What if bad fat isn't so bad?
I found this article published at MSNBC.com site fascinating. It's a long read, but as a scientist, I found the thinking involved in the analysis of the data to be very well thought out. The author probably has a science background and knows how to question scientific studies, their premises and methodologies. Here's the title, subtite, and following text...
No one's ever proved that saturated fat clogs arteries, causes heart disease.
Suppose you were forced to live on a diet of red meat and whole milk. A diet that, all told, was at least 60 percent fat — about half of it saturated. If your first thoughts are of statins and stents, you may want to consider the curious case of the Masai, a nomadic tribe in Kenya and Tanzania.
In the 1960s, a Vanderbilt University scientist named George Mann, M.D., found that Masai men consumed this very diet (supplemented with blood from the cattle they herded). Yet these nomads, who were also very lean, had some of the lowest levels of cholesterol ever measured and were virtually free of heart disease.
Scientists, confused by the finding, argued that the tribe must have certain genetic protections against developing high cholesterol. But when British...continued here
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