Fat Tuesday ping.
A lot of heart disease can also be traced to genetics.
I have a relative who has always been physically active and has always had a very low fat diet.
He has heart disease as did every male member in his family.
After examining the evidence and seeing what I think works best for me, the only thing I now take steadily is 3mg of fish oil per day. Its my basic supplementation. I'd probably be taking Vitamin D as well, 'cept I have some kidney stone issues.
Better yet would be to get these from the diet and sunshine, but that would be in a perfect world..
“Experts said..”
Yeah.
If one is blessed with a long enough life they tend to see the same nonsense pop up after a few decades, but under a new name. I was looking through one of those bound-book type historical compilations of our local newspaper front pages for the last 150 years or whatever. They were describing what was then (early 1970s) “the drinking mans diet”, it was identical in make up to the latest fad just a few years ago, whatever that was called. In the earlier iteration doctors wondered about kidney damage as a result of faddish diet.
One of the imponderables is why there are so much fraud and waste and duplication of effort in stuff that was figured out long ago. Get a USDA handbook #8, I think it is. Like many things, it might be better to get one published before about 1950 or so. Taxpayers funded this kind of stuff for a hundred years now at least.
Dietary fads are nothing new, and they weren’t a good idea then either. Vintage cookooks are excellent too - no lectures on global warming or the latest cause celebre, just good food!