Hi,

If there are any french-reading persons here, they could be interested
in this:
http://www.lemonde.fr/aujourd-hui/article/2010/03/16/et-si-les-corps-gras-n-etai
ent-pas-mauvais_1320068_3238.html

Basically, it says that the official "french sanitary safety and food
agency"(AFSSA)
has upped its recommendation in order to say that up to 40% fat in a
diet is recommended in a diet.
In 2001, this was 35%.
In 2010, 35% is a minimum. As they stress out that there is no benefit
in reducing to less than 35% fat, since such a behavior generally lead
to eat more carbs, wich is not all good. (let me add: /duh!)
Saturated fat was to be limietd to 8% in 2001; this figure has gone up
to 12% in 2010.
They ask us to have more vegetable oil like canola and walnut, more
fresh fish with at least 1 fat fish  a week.

I will try and translate the sentence that is most important, I think:

"If back then, we used to say that all saturated fat acids were bad,
some of them named "small chain" or "medium chain" (such as the ones to
be found in butter and cheese) can have positive effects upon health"
(Jean-Luc Volatier, from Afssa)"

It's just funny to see them invent tapid water, isn't it?

One other way to looke at it, more reassuring, is that some simple
truth are being unfolded and the new figures are going to go in the
right directions, but slowly... :))  Slowly enough not to make people
think they had been mislead during decades :)

Huey