Notes from Eat Butter Article:
"The myopic focus on fat has warped our diet and contributed to the biggest health crises facing the country. It's time to end the war."
We have known for some time that fats found in vegetables and in fish like in salmon can actually protect against heart disease. Now it is becoming clear that even sat fat in steak or butter provide benefits to health. New research suggests that it's the over consumption of carbohydrates, sugar and sweeteners that is chiefly responsible for the epidemicsof obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Refined carbohydrates cause changes in our blood chemistry that encourage the body to store the calories as fat and intensify hunger, making it that much more difficult to lose weight.
Easy to assume that eating fats would make us fat, clog arteries and give us heart disease. It sounds like common sense-you are what you eat. The thinking for consumers was simple: Fat is dangerous, and this product has no fat; therefore it must be healthy.
The idea here was in part to cut calories, but Americans actually ended up eating more: 2,586 calories a day in 2010 compared with 2,109 a day in 1970. Over that same period, calories from flour and cereals cons went up 42% and obesity and type 2 diabetes became epidemics. Study after study has found that it's very difficult to lose weight on a very low-fat diet, possibly because fat and meat can produce a sense of satiety that's harder to achieve with carbs.
A 2010 meta-analysis-basically a study of other studies-concluded that there was no significant evidence that saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
The war over fat is far from over. Consumer habits are deeply formed, and entire industries are based on demonizing fat.
The staggering rise in obesity over the past few decades doesn't just stem from refined carbohydrates messing with our metabolism. More and more of what we eat comes to us custum designed by the food industry to make us want more.
"The myopic focus on fat has warped our diet and contributed to the biggest health crises facing the country. It's time to end the war."
We have known for some time that fats found in vegetables and in fish like in salmon can actually protect against heart disease. Now it is becoming clear that even sat fat in steak or butter provide benefits to health. New research suggests that it's the over consumption of carbohydrates, sugar and sweeteners that is chiefly responsible for the epidemicsof obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Refined carbohydrates cause changes in our blood chemistry that encourage the body to store the calories as fat and intensify hunger, making it that much more difficult to lose weight.
Easy to assume that eating fats would make us fat, clog arteries and give us heart disease. It sounds like common sense-you are what you eat. The thinking for consumers was simple: Fat is dangerous, and this product has no fat; therefore it must be healthy.
The idea here was in part to cut calories, but Americans actually ended up eating more: 2,586 calories a day in 2010 compared with 2,109 a day in 1970. Over that same period, calories from flour and cereals cons went up 42% and obesity and type 2 diabetes became epidemics. Study after study has found that it's very difficult to lose weight on a very low-fat diet, possibly because fat and meat can produce a sense of satiety that's harder to achieve with carbs.
A 2010 meta-analysis-basically a study of other studies-concluded that there was no significant evidence that saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
The war over fat is far from over. Consumer habits are deeply formed, and entire industries are based on demonizing fat.
The staggering rise in obesity over the past few decades doesn't just stem from refined carbohydrates messing with our metabolism. More and more of what we eat comes to us custum designed by the food industry to make us want more.