What?

Yesterday I was reading an article in last month’s issue of Men’s Health. It was titled “What if Bad Cholesterol is Really Good for you?” As I read, I became more aware of just how much our government has shoveled down our throats for the last few decades.

In 1953, Ancel Keys, Ph.D., made the first scientific indictment. He published a paper titled “Arteriosclerosis, A Problem In Newer Public Health.” In this report, Keys offered that, though the total death rate here in the U.S. was declining, Heart disease related deaths were on a steady climb. Keys then only gave a comparison of fat intake and heart disease of six countries: U.S., Canada, Australia, England, Italy, and Japan.

According to this national diet survey: the higher the fat intake, the higher the rate of heart disease.

In 1957, Jacob Yerushalmy, Ph.D., pointed out that the diet-heart hypothesis actually covered 22 countries. When all 22 were analyzed, the link between heart disease and fat consumption disappeared! In a comparison between Mexico and Finland, heart disease related deaths in Finland were 24 times greater than in Mexico, even though both countries had about the same fat consumption.

Maybe if consideration were also given to the consumption of sugar, white bread, and time in front of the television, there would have been more substantial evidence showing a different outcome. Which leads to the evidence found today: when fat consumption is mixed with the consumption of sugars and starches, and additional hours in front of the tube, saturated fats are broken down into smaller, stickier, and more dense particles, allowing them to stick to the artery walls easier. When starches and sugars are removed from daily diets, the particle size is larger and less dense, allowing them to pass more freely through the blood stream, and out with the rest of the waste.