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Wondering what most of you think about sat fat. The media complex has turned most folks completely against and run away as fast as possible at the sound of the word fat.
This is in fact mass media again gone wrong in my view. Saturated fats in moderation(key here, sensible), are indeed healthy. This is a very touchy subject with some folks, as they are so ingrained against fats.
Fighting the dogma surrounding these fallacies is a tough job. It is hard being a "voice in the wilderness" so to speak, many folks call you every name in the book. But, it is equally fun when in the long run, you are proved correct.
Innovations and advancements are made by folks who are out in front of the pack. These are indeed the ones I choose to follow.
So, without further ado, here is a start on the saturated fat debate from my perspective......an excerpt from one of my favorite researchers, Dr. Douglass.
The "American Paradox?"
I've spent a good chunk of the last thirty years debunking the notion that saturated fat (specifically, fat derived from animals) in the diet leads to increased rates of coronary heart disease - an absurd assertion that the politically correct, yet medically ignorant mainstream media has been trumpeting for an equally long spell. As usual, the boob-tube-and-byline pundits have got it all wrong...
Yet they'll likely not spill one drop of ink reporting on studies that point to saturated fat as a boon to the heart-healthy, not the scourge the headlines routinely portray it to be.
A study published in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition, flies directly in the face of some of the fat police's most widely-cited research: A 1959-1971 Finnish mental hospital study which seemed to show that a diet high in saturated fat (in this case, an institutional diet which was no doubt also sky-high in refined carbohydrates and sugars) correlated to an up to 65% greater incidence of coronary heart disease among test subjects than did a diet higher in unsaturated fats.
But in this research, an American study of post-menopausal women with heart disease, saturated fat in the diet proved to be associated with a LESSER progression of the disease than did higher consumption of "healthy" unsaturated fats. Higher fat intakes in the study were correlated with favorable trends in both HDL (good) cholesterol and harmful triacylglycerol levels. In other words: Hated saturated fats effectively slowed down heart disease.
To refresh your memory, saturated fats are those that remain solid at room temperature (like animal fats). They are also a major component of healthy cells, the preferred fuel for the heart and muscles, powerful antiviral and antifungal agents, and serve as cancer-fighting genetic "regulators" in the body. Why didn't you already know these things (if you haven't been with me for a while)? Because our fat-phobic, animal-rights obsessed mainstream media wouldn't report on it if it were the cure for cancer...
Since this under-reported study used today's "gold standard" evaluative method (quantitative angiography) to derive its results, it poses a direct challenge to less precise prior research - as well as to the misguided popular assumption that saturated fat in the diet drives heart disease. Now that we Americans are finally starting to realize the heart-healthy, waistline-trimming benefits of a higher-fat, low-carbohydrate diet , it will be interesting to see whether this "American Paradox" will get any play at all in USA Today, Time magazine or on the evening news...
I'm not holding my breath.
This is in fact mass media again gone wrong in my view. Saturated fats in moderation(key here, sensible), are indeed healthy. This is a very touchy subject with some folks, as they are so ingrained against fats.
Fighting the dogma surrounding these fallacies is a tough job. It is hard being a "voice in the wilderness" so to speak, many folks call you every name in the book. But, it is equally fun when in the long run, you are proved correct.
Innovations and advancements are made by folks who are out in front of the pack. These are indeed the ones I choose to follow.
So, without further ado, here is a start on the saturated fat debate from my perspective......an excerpt from one of my favorite researchers, Dr. Douglass.
The "American Paradox?"
I've spent a good chunk of the last thirty years debunking the notion that saturated fat (specifically, fat derived from animals) in the diet leads to increased rates of coronary heart disease - an absurd assertion that the politically correct, yet medically ignorant mainstream media has been trumpeting for an equally long spell. As usual, the boob-tube-and-byline pundits have got it all wrong...
Yet they'll likely not spill one drop of ink reporting on studies that point to saturated fat as a boon to the heart-healthy, not the scourge the headlines routinely portray it to be.
A study published in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition, flies directly in the face of some of the fat police's most widely-cited research: A 1959-1971 Finnish mental hospital study which seemed to show that a diet high in saturated fat (in this case, an institutional diet which was no doubt also sky-high in refined carbohydrates and sugars) correlated to an up to 65% greater incidence of coronary heart disease among test subjects than did a diet higher in unsaturated fats.
But in this research, an American study of post-menopausal women with heart disease, saturated fat in the diet proved to be associated with a LESSER progression of the disease than did higher consumption of "healthy" unsaturated fats. Higher fat intakes in the study were correlated with favorable trends in both HDL (good) cholesterol and harmful triacylglycerol levels. In other words: Hated saturated fats effectively slowed down heart disease.
To refresh your memory, saturated fats are those that remain solid at room temperature (like animal fats). They are also a major component of healthy cells, the preferred fuel for the heart and muscles, powerful antiviral and antifungal agents, and serve as cancer-fighting genetic "regulators" in the body. Why didn't you already know these things (if you haven't been with me for a while)? Because our fat-phobic, animal-rights obsessed mainstream media wouldn't report on it if it were the cure for cancer...
Since this under-reported study used today's "gold standard" evaluative method (quantitative angiography) to derive its results, it poses a direct challenge to less precise prior research - as well as to the misguided popular assumption that saturated fat in the diet drives heart disease. Now that we Americans are finally starting to realize the heart-healthy, waistline-trimming benefits of a higher-fat, low-carbohydrate diet , it will be interesting to see whether this "American Paradox" will get any play at all in USA Today, Time magazine or on the evening news...
I'm not holding my breath.
