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This just sounds like a semantic disagreement. I believe the evidence base presented in the paper is a pretty fair representation of the field, and justifies the authors’ statement:

> the totality of the evidence supports the recommendation to limit SFA intake to <10% TDE for the general healthy population

I would call this pretty good evidence. Perhaps you wouldn’t but, as I say, that’s probably just a semantic disagreement.

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> would call this pretty good evidence

Sure, I would too. I wouldn't call it strong evidence one way or another. The error bars suggest there is too much in-population variance to come up with useful general guidelines. (Frying an egg in a tablespoon of lard every day wouldn't constitute 10% TDE on a 2,000-calorie diet, for example.)

> The error bars suggest there is too much in-population variance to come up with useful general guidelines.

I’m not sure I’d agree there. What’s the argument for that?

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