Surprise, surprise! Today a Reuters article appears citing a “new” study that shows no link between saturated fat and heart disease! Of course there is no clear link between saturated fat and heart disease. There never was any link in the first place .. the research has either been mistakenly or intentionally misinterpreted since the 1950′s (my bet is on intentional misrepresentation given the amount of money the edible oil industry has made in the past few decades by demonizing butter, eggs, and other saturated fat sources). See my blog on “The Untold Story of Butter” just last week.
My diet is about 50-60% saturated fat on any given day, and I’m the same weight at 45 years old as the day I graduated high school. If I followed the recommendations to reduce my saturated fat to next to nil, I would weigh about 40 lbs more easily – maybe more. I’d probably have all kinds of hormonal issues too. Glad I didn’t pay any attention to those ridiculous recommendations over the years to avoid saturated fat. Hope you aren’t paying attention either. The only way to know the truth about what to eat these days is to look backwards at what our ancestors ate when there weren’t many overweight people and degenerative disease didn’t exist. Eat this way, and you are sure not to be scammed by the media messages that say one thing in one decade and the opposite the next. Oh, by the way, I eat ALL the fat around my steaks too .. just like Grandpa the butcher who lived to be 97. Lean meat is for sissies … and sick people.
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
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Don't you just love the recommendation in the article to keep saturated fat in the diet to a minimum despite the fact that this "new" study shows no link between saturated fat and heart disease. Why might the article say this? Well, if you don't eat saturated fat, what will you eat? Grain based carbs of course (you crave sugars/grains when you don't get enough saturated fat in the diet, by the way). Don't want to hurt all those Big Food companies' profits that are making all those cheap snack foods that folks who don't eat any saturated fat can't get enough of!
"Lean meat is for sissies"–you crack me up! I'm going to use that one. LOL Great post!! I'm 50, weigh 115 lbs and also eat 50 to 60% calories from saturated fat. You are so right–no hormonal issues now.
Paula, you clearly put women decades younger to shame! Good on you for spreading the word about the insanity of eating lowfat and how it leads to nothing but excess weight and hormonal problems, particularly for women. We gals have to stick together!
Have you always eaten the fat around your steaks. My parents used to MAKE me eat it when I was a kid and now I have a huge aversion to it…the texture kills me…any advice on getting over the texture issue
No, just started eating the fat around the steaks about 10 years ago when I discovered the fraud that is lowfat eating. Don't have any advice on the texture issue. Perhaps you could get more meat fat into your diet by soaking up bacon drippings with a piece of sourdough bread and then frying it up. That is quite delicious!
The link to that article doesn’t seem to be working so here are two:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/05/28/us-milk-grass-fed-cows-idUSTRE64R5GY20100528
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/02/04/us-fat-heart-idUSTRE61341020100204?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FhealthNews+(News+%2F+US+%2F+Health+News)
These are SO good! Why aren’t the docs jumping on this!?!?!?!
Hi Sara, I’m so glad to see you have got so many things right and are recommending delicious sat fat back into the diet. I was however disappointed to see you recommending toxic grains should still be eaten. With all their anti-nutrients, phytic acid, gluten and inflammation causing substances I’m amazed anyone would even consider eating them. Even soaked and sprouted the toxic load is dangerous and just not worth the very dubious benefits of ingestion in my opinion. Keep up the good work tho..
Hi Sarah! I’m loving your posts. I’ve been overweight all my life, dieting eating lowfat and all kinds of nonsense because that’s what my mom bought and taught me. When I got pregnant with my first child I really had a reality check when I started researching what I was REALLY putting into my body. Long story short I threw out the fake crap and haven’t looked back. The only problem I have–I don’t LIKE much meat. I love beans and lentils and legumes and fruits and veggies. I’m married to a skinny Nepali who LOVES all meats (except beef of course) and who has taught me the yummy joy of chicken bones. But how do I get more sat fat when I really don’t like it’s natural forms? I eat chicken and fish 3-4 times a week, can’t remember the last time I ate beef or pork, and eat mutton when my hubby makes his curries. So aside from the daily butter I slather on my toast and whole milk for my coffee and cereal, I’m not eating much more saturated fats. What to do?? Oh by the way, I’m not what anyone would call skinny, but I now lose weight without trying just by making healthy choices with REAL foods. Thanks!
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