You've probably heard for a long time, even from health professionals, that saturated fat is a bad thing.
Did you know that this has never been proven? You will now learn why these fats actually can be beneficial.
With all the incorrect beliefs about fat, you might find this surprising.
Recently a large publisher actually tried to get the word out about saturated fat and its positive effect on health.
The publication was Men's Health magazine where a lengthy article was published about the deficit and research surrounding saturated fat.
It also talked about new scientific efforts that demonstrate why it is better than anybody thought before.
This article shows a lot of studies that explain what has gone wrong with thinking, concerning saturated fat.
Here is a summary of some of the important facts from this article.
The most notable part of the article exposed out that the dangers of fats originated as a mere hypothesis and have never been proven.
Over 50 years ago a scientist named Ancel Keys blames heart disease on dietary fat.
Unfortunately the study was flawed because its underlying data was inadequate.
A review of his study demonstrated that there was no correlation between this from heart disease and fat intake.
Another problem with the study was that he didn't consider other factors such as smoking, stress, exercise, and other influences of lifestyle.
So the conclusions of his study were basically made up.
This was confirmed by further studies.
The question can then be asked, is there evidence that shows that fat is good.
The answer is yes there are a few examples.
Scientists point to some tribes in Africa who have diets consisting primarily of whole milk red meat and blood of cows.
In spite of their consumption of fats, these tribes were found to have very low levels of body fat and a very low prevalence of heart disease.
Some critics of this study the health of the native tribes is genetically linked.
This assertion is not true because as these tribes men developed to eat more modern diets day began to develop the same health problems as the rest of us.
This same scenario has also been confirmed among Pacific Island countries.
Again, when the people adopted a more modern eating habits, they too developed health issues.
A little-known fact is that while LDL cholesterol levels are increased through saturated fat, HDL cholesterol (which is good) increases even more, so your ratio is improved.
The three types of assets associated with saturated fat are stearic, palmitic, and lauric.
Stearic is the kind of acid is found in cocoa and animal fat.
This kind of acid has been shown to have no detrimental effect on heart health.
In fact your liver breaks this acid into the same kind of substance of which olive oil is composed.
HCL cholesterol levels increased with the consumption of lower acid.
Undo, but is deficient in many American's diets.
This kind of acid is also being evaluated because it might improve the functioning of the immune systems of people with HIV.
Lauric acid is commonly found in tropical oils.
The other primary component of saturated fat is palmitic acid which has also been shown to increase good cholesterol.
Now we know that blaming saturated fat for heart disease, what really causes the problems? Here are a few real causes of heart disease: o trans fats o refined vegetable oils o excessive refined sugar o stress o smoking o sedentary lifestyle The Hutu and question remains as to why so many people want to blame saturated fat.
It could be because of the marketing interests of the billion-dollar vegetable oil industry.
You might be skeptical that commercial interests might intentionally promote harmful diets in order to make profits.
But this is probably true.
This does not mean however that you should eat fat in excess.
With most things balance is necessary.