Let them eat Fat

This article is.... typical. I think typical is a good word.
The author urges people against falling into a "fat obsessed" way of thinking about food. He thinks we're too terrified of it and that all health people want you to eat are "twigs and leaves" (aka salad).

I don't know that that's really true of the dietetics profession. Or the USDA. They recommend up to 30% of your daily calories from fat, but recommend that you eat less saturated fats (animal or coconut) (<10%) and no trans fat. It's just because the research is very clear that those two fats raise cholesterol and lower your good blood lipids. They promote heart disease.

Anyhow, in this article, the author mentions that the Mediterranean diet has recently been proven a good heart, healthy diet and it is relatively high in fat.  So we should go ahead and eat all the butter and fatty goose and cheesecake and lard and steaks we want!

The problem is: NONE of these foods are part of the Mediterranean diet. None of them.

Mediterranean diets are high in mono- and poly-unsaturated fats. Olive oil. Seeds. Nuts. LEAN meats (they do have low levels saturated fat in them) and fish (which can offer you anti-inflammatory Omega-3's).

The Mediterranean diet is also high in FRUITS and VEGETABLES and WHOLE GRAINS.

That doesn't exactly sound like a steak cooked in lard to me.  I'm not saying you'll die if you eat butter every now and then.  Or that whole fat dairy products will kill you.  I'm just suggesting that we should carefully choose the types of fat that make up the majority of fat in our diets.