The Fat-Is-Bad-For-You Myth
October 25th, 2013Via: Catalyst:
For the last four decades, dietary fat and cholesterol have been the villains in heart disease.
Dr Michael Eades
You very seldom see the words ‘saturated fat’ in the public press when they’re not associated with artery clogging. So it’s like it’s all one term – ‘artery clogging saturated fats’.
NARRATION
But now some medical experts are coming forward to challenge this medical paradigm.
Dr Jonny Bowden
I think it’s a huge misconception that saturated fat and cholesterol are the demons in the diet, and it is 100% wrong.
Dr Stephen Sinatra
Saturated fat has been vilified for years because of the cholesterol theory.
NARRATION
A multibillion dollar food industry has fuelled our phobia of fat and cholesterol and dramatically influenced our diet.
Dr Michael Eades
That’s not science. That’s marketing.
Dr Jonny Bowden
It’s lived past its expiration date, and it’s one of these hypotheses that just won’t die.
NARRATION
Have we all been conned?
Dr Maryanne Demasi
In this episode, I’ll follow the road which led us to believe that saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease, and reveal why it’s being touted as the biggest myth in medical history.
Related: British Cardiologist: Eat Butter
Research Credit: ojn
The low-fat diet was a real winner of a con job on people by the diet and medical industries, proven when you see old movies of ordinary Americans on beaches before the 1970’s: almost everyone was thin.
Wouldn’t Lions be obese and cows lean if eating fat made you fat…