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Record W1975470472 · doi:10.1525/gfc.2003.3.1.28

The Skinny on Fat

2003· article· en· W1975470472 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Susan Allport

Bibliographic record

VenueGastronomica The Journal of Food and Culture · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNursing
TopicFatty Acid Research and Health
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsObesityFood scienceOmegaChemistryMedicineEndocrinologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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This article looks at the experience that people around the world have had with fat and is a rebuttal to Gary Taubes' piece in The New York Times 'What if Fat Doesn't Make You Fat'. Taubes fails to distinguish between different fats in his lengthy article, essentially an apologia for the Atkins' diet. But only when we know the specific fats that people are eating can we draw consistent lessons about fat. The healthiest diets, as it turns out, the diets of the Inuit, Japanese, and Greeks, provide a rich amount of the essential omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, fats that are found in the photosynthetic membranes of plants, and in animals who eat those leafy greens. The least healthy diets, the diets associated with the highest rates of heart disease, diabetes and obesity, are rich in saturated fats and/or omega-6 fatty acidsand not so rich in omega-3s. Omega-6 fatty acids originate in the seeds of grains and nuts and are just as essential for human health as omega-3s. But once technology made it possible to extract these fats from corn, soy beans, and sunflower seeds, omega-6s have flooded the food supply and the human body and are now suspected of causing a long laundry list of unwanted consequences, including obesity. The key to a healthy diet is not its cholesterol content, as this trip around the world makes clear, nor its animal fat content, but rather its polyunsaturate content: a balanced ratio of omega-6s to omega-3s.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.115
Threshold uncertainty score0.399

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.262
Teacher spread0.248 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2003
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