Are the new US Dietary Guidelines "an evidence-free zone"?
Why are the new US Dietary Guidelines still issuing warnings about saturated fat in 2016? And why are they still mumbling about cholesterol, even after removing the limit and even after their own preliminary report clearly said cholesterol is "no longer a nutrient of concern"?
Even more disturbingly, the guidelines pretend to have scientific support when in fact there is little to no evidence supporting them. A prominent cardiologist writing in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine yesterday even calls the guidelines "an evidence-free zone"!
Pretty remarkable, and it shows how non-existent the consensus behind the guidelines is.
Just forget about the saturated fat phobia. It's a relic of a past age, and there is no real evidence to support it.