YOUR
HEALTH
Fat foolishness revealed
Fat foolishness revealed
We have since 1977 been told by the medical establishment
and ‘researchers’ that animal fat – in meat and dairy products -- is harmful if not
deadly – causing hardening and narrowing of arteries, other heart disease
and leading to obesity and all the ills those extra pounds produce.
Time magazine, however, has revealed the truth
in its June 23, 2014 cover story.
Put simply, we have been mislead for over 35 years due
to sloppy, poor science and half-truths.
Sloppy research
Dr. Ancel Keys in the 1950s and 1960s suggested that the
high rate of American heart disease and deaths was due to clogged arteries
caused by cholesterol build up and that red meat and dairy products were to
blame. He advocated based on his studies, the Mediterranean diet. He used data from southern Italy to show that
the people there had far fewer heart attacks than Americans, and attributed it
to their diet: fish, nuts, fruits and vegetables and olive oil-- which has monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs).
The
problem with his research, as Time points out on page 32, is that he
ignored the data from some Greek islands with the same diet but high heart
disease rates, and excluded from his study French and German diets which were
high in meat and daily and alcohol (wine or beer) but both the French and the
Germans had the same low rate of heart disease as the southern Italians. The French and Germans and some Greeks were simply left out of the ‘evidence’
database and the fallacy of the superiority of the Mediterranean diet was born.
More
importantly we now know that meat and dairy products not only produce LDL
cholesterol but an almost equal amounts of healthy HDL cholesterol – so it
balance out as zero. (p.34)
Moreover,
recent laboratory analysis has found there are 2 types of LDL particles – those
that are large and fluffy and that
easily pass through the body, and a
smaller, sticky particle form of LDL that seems to be the type that settles and adheres to the
walls of arteries.
Meat
and dairy contain just the fluffy, harmless LDL. It is carbohydrates – bread and pasta – that
have the small, sticky particle type LDSL. (p.34)
Finally,
the fact people seem to have been gaining weight across the board for some 30
years despite the significant reduction in meat and dairy consumption and the
proliferation of low-fat foods, has led
to the realization that the brain’s feeling of satiety or “I have had enough to
eat, thank you.” is not triggered by either low-fat or artifically sweeted foods
and drinks. Only real, 100% saturated
fat (and 100 real sugar) triggers this brain cessation signal. (p. 35)
Put
simply, the misguided efforts to make people healthier with low fat and
non-saturated fat diets has failed because it misunderstood how
the body and the brain work and what triggers satiety.
A
glass of homogenized, whole 100% milk
will make you feel full and satiated while almost no amount of skim milk will
do the same.
Sugar
vs. artificial sweeteners, we have recently learned, is the same situation.
So
we have been eating more and drinking more and ingesting lots of unnecessary
calories – leading to weight gain – by avoiding saturated fat meat and whole
fat dairy products!!!
So
here is my advice.
Whether
you believe in the Bible or Darwinian Evolution, humans have been fruit, berry,
nuts and vegetable eaters from the start, soon thereafter we became wild game
and domesticated animal eaters – both meat and dairy products. And finally, we
added agricultural grains as last.
Our
teeth attest to our omnivore biology which is part of our human
genetics and history.
So
eat fruits, berries, nuts and vegetables and meat and dairy in their
natural, high saturated fat forms, and include fish and fowl and grains.
A
balanced diet of all food groups is the key, and be
sure to get enough saturated fat and real sugar to have your brain signal it is
satisfied and you can now stop eating.
You taste buds and figure will love you for it.