Did you know that your body produces 80% of it's own cholesterol? Dietary intake only accounts for around 20% It's a fallacy that eating foods with high amounts of cholesterol leads to high cholesterol, just like it's a fallacy that eating high amounts of fat makes you fat. Also, the ratio of good (HDL) to bad (LDL) is more important in predicting heart disease than the overall cholesterol level.
Did you know there was an 88 year old man in a nursing home who ate 30 eggs a day for 25 years? He was about 6'2" and 185 pounds and seemed healthy as a horse. When he was discovered ivy-league trained medical researchers from around the country descended upon him to try to figure out why he hadn't died of a heart attack. They did all his blood work and it all came back normal. They never could come up with a good reason why his heart didn't explode and why he didn't keel over, so they just attributed it to rare genetics.
Many highly educated nutritionists and medical professionals use low-level logic and representative type thinking. Eat fat, you will be fat. Eat cholesterol you will have cholesterol problems. They are about as dumb as the piece of paper hanging on their wall that says they graduated from some fancy ivy-league school.
Well did you know that in the last 30 years since the government and scientific community has been pushing the dangers of fats (especially animal fats), that fat consumption as a percentage of daily caloric intake has steadily declined? Red meat and saturated fat has been declining? A chart of egg consumption looks like a chart of gold. Straight down for the last 30 years. Whole milk has declined and been replaced by skim and low-fat milk. Vegetables and fruit have actually gone up, although some of things that are classified as a vegetable or fruit I am skeptical of. French fries are not what I would call a vegetable!
So since the big low-fat, low saturated fat, low cholesterol, more veggies & fruit push in the last 30 years:
--55% of adult Americans are overweight a third are morbidly obese (the figures for children are really getting bad)
--Heart disease has skyrocketed
--Diabetes is the fastest growing killer in America
--Cancer rates are still ballooning
What does that tell us?
--Lowering fat doesn't work
--Lowering red meats and saturated fats doesn't work
--Drinking skim milk hasn't seemed to help
--Eating margarine hasn't caused less heart disease it's caused more
--Eating more "fruit" and "veggies" hasn't done the trick
What could account for the rising rates of obesity & disease over the last 30 years aside from our sedentary lifestyles?
--Well we don't eat butter anymore, we eat margarine which will clog your arteries and give you cancer.
--We don't eat red meat as much, and the red meat you buy at your grocery store is much leaner and raised to have much less fat
--We don't drink whole milk anymore, we drink skim
--We eat 30% more carbohydrates (most of it sugar) than we did 30 years ago.
--We eat over 150-160 pounds of sugar per person a year, up from the less than 20 pounds a hundred years ago.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you look at the statistics fat is not the macro-nutrient that we should avoid. Carbohydrates and especially refined carbohydrates are the real killers.
Did you know that without protein and fat you will die? Did you know that you could live just fine without ever eating a gram of carbohydrate ever again? |
