It took 10 years for former Radio Talk show host Dean Edell to get the government to admit it was wrong. Somehow Doctor Edell, who lives in San Francisco and is a liberal politically, managed to make it through medical school without losing his critical thinking skills and the need to question authority.<\/p>\n
One of his recurring opinions was that the cultural desire to avoid saturated fats would turn out to be a big mistake. Much of his adult life he was a vegan, and in retrospect realizes he significantly damaged his son’s health by imposing his choice on his children. Growing children need animal protein. If they don’t get it, they need a very carefully controlled diet that forces them to eat legumes. <\/p>\n
What he pointed out is that the words satiated and saturated are similar for a reason. A saturated fat is one that is solid at normal temperatures. Unsaturated fats like corn oil are a liquid at body temperature. Cholesterol is fat that came from an animal – including cheese, eggs, milk, butter. All cholesterol is saturated fat, some plant fats are saturated.<\/p>\n
What careful controlled studies concluded:<\/p>\n
“There is insufficient evidence from prospective epidemiologic studies to conclude that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD, stroke, or CVD.\u201d<\/p>\n
In fact, it is not a coincidence that removing saturated fats happened at the same time America developed an “obesity epidemic” and a “Diabetes Epidemic”. Saturated fats satiate you. When you start to eat something with animal fat, you quickly go “whew, I’ve had enough!” and stop eating. Replace that fat with vegetable oil that you don’t even realize is there (or even worse sugar or complex carbohydrates) and you keep eating. Fat contains 9 calories per gram – that is totally unrelated to the type of fat.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Government finally realized they are killing our children with bad non-science compulsory diets at school based on emotion and “common sense” like that dished out by Oprah and Dr Oz. Sodium intake (salt) turns out also to have negligible effect on heart disease. Inelastic blood vessels cause high blood pressure – high blood pressure does not cause inelastic blood vessels. The American Heart Association “Heart Healthy” diet was not based on science – it was based on its ability to get their logo on restaurant menus to raise money by scaring them. The road to hell is paved with Good Intentions.<\/p>\n
Egg Yolks are a very important source of vitamin D, and an ample supply of cholesterol is necessary in your blood to synthesize Vitamin D, probably the most important thing you need to maintain a strong immune system and bone strength. Vitamin D is crucial to the use of Calcium in the body.<\/p>\n
Another of Dr Edell’s points was that using sun screen causes more cancer than it prevents. The best source of vitamin D is uV sunlight hitting your skin. Supplements are better than nothing, but if you block sunlight using sunscreen – while you might prevent some skin cancer, your crippled immune system can’t fight off the cancer cells that constantly form in everyone and are quickly destroyed by an active immune response. Lack of uV light is also behind Seasonal Affective Disorder, which is now treated by using uV lamps in the winter.<\/p>\n
So let’s get back to cooking with lard and frying potatoes in beef tallow. Do it for the children.<\/p>\n