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Body fat isn’t that bad for you. It turns out that eggs are actually good for you. Red wine is good for you. Some salt in you diet is necessary — so is some fat.

When will we see a study that says smoking is actually good for you?

LOL. I don't know about smoking; but, a number of recent studies seem to be indicating that some stuff that has otherwise been said to be unhealthy, --- not so much. The brain needs some fat, your heart functions better with salt than if you do a low-salt diet. Gary Taubes' POV about everything we've been told being wrong is looking more and more plausible.

Now, I stopped listening to a lot of the doomsayer stuff a while ago. This constant yo-yo of "it's bad for you", "no, it's good for you", "no, it's bad for you", ad nauseum, just made me realize that no one knows anything about this stuff and the media has decided to just keep on trying to get us to be hysterical. Must be good for ratings.

But, don't worry. As soon as a story like this gets out, the nannies double-down on the hysteria and we will all be told, once again, that (fill-in the blank) is bad for you.