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The War On Saturated Fat

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Is it time to end it?

Yes. Next question?

When you’ve lost the LA Times…

[Update a few minutes later]

“When saturated fat got mixed up with the high sugar added to processed food in the second half of the 20th century, it got a bad name,” noted UC San Francisco pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig. On the question of which is worse — saturated fat or added sugar, Lustig added, “The American Heart Assn. has weighed in — the sugar many times over.”

Yes. Also, eating fat doesn’t make you fat. Two of the most damaging nutrition myths are that you get cholesterol build up from eating cholesterol, and you get fat from eating fat. Both are based on the primitive “you are what you eat” theory. Stop counting calories, eat things that are good for you (which include saturated fat) and avoid things that are bad (grains and sugar).

3 thoughts on “The War On Saturated Fat”

  1. Wow, it’;s only taking, what, 40 years for them to figure this out? I thought the science was settled?

    “You are what you eat” is indeed a myth regarding cholesterol and fat. I never believed that a low carb (and thus higher fat) diet could lower cholesterol because I believed those myths, only to see my own cholesterol plummet to an unmedicated “excellent” when I had to go low carb.

    However, I can think of one way “you are what you eat” holds true; a lot of politicians eat a hell of a lot of nuts…. 🙂

  2. I have a very protein based diet, though I don’t go paleo, I do make a point of having meats make up at least 1/3 of my calories, which means lots of fat.

    I would measure my body stats against anyone my age or younger who doesn’t have a specifically physical job.

    It’s not just diet, it’s also genetics, they always ignore that, unless you are a disgustingly fat pig, which has no genetic trait selecting for survival, but Eh, use what you can’t define dieticians.

  3. My diet consists of, “the heathiest meal is the one you crave the most.” After a lifetime of eating diverse meals, your body give signals and your brain interprets them to tell you the most prefered method of achieving the goal set by your body. It’s not holistic, it’s just experience, engrained.

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