The thought is that eating foods that contain saturated fat and
dietary cholesterol lead to elevated blood cholesterol levels, which is bad for health.
Not exact matches
We are very fortunate that in the last few years, the coconut oil producing countries have begun to wake up and not take for granted that the American view on
dietary oils, which states that saturated fats are bad and increase
cholesterol levels
leading to heart disease, is true.
This new study and many other previous studies clearly contradict the propaganda espoused by Big Pharma and the U.S. Government
dietary advice, which has been waging a war against saturated fats since the 1970s and the McGovern Report that promoted the false hypothesis that saturated fats
led to an increase in lipid
cholesterol levels and an increased risk for heart disease.
It is suggested by the 2010
Dietary Guidelines that eating 1 whole egg each day doesn't
lead to increased blood
cholesterol levels and it's recommended that people consume less than 300 mg of
cholesterol each day on average.
In 1978, Sri Lankan's were consuming coconut oil as their main
dietary fat and had the lowest death rate from ischemic heart disease in the world.26 «All available population studies show that
dietary coconut oil does not
lead to high serum
cholesterol nor to high coronary heart disease mortality or morbidity rate,» concluded American and Filipino researchers in 1992.27
``... the disturbing story of nutrition science over the course of the last half - century looks something like this: scientists responding to the skyrocketing number of heart disease cases, which had gone from a mere handful in 1900 to being the
leading cause of death by 1950, hypothesized that
dietary fat, especially of the saturated kind (due to its effect on
cholesterol), was to blame.
This disastrous misinformation is based on the radical change in government
dietary policy promulgated by Ancel Keys, a scientist who rose to become a
leading authority on heart disease,
cholesterol and saturated fats in the 1950s.
The rest of the good news is that one study found that replacing 20 % of
dietary calories with almonds
led to improved markers of insulin sensitivity and lower
cholesterol levels.
Dietary cholesterol in foods does not
lead to cardiovascular disease.
Health practitioners should bear in mind, that restricting
dietary cholesterol puts a burden on egg intake and
leads to the avoidance of a food that contains
dietary components like carotenoids and choline.
To do so would be to admit that such
dietary advice, and the
cholesterol lowering drugs that have earned them hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars, have been a scam and have
led to increased rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
The authors go on to explain that the lipid theory of heart disease started by the work of Ancel Keys in the 1960s
led to
dietary beliefs that
cholesterol was to be avoided in the diet, and with that belief came the «over-zealous prescription of
cholesterol - reducing medications over the same decades in which there has been a parallel rise in AD prevalence.»
This
led to the development of
dietary guidelines limiting consumption of
cholesterol, saturated fat (below 10 %) and fats in general.