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That was quite the read!

But this is what really stands out to me:

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“We don’t eat saturated fat,” says Kashey. “We eat bacon cheeseburgers and ice cream.”

Just 28 percent of the saturated fat the average American eats comes from proteins and dairy, such as a piece of meat or glass of milk. Sixty percent of it comes from multi-ingredient foods.

“If people actually followed the guidelines and stopped eating all the bacon cheeseburgers and ice cream, they’d be healthier,” says Kashey.

“the best diet isn’t carnivore—and it isn’t vegan, either it’s where the warring sides of nutrition infighting can’t often meet somewhere in the middle”
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Nestle takes it even one step further to say that if people eat mostly whole foods and move more, saturated fat becomes practically irrelevant.

In fact, 10 percent saturated fat in a diet of whole foods isn’t all that limiting—something like three eggs, two slices of bacon, a serving of full-fat Greek yogurt, and a broiled six-ounce New York strip topped with a pat of butter and washed down with a glass of whole milk in one day.

The amounts of foods listed in that last paragraph are certainly not going to provide what's considered keto percentages, but add in a couple servings of veggies, and that really doesn't sound all that much different from a lot of lower carb diets - animal proteins, with naturally occurring animal fats, and even a little bit of butter to go on the veggies.

Of course he's right at the beginning of that quote. we don't eat sat fats (unless you're snacking on sticks of butter). People eat bacon cheeseburgers (which are of course served on a great big, starchy-sugary bun, with a pile of starchy fries, with a sugary soda), and icecream (which is loaded with sugar).

If you can eat all the things listed at the end of that quote and still be within the "recommended" 10% sat fat limit, then it's not the sat fat that's the problem at all. It's not animal foods that are the problem.

Once again, we're back to the sugar and starch being the real problem.