Review shows saturated fat is neutral with regard to health
Is butter bad for you? What about other saturated fats? Probably not.
According to a recent review of a large number of observational studies, only trans fats are associated with heart disease. No other type of fat – including saturated – showed any link to heart disease:
The results showed that people who eat a lot of butter or other saturated fats don’t get heart disease more frequently than people who avoid foods containing saturated fat.
- The Telegraph: No link found between saturated fat and heart disease
- Mail ONLINE: Saturated fat ‘ISN’T bad for your heart’: Major study questions decades of dietary advice
- NPR: Don’t Fear The Fat: Experts Question Saturated Fat Guidelines
This study confirms previous studies that show that saturated fat is neutral when it comes to your health. Government guidance and health warnings against eating butter and other foods that contain saturated fat can’t be supported by the balance of the evidence.
Is it time for this guidance to end?
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Quote from Charles: ") It's important to keep in mind that this meta-analysis only looked at heart disease. I think saturated fat's role in heart disease has been exaggerated and misunderstood, but we also can't forget that most foods high in saturated fat are problematic for other reasons (i.e.: processed meats increase colorectal cancer risk, most foods high in saturated fat do not contribute fiber to the diet, the role that L-carnitine, a compound in red meat, plays in promotion of heart disease, etc.)
Okay we have a logic problem here i.e. the study and issue is saturated fat but Charles says high consumption is a problem due to L-carnitine which is created from proteins. What does this have to with saturated fat? Nothing.
He says that high saturated fatty food lack fiber. So what? People will naturally pair it with fiber to make a meal. Is Charles suggesting that monoeating is the only healthy kind of meal? The point is irrelevant.
Third, since when is fiber a necessary nutrient? Is there any evidence putting high carb high fiber diet versus a "zero" carb ketogenic zero fiber diet? No. There has never been a single study of fiber versus no fiber or carbs at all. NOT A SINGLE STUDY! So Charles has no basis whatsoever to claim that fiber is necessarily beneficial. That is the science or lack thereof period.
Quote: "2) This study still does not discount the fact that monounsaturated fats (almonds, pecans, olives, avocados) confer many health benefits."
1. Most of the fat in meat is monounsaturated.
2. Nuts and Tropical Oils fruits contain many fiberous irritants, goitergenic compounds, and PUFAs which confer create an rather large antinutrient load and increase glycation. Sorry, but the supposed benefits of these cultigens cannot be a good argument for their replacement of the natural human diet's source of monounsaturates i.e. animals consider animals don't have those drawbacks.
Quote: " As long as we have this dichotomy of "saturated vs. unsaturated" fats, we'll always have this battle. In reality, we need to start having a "processed vs. unprocessed" fat conversation. "Unsaturated" fats include everything from the fat in avocados (great!) to the fat Doritos are fried in (not good)"
No, we need start having a conservation about rancidity of plant oils and stability of animal fat compounds.
The reason avocados are great is because evolutionarily those plants are mimicking the fat profile of the animals of the area but they still want to kill you cause they are plants and they are not your friends. In terms of evolution the human to plant relationship is like Plant=Toxin Factory so humans used plants for hormedic effect aka as medicine until a great lack of animal foods (megafauna die off) forced some of us human into a plant breeding program to reduce the number of toxins so that these new "artificially cultivated" plants had their antinutrient and toxic load reduced enough to to be barely nutritional positive over starving and thus the creation of agriculture,slavery, overpopulation, etc.... all in service of the "culture" of the cultigens.
I could talk about the plant based "cults" err cultures...but we don't have all day. Plants are not natural human food but they can be powerfully therapeutic if used correctly in small amounts. Plants are the smartest and meanest creatures on earth but the stupid humans are to egocentric to "think" like a plant does.
Quote: " 5) Remember that whole, plant-based foods contain many compounds (minerals, phytonutrients) that are great for heart health."
All of which are inhibited by the antinutrient toxin load like chelated compounds, phytic acid, trypsin inhibitor, lectin, oxalate, tannins, etc... which means that the absortion factor reduces the the available nutrient concentration to something that is far below almost all animal foods. Unless you know exactly how to prepare a plant-based "food" via fermentation, cooking and pairing with the right animal fats, know the right time to eat them i.e. backloading etc... you aren't doing yourself any good eating pounds and pounds of plants which is only way to get the calories you need to survive from plants alone.
It's so much easier to just go meat-based keto and use a small to moderate amound of plants for extra flavor.
Todays plants are not natural human foods. They are cultigens which are far from "natural" and it is the plant-based human cultures of agriculture to overproduce plants that what has created the cruelty toward towards animals by driving them off their natural grazing and hunting lands, imprisoning in dense urban compounds, and forcing to them to live on unnatural plant based diets.
Plant Based Cultures are the first human CAFOs that treat the plant sicken humanity like the grain sicken cattle we eat because we believe that suppose to grow plants and eat them and we keep doing until all the top soil is destroyed and the civilization collapses.
The more plant-based a society gets the faster it dies just like the more carbs you eat the faster your proteins glycate, deteriorate your myelin sheaths your NS, age you and make you mentally crazy like Charles and Carb Insane.