I have never jumped on the low-fat bandwagon - I was deeply suspicious of it right from the start, and still am. How can anything 'man-made' be better than the good natural substances that our ancestors have been eating quite happily, and healthily for thousands of years?
What has changed?
What has radically changed in our diet overall is that whilst fat consumption has gone down, carb consumption has soared, and particularly processed carb consumption. Yes, some people still eat fatty foods, like chips, crisps et al, but the fat is eaten with carbohydrate.
Cooked breakfasts were blamed for cholesterol deposits, but if you really analyze the classic cooked breakfast - especially the 'greasy spoon' cafe types, they are constructed of cheap sausages which are probably mainly rusk - wheat, and soya with often as little as only 30% meat or less (and even that is of dubious quality), bacon, usually cured with sugar and laced with nitrites, etc., hash browns - potato and goodness knows what else, cheap battery produced eggs from grain-fed chickens who have never seen the light of day and who produce nutritionally-deficient anaemic yolks, baked beans - packed full of sugar and other rubbish, and if that was not enough, a round or two of toast.
Is it any surprise they are blamed? Guilty as charged.
Like I said, it's not the fats on their own but what they are eaten with that is the main problem. Of course those kind of foods cause problems - they are predominantly carb.
A REAL cooked breakfast, made with REAL food cannot conceivably create the same problems.
If fats were the issue then the Inuit and other cultures on a high-fat diet would have died out by now from heart disease, let alone been hale and hearty, full of energy, and able to withstand the extreme temperatures they live under.
Personally, I treat everything the 'experts' tell me with a pinch of salt. They think they know everything, yet they really know nothing at all. All our 'Western' diseases are escalating by the second. If they were THAT expert, we'd all be well. Every week yet another possible 'cure' potential is splashed across the news. Where do they all go???
Give me good old common-sense anyday.
PS. A good friend of ours was badly damaged by Statins. He lost his memory - didn't even recognise his wife. He's back with us now, but it was touch and go, and he still isn't right. Anyone who trusts drugs (and those who are nothing more than glorified drug-pushers) need their head examined in my view.
We get sick because we are enslaved to this Western diet, then we obediently trot along to the Doctor to get a 'pill to end all ills'. Sorry, they haven't got any this week - or any other for that matter.
Yes, I have to take some of their medication, but, like the others I have already dumped, my goal is to get off them completely.
