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Not really. I think the reason those words have those connotations to begin with is because we start learning pretty much as soon as we can read that saturated fat is awful, unsaturated fat is good. If conventional dietary advice was "avoid polyunsaturated ("bad"" "bad") fats and use saturated ("good") fats as much as possible" then our perception would be different.

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Not really. I think the reason those words have those connotations to begin with is because we start learning pretty much as soon as we can read that saturated fat is awful, unsaturated fat is good. If conventional dietary advice was "avoid polyunsaturated ("bad"" fats and use saturated ("good") fats as much as possible" then our perception would be different.