Is saturated fat bad?

September 11 2016 by in About membership, Saturated fat

Low carb works great for weight loss and type 2 diabetes reversal. But won’t eating all that saturated fat clog your arteries and kill you? That’s what we used to be told – though lately even very conventional and mainstream experts have started to doubt it.

So what’s the real story? We asked six of the top low-carb doctors in the world to give their quick and spontaneous answers, and made the video above (transcript).

Here are the doctors in the video:

  0:15 Dr. Ted Naiman
  1:18 Dr. Peter Brukner
  2:00 Dr. Jason Fung
  4:21 Dr. Cate Shanahan
  5:42 Dr. Eric Westman
  6:39 Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

What did you think about it? Do you have any other question that you’d like answered in a similar video? Feel free to let us know in the comments below.

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15 comments

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Susan Aycock
September 11 2016
This is a very interesting video. I am really enjoying your website and am learning as much as possible. Type 2 diabetes runs on both sides of my family and I want to avoid that from happening to me. I have been following a LCHF diet since June 1 of this year and have lost 25 pounds to date. It is very slow for me but I didn't gain all my weight in a few months so I'm trying to stay positive and keep at it. I do notice that I don't have cravings and before I started this process I could have eaten my body weight of rice in a week! .... And probably did many times over!!!! Thankfully I can now be with my friends and eat my food as they have their French fries, baked potatoes, rice, bread, pizza, frozen yogurt treats and lots of desserts and have no cravings whatsoever. I would never have believed that was possible for me. I look forward to seeing what the future holds with a LCHF diet. Thank you Dr., Thank you so much!
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Cindy C
September 12 2016
This was in today's news on the role of sugar manufactures pointing to saturated fat, and away from themselves.

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/study-reveals-sugar-industrys-at...
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Elaine Lynn
September 14 2016
Life is about choice and I have one to make that I could use advice on. My butcher sells three grades of beef: "grain-fed" (cheapest), "grass-fed, grain-finished" (medium priced), or "purely grass-fed" (priciest). I'm willing to pay what I must but don't have money to burn. Does any one of your experts have a feel for what "grain finished" does to the quality of the fats and other nutrients found in the beef? Is it closer to eating feedlot beef or pasture beef?
Thanks for all the great work you're doing!

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Reply to comment #3 by Elaine Lynn
bill
September 15 2016
Nora Gedgaudas has a graph showing the
relative Omega3 to Omega6 over time for
a cow in a feedlot. As I recall, it is about
linear over 180 days, though the total O3
or O6 is only about 5% or less of total cow
fat. Other bad things
that happen in grain fed animals, I'm not
an expert on. But Peter Ballerstedt is. He
has a couple of Youtube presentations
that you might watch.
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Reply to comment #3 by Elaine Lynn
Apicius
September 15 2016
Elaine, ask the butcher for "throw away" products, like bones and chunks of fat. You be surprised how much free or almost free high quality grass fed soup bones and chunks of high quality fat (for frying) you can get and that they were going to throw out anyway. Free range eggs fried in high quality grass fed fat is cheap and very healthy.
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miranda
March 7 2017
I went with your LCHF diet but I hadn't really lost weight after about two months. I drank a lot of water, little carbs (potatoes, pasta, almost no sweets, no soda, no Sugar, little alcohol) But I saw a video here somewhere (can't find it again) where dr. Jung says that if you are overweight you shouldn;t add extra fat. I don't really think I'm overweight (75 kg and 168 tall), but maybe that's the reason I 'don't lose weight. But how should you eat then? I make coffee with a little cream, oopsies with real butter, meat/vegetables baked in butter (love it). I don't really consider that too much. And once a day about 100 g greek yoghurt 10 % fat. I don't have cravings anymore, sleep well so that's working. But what now??
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Parker
May 17 2017
Greek yoghurt has a ton of sugar in it, which would mitigate the effect of a LCHF diet. Remember, the nutrition labels often don't say the nutrient content per container, but per tbsp
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EMER COYLE
June 20 2017
HI TO EVERYONE ON THIS TEAM SITE !!!
I HAVE STARTED THIS LCHF ONLY A WEEK NOW. REASON I FOUND IM GOOD AT EXERCISE AND FOUND SUGAR FOODS CREEPING INTO MY DIET ( CHOCOLATE, CRISPS , ANYTHING!! ) I WAS NEVER INTO SWEET FOOD BUT IT STARTED GETTING INTO MY HEAD THAT I NEEDED IT. INSTEAD OF GOING ON A KILLJOY AND TRYING TO CUT IT OUT I HAPPENED TO COME ACROSS LCHF ON LINE AND AS I STARTED READING I FOUND MYSELF GETTING MORE INTERESTED.
1 WEEK AND I HAVE HAD THE HEADACHES, THE DIZZY SPELLS , NOT RELAXING FEELING ANXIOUS ABOUT COMMITTING TO A DIET. BUT AS I READ MORE ITS A LIFE CHANGE I NEED AND WITH MODERATION I THINK THIS WILL WORK WELL FOR ME. IM NOT A FAN OF CARBS SO THIS IS WHY IT HAS APPEALED TO ME.
I WEIGHED MY SELF AND FOUND I PUT ON EXTRA POUNDS BUT HAVE NOTICED MY BODY CHANGING WHICH I ALSO TOOK MEASUREMENTS.. MY LEARNING FEAR IS THE FATS AND TYPE OF FATS I HAVE SEEN LOADS OF YOUR VIDEOS BUT A RECENT ON LINE REPORT 19/6/2017 HAS SAID COCONUT OIL IS NOT GOOD FOR US TO CONSUME. CAN YOU PUT MY MIND TO REST AS I HAVE BOUGHT A CONTAINER AND NOW AFRAID TO USE
THANKS FOR EVERYTHING SO FAR .....
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Atmane
July 25 2018
Hi dear Ketogenetic friends . I have been in Keto diet for 02 weeks now. But I made a blood test found my fasting sugar 112ml. I have never been a diabetic and always exercise I eat a little carb before I star Keto after keto I totally stopped carb and sugar.
my question is part of side effect to have high level of blood sugar when starting KETO? I never suffer of Blood sugar.
Please let me know what went wrong with my situation?
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Roger Kaplan
August 27 2018
It would be great if you could include interviews with qualified doctors/researchers who hold more mainstream views as well. The fact that six lo-carb doctors are going to say saturated fat is good, is sort of preaching to the choir and doesn't really help us make informed decisions.

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twilliams579@btinternet.com
September 22 2018
If saturated fats are not responsible for clogging arteries and the high rates of people dying from coronary heart disease - then what is?

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Reply to comment #11 by twilliams579@btinternet.com
Gentiann
September 24 2018
May I suggest reading the blog of Dr Malcolm Kendrick : he wrote a serie called "what causes heart disease ?"
You may find your answer there.
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Reply to comment #10 by Roger Kaplan
Lori Miller
January 20 2019
"Mainstream views" are, by definition, out there are easy to find.
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Reply to comment #3 by Elaine Lynn
Lori Miller
January 20 2019
Look on eatwild.com for a farmer or rancher near you. Their prices might be far cheaper than those of your butcher.
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Fredson Bowers
February 17 2020
My cholesterol and triglyceride levels improved dramatically after 4 months of heavy consumption of saturated fats. It’s likely the carbs clogging up people’s arteries and causing the current public health disaster.

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