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It's the first Monday of Health Month, and everyone who is going to participate has begun by now.
So, for anyone who isn't already clear on why organic/pasture-raised butter and red meat can be considered reasonable food choices during Health Month:
Saturated fat and heart disease: a hypothesis from the 1950s that's never been proved.
Also, I won't go off on it all over again, but using cholesterol levels as a primary marker is one of the causes of confusion in research on this issue. This article is encouraging, though, because it shows mainstream medicine moving in the right direction, confusedly, against its own dogma. Conventional journals in the last couple years also showed that a person's abdominal girth is a better predictor of heart disease risk than cholesterol, as is white blood cell count. I have the articles at home, if anyone wants the numbers and/or cares to join my crusade.
Appreciate your wholesome saturated fats, because they are:
-The preferred fuel for your heart, and also used as a source of fuel during energy expenditure
-Useful antiviral agents (caprylic acid)
-Effective as anticavity, antiplaque and antifungal agents (lauric acid)
-Useful to actually reduce cholesterol levels (palmitic and stearic acids)
-Modulators of genetic regulation and protective against cancer (butyric acid)
If you make it through that whole article, let me know if you get why I secretly roll my eyes when people say or imply that their whole grain breads/pastas/granola bars etc are somehow doing them some good. When I learned the specific mechanism I'm thinking of, it was a huge turning point in my thinking, but it has been very hard to teach.
Good morning!
So, for anyone who isn't already clear on why organic/pasture-raised butter and red meat can be considered reasonable food choices during Health Month:
Saturated fat and heart disease: a hypothesis from the 1950s that's never been proved.
Also, I won't go off on it all over again, but using cholesterol levels as a primary marker is one of the causes of confusion in research on this issue. This article is encouraging, though, because it shows mainstream medicine moving in the right direction, confusedly, against its own dogma. Conventional journals in the last couple years also showed that a person's abdominal girth is a better predictor of heart disease risk than cholesterol, as is white blood cell count. I have the articles at home, if anyone wants the numbers and/or cares to join my crusade.
Appreciate your wholesome saturated fats, because they are:
-The preferred fuel for your heart, and also used as a source of fuel during energy expenditure
-Useful antiviral agents (caprylic acid)
-Effective as anticavity, antiplaque and antifungal agents (lauric acid)
-Useful to actually reduce cholesterol levels (palmitic and stearic acids)
-Modulators of genetic regulation and protective against cancer (butyric acid)
If you make it through that whole article, let me know if you get why I secretly roll my eyes when people say or imply that their whole grain breads/pastas/granola bars etc are somehow doing them some good. When I learned the specific mechanism I'm thinking of, it was a huge turning point in my thinking, but it has been very hard to teach.
Good morning!