CBS sings the praises of fat (!)
This is pretty cool. CBS News, one of the biggest news programs in the world, just questioned whether fat is really bad (of course it’s not). They also interviewed Gary Taubes and the writer of the cool cookbook “Fat”. Can you feel the paradigm shift going on?
Jennifer McLagan & Gary Taubes = Skinny as rails
Gordon Tomaselli = A wee bit on the chubby side!
"a moderate amount of animal fat"
marrow on TOAST
"we've been eating animal fats for 10.000 years"
"excess in anything is bad for you (...) maybe the key (...) is moderation"
MAN LOOKING DECIDEDLY DEAD TALKING ABOUT HEALTHY EATING
I know, I'm picky...
This moderation bs is still a remnant of the typically American (but unfortunately much more widespread) puritanic tendency.
Anybody looking to be entertained for a bit should read the comments on CBS's site for this video/article. Should I feel bad that I'm laughing at some of those people? I can't help it when I read things like "The saturated fats and cholesterol in animal fats are off the charts - the bad WAY outweighs the good. People are living longer because of Lipitor and high blood pressure medication..."
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8601-3445_162-57328292.html?assetTypeId=41...
Steve
I can't do it. I'd rather not have my mood soured.
You´ve got a point about the supply of butter ;-)
But on the other hand it would be fabulous - not ony for Oprah self - if she finally find out what really works. She is a powerfull woman!
But you are correct in that far too many people try to pass them off as proof instead of recognizing that they are just data, which may show correlations that require further study. It is so aggravating to see the AHA rep refer to them in an attempt to dismiss the evidence in support of fat in the diet. It's the same thing we often see here from some of the occasional vegan visitors who assume that we never heard of The China Study.
@Milton, #17. So true.
I'm not not talking about the content of the ingested fat -- not the fat, or the saturated fat, or cholesterol.
I'm talking about what's already in our bodies' fat stores. When someone like me tries to lose a lot of weight, I will be burning up a lot of my stored fat, which presumably contains a lot of fat-soluble vitamins.
Is it possible that rapid weight loss -- in other words, rapid fat burning -- will dump too many fat-soluble vitamins into the blood stream? And then when you add in the fat-soluble vitamins in the ingested fat, you're getting a lot of vitamins very quickly.
And some fat-soluble vitamins are toxic in excess. Can't that be a problem in a fat-based weight loss diet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver#Physiology