‘While it is not quite an invitation to embark on a diet of pizza and ice cream sundaes, New research from the BMJ – formerly the British Medical Journal – claims that decade-old advice restricting dietary fat intake may be completely unfounded.
In fact, the study in the online journal Open Heart, goes so far as to say dietary fat guidelines introduced in 1977 and 1983 “should not have been introduced”.
…These early recommendations in the UK and US advised reducing overall dietary fat consumption to 30 per cent of total energy intake, and saturated fats to 10 per cent.
New Zealand’s recommendations are similar. The Ministry of Health recommends between 30 and 33 per cent of our daily intake should come from fat, of which no more than 12 per cent should be saturated fat.
But the Open Heart authors have poked holes in the recommendations, citing problems with limited trials in only a very small group of 740 men – on which the recommendations were based.
“It seems incomprehensible that dietary advice was introduced for 220 million Americans and 56 million UK citizens, given the contrary results from a small number of unhealthy men,” commented the authors.
…NZ MOH NOT BUDGING ON FATS’
Update:
James Delingpole on the subject

‘Let’s forget about starving artist for a moment and get right to a more accurate, and ominous, conjugation: The artist in America is being starved, systemically and without shame.
…with our consummate lack of reverence, we in America kill our poets in quite another way: We ignore them to death…’
The rest of this whining drivel HERE

There’s a hell of a lot of ’em about:
‘Smokefree cars next step, says lobbyist
Community and Public Health smokefree promoter Leola Ryder yesterday said the tax increases had proved a step in the right direction.
..”I’d love to see the government push for smokefree cars. So we’ve ticked off smokefree playgrounds and parks. Our Smokefree South Canterbury Committee have done two years of research around that [smokefree cars],” she said.’
Readers here know my views on self-righteous little scumbag parasites such as this one, so I’ll leave it at that.

‘Even Accused Rapists Must Be Innocent Until Proven Guilty, Barrister Blogs’

‘Marine Le Pen lays it all out, much to the displeasure of a BBC troll.’
Colonel B. Bunny has it.

though the heavens fall’

leopard cub with a bottle of frozen water.

‘…The ideology of President Barack Hussein Obama is spreading like a cancer over the Free West and is now metastasizing. With Obama’s election team already running anti-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and anti-Prime Minister Stephen Harper campaigns in Israel in Canada, Obama’s former constant companion Reggie Love has joined up with Obama’s 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina to steer the British Prime Minister David Cameron-led Conservative Party to election victory in May.‘  Link
This shows Cameron for what he is – no real conservative would be seen dead in the same room as these scumbags.

‘Gallup CEO: I May “Suddenly Disappear” For Telling Truth About Obama Unemployment Rate
Clifton stated the following on CNBC:
“I think that the number that comes out of BLS [Bureau of Labor Statistics] and the Department of Labor is very, very accurate. I need to make that very, very clear so that I don’t suddenly disappear. I need to make it home tonight.”
After getting that out of the way, Clifton went on to eviscerate the legitimacy of the cheerful spin given to the unemployment data, telling CNBC viewers that the percent of full time jobs in this country as a percent of the adult population “is the worst it’s been in 30 years.”..’

‘Scientists Befuddled by El Niño’s Absence

…“One thing that stands out on this [El Nino/Southern Oscillation] is how wrong the models were in predicting a major event in 2014,’’ said Matt Rogers, president of Commodity Weather Group LLC in Bethesda, Maryland..’
But of course, the models can predict what happens to climate fifty years hence…yeah, right.
Update: ‘The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever’