Saturated Fat To The Rescue
CategoriesFurther to the post "BUTTER VERSUS MARGARINE" here is more on this much maligned subject...as usual it's all about profits and not much about health. But of course health is a good pretense to meet the bottom line!
See also: Low-Fat, High-Carb Diet for Morbidly Obese
Chris Gupta
-----------------------The "American Paradox?"
I've spent a good chunk of the last thirty years debunking the notion that saturated fat (specifically, fat derived from animals) in the diet leads to increased rates of coronary heart disease an absurd assertion that the politically correct, yet medically ignorant mainstream media has been trumpeting for an equally long spell. As usual, the boob-tube-and-byline pundits have got it all wrong
Yet they'll likely not spill one drop of ink reporting on the latest in a long string of studies that point to saturated fat as a boon to the heart-healthy, not the scourge the headlines routinely portray it to be.
The new study, published in a recent issue of the Journal of Clinical Nutrition, flies directly in the face of some of the fat police's most widely-cited research: A 1959-1971 Finnish mental hospital study which seemed to show that a diet high in saturated fat (in this case, an institutional diet which was no doubt also sky-high in refined carbohydrates and sugars) correlated to an up to 65% greater incidence of coronary heart disease among test subjects than did a diet higher in unsaturated fats.
But in this latest research, an American study of post- menopausal women with heart disease, saturated fat in the diet proved to be associated with a LESSER progression of the disease than did higher consumption of "healthy" unsaturated fats. Higher fat intakes in the study were correlated with favorable trends in both HDL (good) cholesterol and harmful triacylglycerol levels. In other words: Hated saturated fats effectively slowed down heart disease.
To refresh your memory, saturated fats are those that remain solid at room temperature (like animal fats). They are also a major component of healthy cells, the preferred fuel for the heart and muscles, powerful antiviral and antifungal agents, and serve as cancer-fighting genetic "regulators" in the body. Why didn't you already know these things (if you haven't been with me for a while)? Because our fat-phobic, animal- rights obsessed mainstream media wouldn't report on it if it were the cure for cancer
Since this under-reported study used today's "gold standard" evaluative method (quantitative angiography) to derive its results, it poses a direct challenge to less precise prior research as well as to the misguided popular assumption that saturated fat in the diet drives heart disease. Now that we Americans are finally starting to realize the heart-healthy, waistline-trimming benefits of a higher-fat, low-carbohydrate diet (thanks to the late, great Dr. Atkins and others), it will be interesting to see whether this "American Paradox" will get any play at all in USA Today, Time magazine or on the evening news...
I'm not holding my breath.
Extracted from Jan. 17, 2005 William Campbell Douglass, M.D. Newsletter archived at: http://www.realhealthnews.com/ddlist.shtml
posted by Chris Gupta on Friday February 4 2005
updated on Saturday September 24 2005URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2005/02/04/saturated_fat_to_the_rescue.htm
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