Lose It For Ever – Dave Elger

You brat eating Wisconsin Cheeseheads should have your cholesterol checked anyway.

   We’ve spent billions of our tax dollars trying to prove the diet-heart hypothesis. Yet study after study has failed to provide definitive evidence that saturated-fat intake leads to heart disease - from the article  What if Bad Fat Isn’t So Bad?

Cut your saturated fat and reduce your heart attack risk.  This is the advice we’ve been following for a couple of decades.  Now some researchers are giving the saturated fat-heart disease link another look.

This article by Nina Teicholz on msnbc.com is a well-written summary of the questions surrounding evidence that a diet high in saturated fat alone contributes to heart disease.   

If it’s not saturated fat causing all of this heart disease, then what is it?  You have to read the very last paragraph of Nina’s article to find a proposed answer to that question. 

If you consistently consume more calories than you burn, and you gain weight, your risk of heart disease will increase — whether you favor eating saturated fats, carbs, or both.

Finally, check out this latest study published in the respected American J of Clinical Nutrition in Jan of this year.   Researchers pooled the results from 21 studies involving more than 347,000 subjects and found  “that there is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD or CVD. More data are needed to elucidate whether CVD risks are likely to be influenced by the specific nutrients used to replace saturated fat.

^{Holy cow!}

Health Risks heart disease, saturated fat