Meta-analysis evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease

American Society for Clinical Nutrition ^ | January 13, 2010 | Patty W Siri-Tarino, Qi Sun, Frank B Hu and Ronald M Krauss

[PeaceBeWithYou]

The source of the "Cholesterol is bad for you" came from a l9l3 Russian study on rabbits.

Cholesterol is a patch material your body manufactures when red bloodcells get damaged by cracked blood vessel walls.

Reduction of dietary Cholesterol actually stresses the body more because it will salvage it from tissue in order to patch those cracks.(Mr. Fit)

Now a real scientist would wonder what causes those cracks in the first place. IOW, what keeps blood vessels flexible and smooth, or what makes them harden and crack?

If the docs in Korea working on those l8-22 year old soldiers had asked that question instead of, "what is this stuff clogging these young arteries?", we wouldn't be asking it now. You see, those l8-22 year olds grew up in the lean years of the great depression. They didn't get something they needed.

What could it be? Think about it for a while I bet you can guess.

[csmusaret]

I have read that the healthiest cooking oil is coconut oil. It is also very expensive.

[toast]

Now I feel a bit better about the deep fryer I bought last week.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

It is, but you want to make sure it isn’t hydrogenated. There is no need to process it like seed or vegetable oils, it is good right out of the pulp, no toxins to cook off, no racidity to perfume and color away, etc.

[darth]

I eat almost no meat except venison and feral hogs. Last year I even added a roast beaver to the menu (the kind that build dams and eat trees, not the other kind that is normally for desert).

I have to add a bit of beef or pork fat to the Bambi-Burger and pork sausage to improve taste, but it is still a low fat product.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Coleus.

[Coleus]

yes, “metabolic syndrome” and we can also say, “syndrome-x”, “hperinsulinism”, “triglycerides”, and that processed sugars, carbohydrates, concentrated fruit sugar and those “natural foods inculding some fruit and vegetables” that are high on the glycemic index should be avoided.

[PA Engineer]

Agreed. I would say the government is culpable for this. There never was a scientific basis for a carbohydrate based diet. This is one of the continued nightmares of government “medicine” as adopted in the food pyramid during the Carter administration. This is also the time that the war on dietary fat began.