YOUR HEALTH
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.