Like a child stealthily replacing a half-empty ice cream container back in the freezer, the mainstream medical establishment is increasingly admitting saturated fat does not contribute to heart disease or risk of heart attack... THREAD
This review article was recently published, and follows the 2019 Annals of Internal medicine meta-analysis which suggested low to no evidence of red meat contributing to cancer or heart disease.
academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance…
The truth is there was never any credible scientific evidence linking saturated fat (commonly found in animal foods) with heart disease.
Seventy years of nutritional gaslighting started with Ancel Keys and the fiction that cholesterol was inherently harmful, and corollary that we must replace ancestrally appropriate animal-derived fats with industrially refined seed oils. Absurd. @saifedean
For a highly comprehensive explainer on decade long debacle, read this article series by @ProfTimNoakes excellent article series to learn more thenoakesfoundation.org/news/ancel-key…
In fact there is probably no one man on earth who has done more damage to public health (while intending the opposite) than Ancel Keys.
As I write in my piece The Corruption of the Human Diet, the saturated fat/cholesterol heart disease narrative has been sustained for far way past its used by date. How?
rootcausemd.substack.com/p/the-corrupti…
By a an unholy partnership between the Industrial Food Complex hocking toxic seed oils and Big Pharma hocking statin medications. Both industries rely on demonizing dietary saturated fat and cholesterol, and by extension the low-density lipoprotein (LDL).
It is a profitable business to tell people they should eat industrial waste (cottonseed oil, etc.) then prescribe medications to offset the harm done to cardiometabolic health through a lifetime consumption of these products.
Before someone bandies epidemiological data 'proving' the benefits of polyunsaturated oil consumption, consider the empirical reality of us clinicians who treat patients and see objective markers of metabolic health (and subjective health) improve with removal of these oils.
This thread is simply another round about reminder to rid yourself of any vestigial guilt for eating egg yolk or the fat on your steak.
Rid your life of seed oils, embrace animal fats and thrive on having a micronutrient surplus of fat-soluble vitamins and cholesterol.
I'll leave you with the conclusion of this most recent study.
SFA = saturated fat
CVD = cardiovascular disease
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