It's not a matter of Any Old Kind of Fat is good. I think that it is an issue of the quality. You need essential fats. Mixing some of the beneficial ones with lots of the so-so or dangerous ones - what would be the point? You are overloading your poor liver.

Seems like in all things, we humans lurch from one extreme to the other. For a while, a high-carb, low-fat diet was recommended by the various dietary authorities. Some people benefited from this kind of regimen because they had consumed large quantities of fat, esp. bad fats, for so long.

But then they overdid the high-carb, low-fat thing and began to suffer all sorts of deficiencies.

So then the Traditional Diet gurus (Weston Price Gang, etc.) come along and say, hey, fat is good for you!

Well, yes it is. The right kind and the right amounts.

I hope that the pendulum will cease its demented swinging, and will soon settle in the center.