From Nigel Olliver
Congratulations to Jon White for an excellent article examining the mixed health benefits of saturated fat (2 August, p 32).
However he seems to have missed a further meta-analysis. It was noted that Japanese people on a low-fat diet experienced a low incidence of heart disease, as did the French who enjoyed a high-fat diet. Yet the British, Americans and Australians on a medium-fat diet suffered a high incidence of heart disease.
The conclusion must be that speaking English is bad for you.
Darwin River, Northern Territory, Australia
