January 10, 2008 – IR Summary – The people in general believe that fat spoils health and causes heart disease. This aspect was realized in 1953. Dr. Ancel Keys had published an influential paper comparing fat intake and heart disease mortality in six countries: the United States, Canada, Australia, England, Italy, and Japan.

The Americans ate the most fat and had the highest death rate from heart disease; the Japanese ate the least fat and had the fewest heart disease deaths.

But while data from those six countries seemed to support the diet-heart hypothesis, statistics were actually available for 22 countries.

When all 22 were analyzed, the apparent link disappeared. The death rate from heart disease in Finland was 24 times than that of Mexico, although the fat-consumption rates in both the countries were almost the same.

What is the truth about fats and heart?

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

As per Dr. Mercola, a noted doctor, the subset of the low fat myth that persists to this day is the belief that saturated fat will increase your risk of heart attacks. In 2002 the "expert" Food & Nutrition Board gave the following misguiding statement: "Saturated fats and dietary cholesterol have no known beneficial role in preventing chronic disease and are not required at any level in the diet."

This is simply another myth that has been harming your health and your loved ones for the last 30 or 40 years, ever since Dr. Keys managed to convince the establishment that his unproven hypothesis was fact.

Low fat is actually quite good for the 1/3 of people who are carbo- nutritional types.

Scientific confusion

It relates to the fact that your body is capable of synthesizing saturated fats that it needs from carbohydrates, and these saturated fats are principally the same ones present in dietary fats of animal origin.
However, and this is the key, not all saturated fatty acids are the same. There are subtle differences that have profound health implications, and if you avoid eating all saturated fats you will suffer serious health consequences.

There are in fact more than a dozen different types of saturated fat, but you predominantly consume only three: stearic acid, palmitic acid and lauric acid.

It’s already been well established that stearic acid (found in cocoa and animal fat) has zero effect on your cholesterol levels, and actually gets converted in your liver into the monounsaturated fat called oleic acid.
The other two, palmitic and lauric acid, do raise total cholesterol.

However, since they raise “good” cholesterol as much or more than “bad” cholesterol, you’re still actually lowering your risk of heart disease.

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