control for, it looks at aspects of the diet of a group of people and tries to determine which variable are correlated with specific outcomes.

Most nutritional science is a whole load of crap. Which is why I invite anyone to learn and experiment with their body. The stakes are low, the benefits potentially great and it's easy to tell what feels good and what doesn't. It's not science, but again, most of nutrition isn't either.

> and I can buy full fat yogurt in my corner store

Won't happen. Fat is (relatively) expensive and causes satiety fast.

Carbs are very cheap and very addictive and cause compulsive overeating.

Unless there's strong legislation or very severe social stigma (like for smoking), food will always trend towards low-fat high-sugar.

So I've never not been able to buy full fat, plain yogurt in Germany.

Just saying that low-fat high-carbs is the natural optimum for food industry profits. Everything else is niche and will come with a higher markup.

Full (and half) fat plain yogurt is also the cheapest in Germany.

Yogurt is VERY easy to make. And you can make it with whole fat milk.

I love non-fat greek yogurt, extremely high in protein %, but yeah don't understand the non-fat & added sugar stuff.

“doing your own research.”

The battle cry of the scientific illiterate.

Let me get this straight, so doing experiments is "not science", while trusting Authority is real science?

I don't know what to say.

Unfortunately, the general populace does not understand that finding evidence in support of a conclusion is not equivalent to doing scientific research. Never mind evaluation of the science within publications. Never mind that often people find secondary sources (oneliners extracted from summaries from news post from press releases from groups writing the actual paper).

In practice, "doing your own research" is never that, at least from what I have seen. This pandamic had a special effect on my opinion I should add...

Bad science is still science.

"Trust the Authority" is not science at all.

Bad science >> no science.

Unnuanced statements are never correct or useful.

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