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The saturated fat link to heart disease may be melting away
If you’ve given up the guilty pleasures of a perfectly cooked steak, dripping in rich juices, butter melted just perfectly onto your biscuits… or your favorite cheeses due to concerns over what their saturated fat content can do to your heart, hold up…
The research isn’t so clear-cut. In fact, the evidence against including saturated fats as part of a heart-healthy diet may be weak at best, and those fats may be an important part of a well-rounded diet..
Is the warning about saturated fat wrong?
So why has there been a smear campaign against saturated fats (especially when they are so yummy)?
For years, your doctor has been warning that saturated fats can lead to blockages in your arteries, potentially damaging your heart over time. Yet, a team of scientists from the University of Bergen thinks that foods high in saturated fat may have gotten a bad rap and that we’ve been looking at them all wrong.
In fact, the conclusion they’ve come to is that the cholesterol found in saturated fats is vital for keeping the cells of the body healthy.
Without enough cholesterol, the membranes surrounding those cells can become either too stiff or too fluid.
And the researchers say that your body is uniquely designed utilizethe faefficiently it.
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A well-oiled machine that sorts out the fat
They point out that the evidence on this is clear. When you remove saturated fats from your diet, you have to compensate by eating more foods high in polyunsaturated fats to maintain your health and receive the same benefits to your cells that you would get from smaller amounts of the saturated kind.
This demonstrates that your body adjusts to the type of fat you provide it. If you feed it saturated fats, it uses them to keep your cell membranes healthy. Go for the polyunsaturated versions found in fish, walnuts and even sunflower oil, and it adapts to make use of them.
Weak evidence and lack of response to dietary changes
Finally, after reviewing all the available evidence, the team found that the basis we had been using to exclude saturated fats from a healthy diet just isn’t there. And they call it “inconsistent and unconvincing”.
To top it off, they even point to the fact that people with metabolic disorders “often do not show the expected changes in blood cholesterol when changing their fat intake, suggesting loss of the normal response.”
In other words, it’s more likely that cholesterol problems have to do with how your body responds to cholesterol at all — not which fat you feed it to provide the cholesterol.
So if you’ve been denying yourself that steak, butter or cheese you’ve been craving, why not give in — but in moderation. After all, while saturated fats may actually be part of a healthy and balanced diet, too much of anything is never a good thing.
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Saturated fats in butter, meats, and cheese may not cause heart disease despite warnings — Study Finds
By Dr. Adria Schmedthorst
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