This is the conclusion from a new, very large data analysis study in Annals of Internal Medicine:
 
Conclusion: Current evidence does not clearly support cardiovascular guidelines that encourage high consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids and low consumption of total saturated fats.
 
http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1846638&atab
 
I am having a bacon double cheese burger for lunch ... on a donut.
 
This is from a NYT blog:
 http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/study-questions-fat-and-heart-disease-link/?_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=3
 

Long live the Anals of Infernal Medicine!
 
I think I'll have a couple of these:
 

 

I like this one better than that BMI doomsday thread.

They're just messing with us - they periodically offer completely opposite recommendations:
 
Coffee is good for you! 
No, coffee is bad for you! 
No, coffee is good for you! 
No, coffee is bad for you! 
No, coffee is good for you! 
No, coffee is bad for you! 
No, coffee is good for you! 
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They're just messing with us - they periodically offer completely opposite recommendations:
 
Coffee is good for you! 
No, coffee is bad for you! 
No, coffee is good for you! 
No, coffee is bad for you! 
No, coffee is good for you! 
No, coffee is bad for you! 
No, coffee is good for you! 
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Oh yeah.....I remember them doing the same thing with cholesterol in eggs.......

I think I'll get some coffee (while I think about making some becan and eggs). 

Still - to eat the beans!

 
 

I use a fairly simple method to determine what's good and what's bad. 
 
If 30 minutes after my meal I am full of energy and ready to do 30 minutes of high intensity cardio or an hour of weight training, that meal was probably healthy. - Lentils, lean chicken breasts or turkey, lots of greens, fresh fruits, lactose free cottage cheese, greek yogurt, nuts. That's the bulk of my diet.
 
If I feel like lying down watching movies - which eventually leads to eating more junk - my meal was inefficient. Beef, bread, pastas and the likes fall into that category. I keep that stuff for the weekend. 
 
After a while, your body tells you.

Good to know. Now I can carry on taking no notice whatsoever of food  "experts".

I guess they'll never thoroughly map the complexity of factors concerning healthy/unhealthy food. What is good for a population with this genetic heritage kills people with that genetic heritage.
North-Karelia Project in eastern Finland was once the Mother Of All Diet Surveys, a huge international
effort to make the folks there (especially men) change their killer diet, and to find out what-causes-what etc.
It gave a clear results: Fatty diary products and fatty meat (=hard fats) simply kill.
 
Now, the inuits have never eaten anything green, only hard fat, but cardiovascular diseases were unknown to them before they got aquainted with "white mans food".
 
Whatever you eat you go wrong from some perspectives, and right from other perspectives.
I believe the key is physical exercise. As long as you give your body a hard time in a constructive way, it will turn
any food into something healthy.