Articles by Dr. Erdman are for informational purposes, and are not to be taken as specific medical advice.
Back in March there was a study published in the Annals of
Internal Medicine about saturated fat in your diet. Scientists looked at 72
previous studies of more than 600,000 people in 18 countries.
This review looked at the amount of saturated fat people consumed
in their diets and found it really doesn’t have any effect on your risk for
heart disease.
If saturated fats really don’t harm your heart as mainstream
medicine has pushed for all these years, the question then becomes: Why did
they push this idea for so many years?
It all started with a physiologist named Ancel Keys who
published a study known as “The Seven Countries Study.” This paper linked
saturated animal fat consumption to heart disease. What this fraud didn’t
reveal is that the study was actually done with 22 countries. When he made his
conclusion only 7 of the countries actually supported his thesis, so he omitted
all the rest and only published about the 7 that supported his idea. So, all
these years we’ve been given instructions based on known fraudulent studies.
Isn’t that sweet? And don’t let them kid you, this has been known for many,
many years; yet we are still hearing “eat a low fat diet.” Nothing could be
further from the truth.
Later analysis of the exact data Keys used – all the data –
concluded that there was no correlation at all between saturated fat
consumption and coronary artery disease. The opposite is actually true – the
more saturated animal fats you eat, the lower the incidence of heart disease.
In the face of all this evidence to the contrary, Dr. Manny
Alvarez of Fox News still insists on writing this conclusion in a March 18,
2014 article: “If you give in to a diet high in saturated fats, your internal
plumbing will become clogged.” The entire study says the opposite, but a doctor
of the mainstream just can’t bring himself to actually believe it. This is why
you cannot trust medicine to give you any reliable information regarding your
health. They just can’t break old habits and falsehoods even when faced with
irrefutable evidence.
Because of the fact that medicine has pushed this low fat
diet for half a century, Americans are actually sicker and have more heart
issues than ever before. A 2012 study revealed that because we reduced our fat
intake and replaced them with carbs and sugars, we are less healthy with more
heart disease.
Restated… replacing saturated fat – like those found in
grass-fed beef, raw organic butter, coconut oil, and high-quality animal foods
– with carbohydrates – like bread, pasta, bagels, and rice – will increase
your risk of heart disease.
There are many ways to add healthy saturated fats to your
diet. Whole raw grass-fed milk, raw organic butter and coconut oil, and organic
pastured egg yolks are all healthy fats you must eat. They actually reduce your
risk of heart disease, unlike the fable pushed on us for a generation.
The fats you need to avoid are transfats. These are mainly found in your processed
foods and foods with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. These really are bad
for your health, and should be limited in your diet.