"French Paradox"

Coconut Oil: "Super food" or "Poison"?

Here we go again. A Harvard teacher said "coconut is poison" and lit up the internet. It's a replay of last summer's hoopla, when USA Today published an article saying coconut oil has never been healthy.

Just like in politics, proclamations about the goodness or evilness of foods are also becoming increasingly polarized. "It's a super food!"  "No! It's poison!" 

Eat More Fat Part II

In Part I, we discussed the fats that we need to eat more of and which we should avoid altogether.

Yes, fat is essential for health. So what happened?

How did we get it all so wrong?

For starters, nutrition science is a hugely imperfect field. It's impossible to completely isolate variables and determine an exact "causation."