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Many don't think much about results of studies that contradict common beliefs; even when they have implications to their own health. It is difficult to appreciate all the reasons why this may be so. The bigger impetus, I believe, is when the media and medical professionals continue with the common rhetoric. "If so many are saying so, then it must be right." is easy to understand and yet so easy to appreciate how wrong that could also be. Some will remember the fiasco when various Covid19 measures failed to stop the disease. The attached 2 studies come with interesting background stories; they were meant to show that seed oils were better than saturated fats. Results from both studies showed otherwise and both studies were buried only to be found years later, reanalyzed and published. While it is speculative, the results, if they had been published earlier, would have gone against the commonly advocated "saturated fats cause heart disease" rhetoric of the time. What's right isn't always popular.
