To put that in more practical terms, we want to know what would happen if the population at large started consuming vegetable oils and
abandoned traditional animal fats.
During the sixty - year period from 1910 to 1970, the proportion of
traditional animal fat in the American diet declined from 83 percent to 62 percent, and butter consumption plummeted from 18 pounds per person per year to four.
Modern - day diets high in hydrogenated vegetable oils instead
of traditional animal fats are implicated in causing a significant increase in heart disease and cancer.
They're eating more sugar and using vegetable oils for cooking, rather than
traditional animal fats.
Emu oil is
a traditional animal fat derived from the Dromaius novaehollandiae - a large, flightless, and rather funny - looking bird native to the vast, arid lands of Australia.