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Did You Know Saturated Fats Are Actually Healthy?

April 28, 2008 |

Did you know that saturated fats are not bad for you, in fact, they might even be good. Hearing this probably goes against 5 decades of programing you have been fed by the media. You’ve always heard that saturated fats are bad, but before you click away from this article. Let me show you why they aren’t bad, and why they are actually healthy.

Back in the 1950s, a scientist by the name of Ansell Keys published a paper about why Western society was developing heart disease at an explosive rate. First you must understand Ansell’s paper was a hypothesis, and it still is today. Heart disease being caused by saturated fat is not a fact, and as you’re about to find out, not a very good hypothesis either.

The research Ansell did about saturated fats and heart disease was actually very flawed. For one, he only used data from small countries, and only use a portion of the stated that. Researches have gone back and looked through all the data that he used to come up with this conclusion. These researches found no link between heart disease and saturated fat. What they did find though, is a scientist who didn’t use the scientific method to come up with a load of crap which is now tossed around in society as fact. It also seems that after researchers went through the data, they have concluded he basically plucked the idea that saturated fat resulted in heart disease, out of midair. He didn’t take in any consideration of the countries smoking rates, sugar and refined carbohydrate intake, daily stress factors, how often people of this country’s exercise, and many other lifestyle factors that determine heart disease risk.

What is unfortunate is that for almost 50 years now people have stated his hypothesis is fact, when as you can see there is absolutely nothing factual about it.

Since the 1950s there been many studies trying to link saturated fat to heart disease. Most of these studies have failed to find any trace at all saturated fats lead to heart disease, and most of the studies that have shown any links to heart disease have been proven to be flawed as well.

One thing we do have though, is evidence that saturated fats may be good for us instead.

Did you know that there are countries in Africa were tribes eat raw whole milk, drink cows blood, and eat high fatty red meats. You know what, most of these things contain high levels of saturated fats. The problem is, most of these people are very lean and healthy and have absolutely no heart disease inside these tribes. But wait, I thought of saturated fats are what cause heart disease?

Well the answer that my friend is no.

What causes heart disease is trans fatty acids, also known as partially hydrogenated oil.

Next time you’re at the grocery store, or even now, go look in your pantry and almost every one of the items that you have will contain partially hydrogenated oil. French fries at every fast food restaurant are also fried in the stuff. This stuff is also known as margarine shortening.

Partially hydrogenated oil is very bad, it is actually a deadly, poisonous chemical that Western society seems to enjoy eating for some reason, and because of this we have a high rate of heart disease.

At the grocery store try to purchase your items as close to their natural state as possible. Look on the labels and make sure they don’t contain partially hydrogenated oil. My motto is always eat green and lean.

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