Is the Polyunsaturated Fat Diet Good For You?
The low fat diet has been with us for many years.
It has become received or conventional wisdom that having a low fat diet is better for your health, that it stops you becoming obese and lessens your chances of developing cancer and heart disease later in life.
But is any of this true? For over two decades now the rich world has believed whole-heartedly that a central part of a low-fat diet is cutting out saturated fats and using polyunsaturated fats such as soy, sunflower and safflower.
Conveniently, American agri-business managed to drastically reduce the popularity of such exports as coconut oil and turned their country into one huge soybean farm.
At the same time the media blitzed us with the dangers of eating butter and saturated fats.
Suddenly everyone was eating margarine and cooking with sunflower and vegetable oil.
Livestock farmers almost universally turned to soy feed.
Every processed food item and junk food product suddenly became supposedly healthier because it contained polyunsaturated fat.
And what is the result more than 30 years down the road? Are we healthier? Is there less obesity, heart disease or cancer? The answer is no.
Are you beginning to put two and two together? That's right - polyunsaturated fats are not better for us.
It is not good to spread.
It is a fact that only in the so-called developed world are cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity a major health problem and a major killer.
For those in the developing world with adequate income (just a few dollars a day) and adequate access to food and clean water cancer etc.
is not a major cause of death.
They have cigarettes.
They have alcohol and other poisonous drugs and yet they are not over-weight and on special diets.
Lots of research has been done on Polynesian communities before and after they were exposed to Western food items.
Before exposure to western food they lived with a diet that contained up to 60% coconut oil and nobody had any coronary problems.
Inuit people in Greenland survive almost entirely on a fish diet high in fat and protein and yet no one has an obesity problem.
The truth is we need saturated fats in our diet because they stimulate thyroid activity.
It is the hormones given off from hyperthyroid activity that create steroids that fight aging and help give vigour to the immunity system.
In contrast soy and other vegetable fats suppress the thyroid gland.
When the thyroid gland is suppressed our bodies cannot burn off cholesterol and we become over-weight.
And with suppressed thyroid glands we cannot fight off cancer and other diseases.
For this reason alone we should give up our irrational obsession with polyunsaturated fats.
You can have the taste of saturated fat without becoming fat.
Not only won't you become fat, you also will probably live longer.
Nathan Pritikin, who invented the low fat diet, committed suicide when he discovered that his non-fat diet had not cured him of Leukemia.
It has become received or conventional wisdom that having a low fat diet is better for your health, that it stops you becoming obese and lessens your chances of developing cancer and heart disease later in life.
But is any of this true? For over two decades now the rich world has believed whole-heartedly that a central part of a low-fat diet is cutting out saturated fats and using polyunsaturated fats such as soy, sunflower and safflower.
Conveniently, American agri-business managed to drastically reduce the popularity of such exports as coconut oil and turned their country into one huge soybean farm.
At the same time the media blitzed us with the dangers of eating butter and saturated fats.
Suddenly everyone was eating margarine and cooking with sunflower and vegetable oil.
Livestock farmers almost universally turned to soy feed.
Every processed food item and junk food product suddenly became supposedly healthier because it contained polyunsaturated fat.
And what is the result more than 30 years down the road? Are we healthier? Is there less obesity, heart disease or cancer? The answer is no.
Are you beginning to put two and two together? That's right - polyunsaturated fats are not better for us.
It is not good to spread.
It is a fact that only in the so-called developed world are cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity a major health problem and a major killer.
For those in the developing world with adequate income (just a few dollars a day) and adequate access to food and clean water cancer etc.
is not a major cause of death.
They have cigarettes.
They have alcohol and other poisonous drugs and yet they are not over-weight and on special diets.
Lots of research has been done on Polynesian communities before and after they were exposed to Western food items.
Before exposure to western food they lived with a diet that contained up to 60% coconut oil and nobody had any coronary problems.
Inuit people in Greenland survive almost entirely on a fish diet high in fat and protein and yet no one has an obesity problem.
The truth is we need saturated fats in our diet because they stimulate thyroid activity.
It is the hormones given off from hyperthyroid activity that create steroids that fight aging and help give vigour to the immunity system.
In contrast soy and other vegetable fats suppress the thyroid gland.
When the thyroid gland is suppressed our bodies cannot burn off cholesterol and we become over-weight.
And with suppressed thyroid glands we cannot fight off cancer and other diseases.
For this reason alone we should give up our irrational obsession with polyunsaturated fats.
You can have the taste of saturated fat without becoming fat.
Not only won't you become fat, you also will probably live longer.
Nathan Pritikin, who invented the low fat diet, committed suicide when he discovered that his non-fat diet had not cured him of Leukemia.
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