Sigh... indeed! Sad that even Harvard are still putting their name to studies like this.
I imagine Dr Greger will be all over this study shortly - I haven't read it on depth yet, but seems another variant on the flawed Lyon Med Diet study way back now looking at the surface, with similar flawed thinking and methodology. Wonder if its funding originally came from anybody connected to the food oil or agriculture industry as well, originally?
I imagine that, like with many studies like these, they either don't mention Ornish, Esselstyn etc. at all, or minimise their contributions: but again hope to have a look soon.
The diamond quote (!) from that release:
“Clinicians should be counseling patients to replace certain fats, such as margarine and butter, with olive oil to improve their health,” Guasch-Ferré said. “Our study helps make specific recommendations that will be easy for patients to understand and hopefully implement into their diets.”
No shame: but probably, that's because there's awareness either. Their advice is better at least for animal welfare, and the environment perhaps - but otherwise it's only correct for people who refuse to give up added fats altogether
after they've been counseled of their dangers.
Everybody else should take it for the biased suggestion it is - however, unfortunately, it'll just add to the confusion for many people.
Perhaps not surprising though we've still got this bizarreness though in the end. Even today, there seems to be two, separate streams of science in this field and the scientific journals: one stream that acknowledges Ornish et al, and the other that doesn't and won't. Guessing it's still money and politics that are making sure never the two shall meet... and the second gets the money, usually.
Model science
"All people are made alike - of bones and flesh and dinner. Only the dinners are different.”
Gertrude Louise Cheney
by vman » Tue Jan 18, 2022 9:58 am 
