As Blubbery As A Whale, And As Healthy As Eden'

FAT DOESN’T MAKE YOU FAT’

This topic has become so controversial because from the 1950’s onward it has been so aggressively pushed, that the hypothesis became ‘truth’ before it was “proven” (. . . and it was never proven).

Nina Teicholz, a Science Journalist undertook enormous amounts of research and combed through thousands of journal aritcles and conducted dozens of interviews with researchers whom had conducted the experiements and trials around (or inspired by) the ‘Diet-Heart Hypothesis’, and unravelled a lot of nonesense that literally put it ‘under the microscope’ (Teicholz, 2014). Professor Tim Noakes, and Journalist Gary Taubes, also uncovered a lot of this bullshit (Noakes, 2021; Taubes, 2001).

Ironically, there is another food that kept up with fat, and yet, fat was so aggressively demonised at the time, this other food was overshadowed by fat’s popularity. In fact, Keys, Stamler, and others wanted to ‘sweep under the rug’ any evidence that threatened their hypothesis, which is why in a majority of their articles they only publish half the evidence, and that’s the half that “clearly proves it”.

This other food was sugar, and collectively, with other refined carbohydrates, there began a shift in the amino acid profile of the meat, because cows were no longer being fed grass, but grains. When the animal consumes a different feed, you can bet your ass that it changes their composition. Think about when we eat more carbohydrates, such as cakes, breads, and porridge, for weeks on end, we definitely feel different, don’t we? . . . I definitely don’t feel as fresh after I’ve downed a pack of cake bars; so when this evidence of carbohydrates effecting the hormonal imbalance (Taubes, 2001) of people, this worried Keys. He wanted to make sure his hypothesis stayed strong, so he did what any scientist looking to protect their reputation would do, he started up more studies and looked for populations and resources that fit his hypothesis, which ethically, is w=the opposite of what you should do as a scientist . . .

REMEMBER THESE NAMES,

. . . for this is why you think saturated fat is bad for you.

Ancel Benjamin Keys (Keys, 1980), Jeremiah Stamler (Stamler, Neaton, 2008), Basil Rifkind, . . .

And contrary to popular belief, the body needs fat: it surrounds the trillions of cells in your body and covers all of the trillions of neurons in a myelin sheath helping you to conduct nerve signals from your brain to the rest of your body. Fat is needed for the correct function of your lungs, your heart, and your blood.

Cholesterol Ain’t the “Buggy Man”

This is another bullshit myth that was created out of sheer persistant (blind) will. Guess what the brain needs to function properly? CHOLESTEROL. Guess what all of your stress hormones need to function properly? CHOLESTEROL. Guess what all of your sex hormones need to function properly? CHOLESTEROL. . .

So the next time you’re with your partner, and he’d rather look at the tv, than at you, then you know he’s got an issue down there, right? . . . Also, another symptom could be when you walk into a room, and when you get there, you forget what you went in there for; . . . ever had that? In addition to these symptoms, another symptom that you may have are crackes in your skin, because your skin, a very important organ in your body, and a major part of your immune system, needs CHOLESTEROL.

Historically speaking, there have been many tribes and cultures whom have survived and sometimes thrived on a diet of protein and fat. And, these are the peoples that have the least heart disease and coronary issues. Some of these cultures are the Inuits who live above the Arctic Circle, and the Masai Tribe from Africa. The Masai Tribe in Africa were are a warrior tribe, and their diet mainly consisted of animal protein, fat and blood, and milk (Mann et al, 1972), oh did they drink a lot of milk. As a result, they had very little diesease, because the organs, such as they liver and kidneys of animals, have fat soluable vitamins such as A, D, E, & K, and minerals such as iron and selenium. They got their calcium form the milk they drank. Now I will say this, our milk that we have here in the UK, due to modern agricultural methods, ain’t the same is what they drank. We have far too much heavy pesticide use on our farms, therefore, the cows here aren’t exactly fed the best.

The Inuits ate a diet of mainly fish, seel, whale, and caribou (Arctic deer); and eggs were seasonal, therefore, they were seldom eaten (Stefansson, 1956). And there’s something else about the Inuit’s diet that should not be overlooked, most of their diet was ‘fat’, because they understood the fat on the animal was more nutrient dense; they actually fed the muscle meat to their dogs! What does that tell you?

. . . Yet today, we take pride in eating our ‘muscle meat’ even though, as far as our health goes, it provides less benefit than organ meat. I believe society has changed our way of thinking, and that, because it’s ‘not nice to look at’, or that sounds ‘disgusting’, we now live in a society where it’s practically been villainized. Eggs, the golden standard protein to which all protein is measured, was once villainized. How many of you remember this? ‘eww, did you pump, it smells eggy’, you shouldn’t eat them!’ . . .

Fat & Society

People became more concerned about how things looked than their actually health, and this has become a massive problem in today’s culture. Too many people are concerned about looks over health, . . .

And as a result, even though Ancel Keys and Stamler were born, and conducted their research in the U.S. and Mediterranean, it reached most of the rest of the world, including the UK and now, because of the demonisation of fat and cholesterol, Alzheimers and other neurological diseases have risen; skin conditions have risen, and all of this, because of a few stubborn scientists whom developed a closed mind, and driven by their own blind agenda; they didn’t think of how it would impact the veriws, and ultimately, the health, of the rest of us.

References

Keys, A, C. Aravanis, H. Blackburn, R. Buzina, B.S Djordjevic, A.S. Dontas, F. Fidanza, M.J. Karvonen, N. Kimura, A. Menotti , I. Mohacek , S. Nedeljkovic, V. Puddu, S. Punsar, H.L. Taylor, F.S.P. Van Buchem, (1980). Seven countries: A multivariate analysis of death and coronary heart disease. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Mann GV, Spoerry A, Gary M, and Jarashow D, (1972). ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN THE MASAI, American Journal of Epidemiology; 95(1): 26–37, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a121365 

Noakes TD, (2021). Hiding unhealthy heart outcomes in a low-fat diet trial: the Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial finds that postmenopausal women with established coronary heart disease were at increased risk of an adverse outcome if they consumed a low-fat ‘heart-healthy’ diet. Open Heart;8:e001680. doi: 10.1136/openhrt-2021-001680.

Stamler J, and Neaton JD, (2008). The Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT)—Importance Then and Now. JAMA;300(11):1343–1345. doi:10.1001/jama.300.11.1343.

Stefansson V, (1956). ‘The Fat of the Land’.

Taubes G, (2001). ‘The Soft Science of Dietary Fat’. Science, New Series, Vol. 291, No. 5513; pp. 2536-2541+2543-2545.

Teicholz N, (2014). ‘The BIG FAT SURPRISE: Why Butter, Meat, and Eggs Belong In Our Diet’.