Are you suffering from an unnatural fear of fat?

It's amazing that nutritionists working for the most advanced medical institutions on Earth are so ignorant on the important health benefits of saturated fats and cholesterol.

Not that measuring cholesterol is a particularly good predictor of heart problems. 50% of people who suffer from heart attacks have "normal" cholesterol levels and for 33% of people with heart disease, sudden death is the first symptom. As a nation, if we were as bad at driving as we are at predicting heart disease, we'd all be walking for fear of death!

In fact, part of the cause of these dismal numbers, are the very recommendations that the medical "establishment" are pushing on us. Eating a low fat diet, and replacing fat with carbohydrates, wreaks havoc on triglycerides and increases inflammation, and increases LDL cholesterol. Then to compensate for the bad diets sold by nutrition "experts," unenlightened doctors foist cholesterol drugson their patients.

If I were an evil genius working for a pharmaceutical company, that's exactly the marketing plan I would draw up. I'd like to believe that nutritionists are not an army of "mini me's" doing the bidding of Big Pharmacueticals. But you have to wonder.

One last note on the health benefits of saturated fats. During the 1970s, Canadian researchers found that animals fed "heart healthy" canola oil actualy developed heart lesions. The lesions healed when the researchers added saturated fat to the animals diets. These researchers went on to recommend that 25% of dietary fat should be saturated - and the healthiest amongst saturated fats? Lard. Fire up the bacon boys!