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And yet the rates of CVD and CHD continue to rise....
And yet the rates of CVD and CHD continue to rise....The DASH diet recommends no more than 6% of calories from sat fat. The pritikin diet red meat no more than once a month and zero dairy, American heart association and British Heart Foundation and other reputable diets 10% cals from sat fats. They can't ALL be wrong.
Did you see what I posted for you today?The DASH diet recommends no more than 6% of calories from sat fat. The pritikin diet red meat no more than once a month and zero dairy, American heart association and British Heart Foundation and other reputable diets 10% cals from sat fats. They can't ALL be wrong.
With the best of intentions its nigh on impossible to get enough people to eat a consistent diet of either high or low saturated fat for three decades and then compare the two groups.You can do it with rodents because they have to eat what they're given and can't sneak off to Maccy Ds for a double cheesburger (unless they escape). But then the argument will always be "but they're rodents not humans".So how can you know whether saturated fat has suddenly become safe for us? You would need epidemiological evidence over many decades and that, so far, shows the opposite.As fat became available in the UK after the war, cardiovascular problems increased. Later, towards the turn of the century they began to decrease again with the advent of statins. (with or without side effects.) I take my cue from the Blue Zones which have very little sat fat in their diets and very little diabetes or cardiovascular disease. Anyway I am not about to become a guinea pig for some tenuous unproven theory. Sat fat contains no essential nutrients not widely available so why eat it? 80% of diabetics die of cardiovascular disease. I see that as a reason to be extra careful.Did you see what I posted for you today?
Edit to add.. Oh yes they can..
With the best of intentions its nigh on impossible to get enough people to eat a consistent diet of either high or low saturated fat for three decades and then compare the two groups.You can do it with rodents because they have to eat what they're given and can't sneak off to Maccy Ds for a double cheesburger (unless they escape). But then the argument will always be "but they're rodents not humans".So how can you know whether saturated fat has suddenly become safe for us? You would need epidemiological evidence over many decades and that, so far, shows the opposite.As fat became available in the UK after the war, cardiovascular problems increased. Later, towards the turn of the century they began to decrease again with the advent of statins. (with or without side effects.) I take my cue from the Blue Zones which have very little sat fat in their diets and very little diabetes or cardiovascular disease. Anyway I am not about to become a guinea pig for some tenuous unproven theory. Sat fat contains no essential nutrients not widely available so why eat it? 80% of diabetics die of cardiovascular disease. I see that as a reason to be extra careful.
80% of diabetics die of cardiovascular disease. I see that as a reason to be extra careful.
The damage done by diabetes to the cardiovascular system remains, as does the damage done by smoking. This is one of the reasons imo to be extra careful and also one of the reasons to doubt this "new" information about LDL and cardiovascular mortality. The damage done by high LDL is done over a period of about 30 years so there is not much point in looking at people's LDL levels immediately before death and drawing conclusions from that.But you no longer have diabetes? The ND cured you remember?
The PURE study is exactly what you are looking for I have linked to it for you before.
Whatever you do please don't go down the seed oil route in your desire to avoid sat fat (which is of course impossible as anything with fat in it contains Sat, Mono and Poly thy are a trinity). I think you'll find there is plenty of evidence that those are not good for us whatever the WFPB advocates may say.
I would argue that it shows nothing of the sort. But as you say no-one knows.. its all "associations" and "mays" as I say I prefer to think that a food that mankind has eaten for millennia is probably not harmful whereas seed oils introduced over the past few decades are far more likely to be culprits in the avalanche of CVD and diabetes. You pays yer money and takes a guess like everyone else.So how can you know whether saturated fat has suddenly become safe for us? You would need epidemiological evidence over many decades and that, so far, shows the opposite
Dr Keith Runyan wondered along that line too...So how can you know whether saturated fat has suddenly become safe for us?
You mean like the con Ancel Keys pulled with his cherry picked results that led people to fear sat fat in the first place?
He did live be 100 years old I wouldn't criticize his personal diet too much!
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