Fatty acid found in palm oil linked to spread of cancer
I don't really trust this kind of science reporting. The link to the nature article doesn't even link to it for me: <a href="https://10.0.4.14/s41586-021-04075-0" rel="nofollow">https://10.0.4.14/s41586-021-04075-0</a>, the real link is: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04075-0#citeas" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04075-0#citeas</a><p>I also cannot access the study on SciHub, but one should keep eyebrows raised with alarmist reporting like this.  Palmitic acid is in everything.  Ask questions like:<p>1. What's the strength of effect? Is it 50x more likely to see metastasis? 15%?<p>2. Is the diet a <i>realistic</i> diet? Are the mice or rats eating a significant amount more of palmitic acid than what would be reasonable in a human participant?<p>3. How does the mouse model differ from humans?<p>4. What are the systemic effects?  People don't eat fatty acids alone, they eat them as (ideally) part of a diet composed of whole foods.  Might the effect hold in a realistic diet with more palmitic acid?<p>... and so on and so forth.  Without access to the actual article and some folks' willingness to critically look at methodology, this kind of writing just encourages people to draw simplistic conclusions about incredibly complex systems.