Posted on 12/23/2025 8:33:10 PM PST by Olog-hai
For more than half a century, Americans have been urged to shy away from saturated fats, found mainly in animal products. We have been told to cook with canola oil instead of butter, select skim instead of whole milk, and to fill our plates with pasta instead of steak.
Paradoxically, decades of adherence to this advice has coincided with rising levels of chronic disease. As people cut more saturated fat from their diets, the nation grew heavier and sicker — not healthier.
Put plainly, the war on saturated fat, rooted in the hypothesis that it causes heart disease, has never been based on sound science. In fact, a large and growing body of evidence reveals that saturated fats aren’t a menace but a key part of a healthy diet. And they should be recognized as such in national nutrition policy.
Fortunately, this long-overdue change now appears likely to happen next month. The federal government will soon release the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans — the nutritional blueprint that shapes everything from school lunches to hospital meals. Officials have finally signaled that they will lift the decades-old limit on saturated fat. This would mark a critical turning point.
The misguided crusade against fat began in the 1950s, when researcher Ancel Keys proposed a connection between saturated fat and heart disease. But in his seminal Seven Countries Study on the subject, Keys cherry-picked the countries that supported his claim and ignored others — like France and Germany — where people consumed plenty of butter and meat yet had low rates of heart disease. …
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Woody Allen movie Sleeper was far ahead of this.
Future people learned fats are good for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=485Em2JF34M
Humans gastrointestinal tract is designed to consume and digest animal fats.................
I remember that movie. Next thing we’re going to hear is how good tobacco is for us . . .
This is such BS. EVERYBODY knows meat is bad for you simply because EVERYBODY knows meat is bad for you.
Ie: my Mom has been a borderline diabetic for 55 years, wouldn't take " the cure". 85 this year sounding healthy today.
I don’t care two hoots and a holler about what they say i’m still going to eat this with some eggs and horseradish.
Hog jowl is the fatty cheek meat from a pig, prized for its rich flavor, often cured and smoked like bacon (sometimes called “jowl bacon”) but with a silkier texture, and used to flavor Southern dishes like collard greens, black-eyed peas, and beans, or fried for breakfast, while its Italian cousin is guanciale, used in pasta. It’s a staple in soul food, adding savory depth to soups, stews, and cornbread.
Saturated fat isn’t a bad guy? Trouble believing that. I gave up butter, cheese and other saturated fats many years ago and don’t miss them. Salt shaker is gone too. BP was excellent. Recently spent few days hospitalized with Vertigo, of all the crazy things I’d never even heard of before. Had a good chat with the head Dietician. My cholesterol is up again anyway, and they have me on Lipitor.
I HATE supporting BigPharma.
SuperWoman Complex, I guess.
You summed up the evidence well.
I eat lots of butter which is rich in C-15
Pentadecanoic Acid (C15:0), an Essential Fatty Acid, Shares Clinically Relevant Cell-Based Activities with Leading Longevity-Enhancing Compounds
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10649853/
I only eat chicken. Almost hate to do that . No pork because pigs have higher IQs than dogs and I’m never eating a dog. Cows were getting MRNA shots so I stopped eating beef. Don’t really miss pork and beef.
Wildcauught Alaskan salmon is terrific too.
The best diet is to eat a bit of everything.
This new finding is just more evidence that we really don’t understand the digestive process, so eat a bit of everything and let the body pick and choose what it needs.
I eat thunder and crap lightning.
Can weird science be settled? Yup, ask a lefty. Quack, quack.
Well.......I have read several times that nicotine inhibits Alzheimer's.
I have no plans to take up cigarettes. However, a nicotine patch might be just the thing.
... tobacco is good for us !
“Nicotine has been shown to stimulate nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the brain, which can lead to short-term improvements in cognitive functions such as attention, vigilance, and memory.”
Medicinal uses of tobacco in history
Anne Charlton 1
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1079499/
No....Tobacco is not good for us....But Marijuana is!!
Bring back lard or whatever fat they used for McDonald’s french fries!
There’s also nicotinic acid, aka vitamin B3.
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