Saturated Fats Are Now Officially Healthy, (Again)

[tex]

(Though some doctors still refuse to accept the facts). Medical science is finally getting around to proving what many of us have always known - that there is nothing inherently unhealthy about saturated fats, and there is no reason why they should not be included in a healthy diet.

What I'm wondering is why they decided that saturated fats were unhealthy in the first place, and why it took them so long to correct their erroneous claims. They preached that BS for decades.

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/food/ar ... ated_fats/

The report cited in this article even suggests that "restricting fat intake is not without serious health consequences, such as escalating rates of obesity and diabetes". That implies that the medical community's faulty advice on this issue may have caused a heck of a lot of misery, for many people, over the decades.

Tex

[mbeezie]

Tex,

Here are a few more articles on the subject. Refined carbs are the culprit, not fats.

http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nu ... a-analysis

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstrac ... 08.26285v1

Tex, what are your thoughts on the change in fatty acid profiles of grass fed vs corn fed meat. A few years ago I heard someone from TAMU Meat Science Dept. talk about Conjugated Linoleic Acid and it's health benefits (found in greater quantity in grass fed vs corn fed beef . . . I think that's what he said).

Mary Beth

[ant]

Dear Tex

Great info

The conflicting viewpoints of dietary specialists on the matter of fat can be like a ping-pong game. One carried out over decades, and still going

Lets hope medical researchers and professionals learn to keep an open mind on all issues. We all know clinical judgements have to be taken today with whatever information and research is available, but let they be taken with a wise humility that all is not yet known.

(And let it also be known that people are becoming less and less naive with regard to the varying influences of "big farmer" and "big pharma" on food and drug policies).

Best, Ant

[tex]

Mary Beth,

Yep, those Aggies like to get down to the nitty-gritty of food chemistry. I wish I knew more about that area of science, but I do know this:

Similar to humans evolving on a diet of paleo foods, the ancient ancestors of cattle did not develop their digestive systems while eating neolithic food/feed, (namely grains). They evolved on a diet of grass and forbs, and they would never have developed 4 stomachs, if they had evolved on a grain-based diet. In fact, grains cause all sorts of digestive system problems for cattle, which have to be carefully monitored by feedlot operators, who supplement their diet as necessary, in order to minimize those issues. It doesn't take much thought to recognize that the flesh of grass-fed cattle will more closely resemble the flesh of paleo period ungulates, since grain-fed cattle are eating an unnatural diet, by definition. The amino acid profile of the protein in such beef would obviously have to be significantly altered, from the natural configuration of grass-fed beef.

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/79/6/1207S

Even Dr. Mercola has jumped on the Conjugated Linoleic Acid, (CLA), bandwagon.

http://www.mercola.com/beef/cla.htm

Thanks for the links,
Tex