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The gall of these people, calling this a Planetary Health Diet and presuming to speak for everyone on the planet.

In the section labelled Panel 3, "The planetary health diet and health—evidence for causality"

Ideally, evidence for the effects of specific foods, nutrients, and overall diets on major health outcomes would be based on large, randomised trials with disease and functional endpoints in representative populations across the world. However, this type of evidence is scarce because such trials require many thousands of participants, many years—or even decades—of follow-up, and sustained high adherence to assigned diets. These requirements are neither feasible nor ethical, and randomised trials not meeting these criteria can easily yield misleading, null, or negative results. Therefore, for studies of diet and other behavioural and environmental exposures, frameworks to assess causality, such as the Bradford Hill criteria,66 have been developed.

"We can't do science to prove what we're saying, so we've made something up instead."

For dietary factors, these frameworks typically include reproducible evidence from prospective epidemiological studies (eg, following a cohort over time) in combination with randomised trials that include intermediate risk factors as outcomes.67 Rigorous control of confounding factors by study design and statistical methods is essential.

If only epidemiological studies were done, then what "rigorous" control could there have been?

The far higher ratio of polyunsaturated fatty acids to saturated fatty acids in these plant foods compared with red meat and dairy products predicts lower LDL cholesterol; this prediction was confirmed in a meta-analysis of randomised trials of red meat intake.

And what good does lower LDL do?

As described in the main text, in multiple large cohort studies with careful adjustment for smoking and other potentially confounding variables, participants with diets most consistent with the PHD have had reduced risks of many major health outcomes, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and total mortality.

"Adjustment" says it all.

This is so insidious.

The problem with Gary is thinking that Singletons are ok to write in the first place.

Prof Kay should speak like this more often, although I understand the reasons for his usual hard-line stance. The aggressive lambasting of "misguided" people on the internet detracts from his message amongst my friends.

Thank you for posting this video, it's a fantastic high level overview of the entire topic. I will translate this to Japanese, next.

It's unfortunate that Americans have to co-opt things such as diet with their zero-nuance political system. Let's not forget that they exported the lipid-heart hypothesis in the first place.

This IMHO is the main feature setting Google Maps apart from the FOSS maps. I wonder what the best way of getting it to be FOSS is? Is it getting the public transport companies to provide programmatic access to their scheduling?

'Natural' dye doesn't make any of those things any less ultra-processed.

As a result, he had to move out of the family home to a new geographic location and started using cannabis as a coping strategy. He began experiencing negative thoughts, his behavior became more erratic, and he started experiencing psychotic episodes.

I've heard other stories about cannabis usage being related to psychosis. Apparently there are different strains of cannabis and everyone responds differently to each, so it's not clear what effects it has on someone until they use it. Because of this, I've never had the courage to try.

If you disable TPM in your bios, W11 won't install, nor update if it is already installed.

From the conclusion, about removing the bias to saturated fats and recommending diets consisting of "healthy foods":

2. make the public aware that low-carbohydrate diets high in saturated fat, which are popular for managing body weight, may also improve metabolic disease endpoints in some individuals

Yes, and I would love to also know how would I go about doing this, as an individual.

but emphasize that health effects of dietary carbohydrate—just like those of saturated fat—depend on the amount, type and quality of carbohydrate, food sources, degree of processing, etc.

What health effects? Kind of a jarring statement to make after talking about going LCHF.

Thank you for the detailed writeup. The sheer scale of the harm that Ancel Keys has done and continues to do still beggars belief. I hope we sort this out sooner rather than later, but since corporate interests are involved in peddling sugar, I'm not optimistic.

If people with poor metabolic health (96% of all people) are carbohydrate intolerant, and carbohydrates and not a necessary nutrient, people should remove carbohydrates from their food!

Get your logic out of here!

What is so lazy about Python?