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Penny Kris-Etherton, a professor of nutrition at Penn State University and vice chairwoman of the committee, said earlier studies may have shown ....
Every time I read weasel words like this (and nearly every single study and report uses them) I hear the sound of the medical industry blowing another load down its profit-seeking pantleg
I thought Kris-Etherton who was into nutrition was suggesting why good fats did not help as previously thought, i.e. people keep eating junk food while knocking down pills. She did not advocate people to take pills in lieu of following better nutritional measures.
PS. It remains indisputable that Japanese people have a much lower rate of coronary diseases than Americans, and that is attributed to the difference in diet. Japanese immigrants living in the US suffer the same coronary disease rate, so that rules out the genetic factor.
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