Dietary intake of saturated fat NOT associated with cardiovascular disease

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[Health Impact News] It’s amazing how analysis of scientific studies regarding saturated fats and heart disease changes when one does not start out with the presupposition that “saturated fat is evil and causes clogged arteries and heart disease,” which has been repeated so many times over the past couple of decades that it came […]

Chewing The Fat: Exposing the low-fat diet myth, by Dr. Joe

by Dr. Joe
drjoetoday.com

It has become “settled science” that fat is bad for us. We hear it all the time. Yet despite the push for low fat diets and low fat foods from health authorities, the same authorities keep telling us we are losing the “war” on obesity and that rates of illnesses associated with […]

Saturated Fats are Good for You

by Dr. Mercola

Conventional medical authorities say that consumption of saturated animal fats is bad for you and causes heart disease.

But a hundred years ago, fewer than than one in one hundred Americans were obese, and coronary heart disease was unknown. The Procter and Gamble started marketing Crisco as a new kind of […]

The Truth About Saturated Fats, from a Cardiologist

Dr. Miller is professor of surgery, cardiothoracic division, Univ. Washington, and writes frequently for http://www.Lewrockwell.com. See his article, based on this presentation, here: Enjoy Saturated Fats, They’re Good for You!

Why You Should Feed Your Kids Chocolate for Breakfast

by Nadia Arumugam
Forbes
It’s not often that we discover a food we think of as decadent and indulgent, is actually good for us. This has probably happened less times than I’ve eaten all the spinach set in front me (clue: less than 5, more than 1). Two such examples that spring to mind are […]

Enjoy Saturated Fats, They’re Good for You!

Donald Miller is a cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. He is a member of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. In this presentation, he completely destroys the lipid theory of heart disease, proving conclusively that saturated fats are indeed healthy for us.

Beware of the carbohydrates and glucose of Aunt Bee’s pie says Barney Fife

Health Impact News Editor Comments: If you think the low-carb high-fat and high-protein diet is a recent dietary fad, think again! Watch this old clip from an Andy Griffith show where Barney Fife basically repeats the common dietary wisdom prevalent back in the 1950s and 1960s, that glucose and refined carbohydrates (such as Aunt […]

Denmark Wants to Implement Saturated Fat Tax

Will natural whole foods like milk be included in Denmark’s new saturated fat tax?

Health Impact News Editor comments: The Danish government apparently believes they know which foods are healthy and which foods are not, and are going to tax the foods they deem unhealthy. So while most of the rest of the world is […]

Low Carbohydrate High Fat Ketogenic Diet May Reverse Kidney Failure in People with Diabetes

Health Impact News Editor Comments:
Here we have yet another study showing the effectiveness of the ketogenic diet, which is a very strict diet that eliminates almost all carbohydrates and consumes very large amounts of fat, especially saturated fat. This diet has baffled those in the medical community for years, because of their presupposition that […]

Pregnant? Don’t Skip the FAT!

by KateTietje
Babble.com

Excerpts:

I know we live in a super low-fat culture. I know everyone is terrified that eating fat will make you fat (it won’t) and that saturated fat causes heart disease (it doesn’t; trans fat does). But the thing is, pregnancy is a time when you really need excellent nutrition. And there […]