Ever since the 1950's when Ancel Keys declared that eating
dietary fat actually lead to obesity and heart conditions people have
been on a real low-fat kick. It is common knowledge that a low fat diet
rich in grains and veggies is good for your whole body and most
definitely heart healthy. Bad thing is, this is a bunch of poppycock and
I don't mean the popcorn snack.
This widespread idea that eating fat causes people to become fat was invalidated by Keys' himself in the actual study that we used to validate the opposite. Confused yet? Well let's clear it up. The study, that included 22 countries, was trying to draw a conclusion that there was a link between eating fat (especially saturated fat) and heart disease, high cholesterol and later went on to include cancer. Whew! That's a lot of bad stuff, right? Well seven of those countries, with high fat diets, did in fact have high incidence of heart disease. The thing that isn't told is that more of the countries that ate large amounts of fat actually had less heart disease than countries that didn't eat fat.
His theory was disproven right there on the spot. So how did we come to still believe his original views? Because he tossed out the rest of the study and only gave the information that went along with what he had been trying to prove. He COULD have looked closer into the diets of those seven countries to see what they were eating in common that may have been causing the heart disease- since the data didn't link it to eating fat. He didn't. He instead started the most ridiculous and harmful thinking that he could have. His bias,
towards his personal view, took center stage and he relayed incorrect information. WE could have then looked at that information and saw that it was skewed/ incorrect and ignored it or deemed it downright wrong. Instead, we decided to pretend it was true and make it the gospel as far as health and nutrition is concerned. The end result- replace healthy butter and whole dairy fat with margarine, man made hydrogenated and or partially hydrogenated oils and low fat knock-offs; make people afraid to eat meat and fat from real food; make the food pyramid reflect that people should eat 11-12 servings of grain per day (it actually said you should eat more grain than vegetables!). Doctors and medical associations began to force this diet onto everyone with an issue of high cholesterol, heart disease or obesity. People still didn't seem to lose weight. The fact is the world, especially the United States, actually began to gain higher rates of obesity. We're now one of the fattest countries in the world.
The blame -for being a fat country- is squarely placed on the people and not on the flawed information that we have been taught to follow. It is now proven that there, in fact, NO correlation between pure saturated fat intake and heart disease or high amounts of bad cholesterol. The actual information points toward the unhealthy hydrogenated oils, margarines, trans fats and grain for high levels LDL or bad cholesterol and heart disease. Tricky huh?
Too much of anything can be bad for you and that is just my opinion,(not scientifically proven) but fearing fat and eating these science experiments being paraded as food will only hinder health. Don't be fooled any longer and/or endanger your life and health by sacrificing vitamins that can only be found in meats, fatty fish or healthful saturated fats like pasture raise meats, lard, tallow, ghee, fish oil, raw pastured butter organic virgin coconut oil. The brain desires fat for function and will suffer without it. The easiest way to do this without feeling deprived is to just eat little to no processed food and eat as much whole food, as close to its original form as possible. I would say limit grain as well, but that's another article altogether.
This widespread idea that eating fat causes people to become fat was invalidated by Keys' himself in the actual study that we used to validate the opposite. Confused yet? Well let's clear it up. The study, that included 22 countries, was trying to draw a conclusion that there was a link between eating fat (especially saturated fat) and heart disease, high cholesterol and later went on to include cancer. Whew! That's a lot of bad stuff, right? Well seven of those countries, with high fat diets, did in fact have high incidence of heart disease. The thing that isn't told is that more of the countries that ate large amounts of fat actually had less heart disease than countries that didn't eat fat.
His theory was disproven right there on the spot. So how did we come to still believe his original views? Because he tossed out the rest of the study and only gave the information that went along with what he had been trying to prove. He COULD have looked closer into the diets of those seven countries to see what they were eating in common that may have been causing the heart disease- since the data didn't link it to eating fat. He didn't. He instead started the most ridiculous and harmful thinking that he could have. His bias,
towards his personal view, took center stage and he relayed incorrect information. WE could have then looked at that information and saw that it was skewed/ incorrect and ignored it or deemed it downright wrong. Instead, we decided to pretend it was true and make it the gospel as far as health and nutrition is concerned. The end result- replace healthy butter and whole dairy fat with margarine, man made hydrogenated and or partially hydrogenated oils and low fat knock-offs; make people afraid to eat meat and fat from real food; make the food pyramid reflect that people should eat 11-12 servings of grain per day (it actually said you should eat more grain than vegetables!). Doctors and medical associations began to force this diet onto everyone with an issue of high cholesterol, heart disease or obesity. People still didn't seem to lose weight. The fact is the world, especially the United States, actually began to gain higher rates of obesity. We're now one of the fattest countries in the world.
The blame -for being a fat country- is squarely placed on the people and not on the flawed information that we have been taught to follow. It is now proven that there, in fact, NO correlation between pure saturated fat intake and heart disease or high amounts of bad cholesterol. The actual information points toward the unhealthy hydrogenated oils, margarines, trans fats and grain for high levels LDL or bad cholesterol and heart disease. Tricky huh?
Too much of anything can be bad for you and that is just my opinion,(not scientifically proven) but fearing fat and eating these science experiments being paraded as food will only hinder health. Don't be fooled any longer and/or endanger your life and health by sacrificing vitamins that can only be found in meats, fatty fish or healthful saturated fats like pasture raise meats, lard, tallow, ghee, fish oil, raw pastured butter organic virgin coconut oil. The brain desires fat for function and will suffer without it. The easiest way to do this without feeling deprived is to just eat little to no processed food and eat as much whole food, as close to its original form as possible. I would say limit grain as well, but that's another article altogether.
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