“The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice.”
Note the word “Malpractice”. That is why your nice doctor that you swear by has to be VERY CAREFUL as to what they recommend for you, for if they go ‘off script’, they risk losing EVERYTHING they worked so hard to obtain, which is their career.
So who writes “the script”? Well, it’s the only entity involved in the medical world that cannot be sued - and so not doctors, not hospitals, not medical groups, not even insurance companies, but...the US Government. They write “the script” and everything flows down from them. If a doctor is sued for causing people to die from complications due to low Cholesterol (due to Statins), for example, the doctor (or, more likely, his insurance company) simply points to the “Federal Guidelines” and case-closed, the doctor is cleared. But if the doctor deviates from those ‘guidelines’, he’s fair game for lawsuits, even if his results are far better.
I use Coconut oil instead of butter and for frying.
This visualization of inflammation is very powerful. I would like to see side-by-side graphs of the dramatic increase in type two diabetes and the low-fat craze of the 1980s and 90s. Probably very comparable.
McDonald’s, for example, used to use animal fat for its french fries. They were either shamed or banned from doing it, but it might have been healthier than what they use now. Portion sizes were much smaller also.
I remember my mother saving bacon grease, and using it for cooking other things such as eggs. That was back when the USA obesity rate was a tiny fraction of what it is today.