The BIG FAT lie? Is Saturated fat good for us?
This is a repost of one of my articles originally written for “Women Talk, Little Girls Listen”

Whenever I am online looking up natural ways to overcome an illness or condition, it is a given that someone is going to mention giving up meat and going low-fat. It never fails. Many have been brainwashed to believe that meat is what is killing off our nation with heart disease and coronary disorders. Last week I spoke with my 80 year old mother-in-law about butter. She said “You shouldn’t be eating butter anyway”. She uses margarine instead. Coconut Oil
was deemed so bad for people, at one point, that it took a serious hit on sales and seemed to disappear from the American diet all together.

Nobody would eat it for fear of an early demise. What do these anecdotes have to do with each other? They all have to do with the fear of fat that has been perpetuated in the U.S. Thank goodness that kind of silly thinking has cleared up. Or has it? Let’s take a look at where it came from.

Sometime back in the 1950’s, a man named Ancel Keys came up with a VERY flawed study of dietary fat. He believed that eating fat, mostly saturated and animal fat, lead to obesity, sickness and death by way high cholesterol levels which he thought caused cardiovascular & heart disease, basically. He studied 22 countries to try to prove his theory. His theory, however, only was true for 7 of those 22 countries. All the other countries came out with completely opposing conclusions. Instead of him showing the “Real” results of the study, and then trying to find out the real reason for disease, he simply ignored the data that went against his theory. He published the 7 Countries study that oddly enough is pretty much viewed as the gospel still today. People now appear to be fine with the fact that this correlation only seems true for 1/3 of the countries in the entire study. The big FAT lie. Is Saturated fat GOOD for you?