What is the Truth about Saturated Fats?

(Information from “Nourishing Traditions” by nutrition researcher, Sally Fallon)
There is “very little evidence to support the contention that a diet low in cholesterol and saturated fat actually reduces death from heart disease or in any way increases one’s life span.” Fallon sites flaws and misinformation about numerous research studies and fat consumption life styles.
For instance: The famous Framingham Heart Study which began in 1948 compared about 6000 people at 5 year intervals. Besides finding no correlation between eating saturated fat and heart disease, “After 40 years, the director of this study had to admit: …we found that the people who ate the most cholesterol, ate the most saturated fat, ate the most calories, weighed the least and were the most physically active.”
Elevated triglycerides are not from saturated fats. “Elevated triglycerides in the blood have been positively linked to proneness to heart disease, but these triglycerides do not come directly from dietary fats; they are made in the liver from any excess sugars that have not been used for energy.
A few of the ways saturated fats play many important roles in the body chemistry:
· Constitute a least 50% of cell membranes, giving them necessary stiffness and integrity so they can function properly, are needed to utilize Omega-3 fatty acids which are another vital part of cell membranes
· Needed to effectively incorporate calcium into the skeletal structure
· Lowers Lp(a), a substance in the blood that indicates proneness to heart disease
· Protects the liver from alcohol and other toxins
· Enhances the immune system
· Protects us against harmful microorganisms in the digestive tract
“The cause of heart disease is not animal fats and cholesterol but rather a number of factors inherent in modern diets”. Some of these are vitamin and mineral deficiencies and consumption of trans fats and refined carbohydrates.

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