In , jean and bill wrote:

It ain't the fat, it's the carbs. See:

http://tinyurl.com/p7kc

One argument they propose:

Against Asians eating more carb and less fat having lower rates of heart
disease:
Jean/Bill proposes that these carb-eating Asians get more strokes and
pancreatic cancer and thyroid cancer.

I would say that heart disease is a much bigger killer and even more so
a much bigger cause of big-ticket medical bills than strokes, and that
pancreatic and thyroid cancers are far down the list of causes of death.
Heart disease is a greater cause of death in the USA than all cancers
combined, and about half of all USA cancers are attributrable to cigarette
smoking. After smoking related cancers comes (probably out of order, but
still more significant than thyroid and pancreatic cancer) a

*Colon-rectum cancer, with higher fat intake largely believed to slightly
favor this

*Breast cancer, with slight positive correlation with being overweight and
with never (I don't know which of these two) giving birth or breastfeeding
(A fact used by anti-abortion forces to suit their agenda)

*Skin cancer, with the more common types associated with total sun
exposure and with most of the deadlier ones having positive correlation
with severe sunburn

*Prostate cancer, which normally progresses slowly at first and is
easily treatable for a while after being detectable and the main cause
seems to be having a prostate and not dying of something else before a
cancer gets a chance to develop in the prostate

*Lung cancer caused by radon, depending on the source of information.
Note that buildings have accumulated more radon in the past 15 years than
they did prior to the early 1970's, and also that lung cancers attributed
to radon (as well as ones to various particles such as asbestos) are
widely claimed to occur more in smokers and recent-smokers than in
longtime non-smokers (smokers' lungs retain particles that non-smokers'
lungs expel since the lungs' "sweeping cells" are paralyzed in smokers'
lungs).

- Don Klipstein )