Why would you not believe the “saturated fat attack” story

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Fat is such integral part of our diet; yes, it is also one of the most discussed items on our food list. Which fat is good, which is bad; would eating this fat in one meal make a difference?

Have a look at this article by the Weston Price Foundation, I hope it’ll answer your questions.

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The American Indians could teach us much about food and staying healthy

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Read this article! I cannot recommend it enough!

It makes us think about our health and plays havoc with what we learned in school, from institutions about how and what we should eat.

Why is it that native American Indians generally are, and stay, healthy, unless they change to our Western Diet? The reason is not only that they didn’t eat refined and preserved food; they lived mostly off meat and fat.

Here is the first paragraph for you. If you decide to read the full story, please click here!

The hunter-gatherer’s dinner is front page news these days. Drawing from the writings of Dr. Boyd Eaton and Professor Loren Cordain, experts in the so-called Paleolithic diet, columnists and reporters are spreading the word about the health benefits of a diet rich in protein and high in fiber from a variety of plant foods. It’s actually amusing to see what the modern food pundits come up with as examples of the “Paleolithic Prescription.” Jean Carper offers a Stone Age Salad of mixed greens, garbanzo beans, skinless chicken breast, walnuts and fresh herbs, mixed with a dressing made of orange juice, balsamic vinegar and canola oil. Elizabeth Somer suggests whole wheat waffles with fat-free cream cheese, coleslaw with nonfat dressing, grilled halibut with spinach, grilled tofu and vegetables over rice, nonfat milk, canned apricots and mineral water, along with prawns and clams. Her Stone Age food pyramid includes plenty of plant foods, extra lean meat and fish, nonfat milk products, and honey and eggs in small amounts.

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Do you avoid eating fat just to be healthy?

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Are you still confused about fats and which ones to avoid? Well, you’re not alone. I came across this article and found it to be easy to read and understand. Below, I have copied the first few paragraphs for you. Have a read.

For many years we have been told over and over again that fat is unhealthy, and most people actually do believe it. Therefore, in an attempt to be “healthy,” many people avoid eating fat.

When I work with clients who claim they eat “healthy” I always ask them to explain what that means. The typical responses I hear are:

“I never eat fatty red meats, only chicken or fish once or twice a week.”
“I don’t use butter or eggs because I’m watching my cholesterol.”
“My doctor told me to use margarine to avoid the heart disease that runs in my family.”
“I’m trying to lose weight so I count fat grams, and buy everything fat-free.”

I have to give my clients some credit because they are simply doing what they have been told to do. The only problem is that what they have been told to do just doesn’t work. In fact, the clients I see who eat lowfat diets are usually the most unhealthy people that I work with. They typically suffer from symptoms of depression, fatigue, anxiety, mood swings, hypoglycemia, insulin resistance, constant and insatiable hunger, gall bladder problems (gas, bloating, “acid-reflux,” loose stools), hormonal imbalances, and even lack of menstruation in young women. Women on lowfat diets especially complain that their hair is dry and brittle and falls out easily and their skin is dry and wrinkly. And, as crazy as it sounds, they almost always want to lose weight!

Even though most people on lowfat diets don’t feel healthy, they still believe that somehow avoiding fat will make them healthier. The medical community, junk food industry and the media have done an incredible job convincing the American public that fats are bad for us. Fats have been blamed for everything from clogging our arteries to causing cancer. And fats are definitely the most popular scapegoat for our national health obsession—obesity!

If you’re interested in reading the full story, please click here!

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But What If Bacon Is Actually Good For Us?

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“Sizzling Bits about Nitrites, Dirty Little Secrets about Celery Salt and Other Aporkalyptic News.

“Neal Barnard, MD, head of the Physicians Committee for (Ir)Responsible Medicine, tried to round up an army of vegans to protest a Bacon Festival in Iowa last spring, but succeeded in recruiting only six volunteers. Why so few? Probably fear of bacon! Not fear of death by bacon, which is what Dr. Barnard hoped to fuel with anti-meat rhetoric and billboards of skulls and crossbones, but vegan fears of succumbing to the lure of bacon itself! Bacon’s smell and taste are so seductive that many vegetarians fear it as “the gateway meat.”

But what of those health risks? What about all that fat, cholesterol and sodium? And what about nitrites? It’s not just vegans after all who warn us against bacon. Recently, the Harvard School of Public Health announced with great fanfare that just a small daily serving of red meat would increase our likelihood of death by 13 percent, while a little bacon, hot dog, sausage or other processed red meat every day would kill us off 20 percent faster.^“

These are the first two paragraphs of the Weston Price Foundation‘s article. Despite having been published in 2012, the article is as valid to day as it was then. Did you know that bacon contains vitamins, and not only that but that it makes us happy?

To read the full article, please click here.

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Good Fats, Bad Fats: Separating Facts From Fiction

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Health professionals’ advice about which fats to eat are have changed over time; many of us are confused. Should we eat margarine, or should we eat butter? Which oil should we eat and which should we not?

Christopher Masterjohn, Ph.D. takes a solid look at studies done, and advice given over the years, in this article published by the A. Weston Price Foundation.

“Few driving factors have had such a profound influence on the transition from traditional to modern industrial diets as the campaign against animal fats and tropical oils. We have responded to this campaign not only by depriving ourselves of the nutrient-dense animal foods so important to human health, but also by replacing these traditional fats with processed foods laden with refined vegetable oil, flour, and sugar.

Since its inception, this campaign has been based on a series of myths. These include the myths that saturated fat is the “bad fat” while polyunsaturated fat is the “good fat,” that arachidonic acid is the “bad fat,” and that so-called “solid fats” are empty calories with no nutritional value. We will consider each of these myths in the pages that follow. Continue reading …..

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