Time Magazine: Eat Butter

[Dougalling]

They've been able to lie for hundreds of years but now we have social media and that changes the whole game. As more and more people spread the news, vegan will become the normal way. All diets come to an end as people realize it just isn't working. The Starch Solution will prevail.
Thank you Dr McDougall

[soul food]

http://www.prevention.com/weight-loss/w ... t-fats-eat

3 New Fat Facts That Could Have Saved Us All A Lot Of Trouble
With one dramatic study, Swedish scientists have at last put saturated fat in its place. Eating just got a whole lot easier.


by Aviva Patz

He's right. There was a final unresolved mystery in the decades-long search for consensus about fat, and it was time we put it to bed: Does saturated fat make us fat? We now know that a low-fat diet, tried en masse in the '80s and '90s, caused widespread weight gain.

I keep hearing this but what is their source that people actually went on low fat diet en masse?

. BUTTER WAS NEVER BACK
At this point you may be wondering: Is it really settled that saturated fat is bad for heart health? You may be aware of a big recent review that "exonerated" the stuff: Scientists from Cambridge looked at 72 studies comparing people who ate more saturated fat with those who ate less and found no cardiovascular advantages among the virtuous types who had cut back. So didn't Brie lovers have reason to rejoice, as all the "Butter Is Back" headlines claimed?

In short, no. Even the study's coauthor, a cardiovascular epidemiologist at Cambridge, acknowledges that the work was largely misconstrued and doesn't actually amount to permission to embrace saturated fat. The main problem with the study: It didn't look at the whole picture. Sure, the people who cut back on saturated fat had just as much heart disease as the others did. But what had those people filled the saturated-fat void with? Not healthy stuff but, rather, bread, cereal, and other refined carbs, per their food diaries. And we already know that eating too much sugar and starch is associated with obesity, diabetes, and coronary disease.

MORE: Good Fat vs. Bad Fat: What You Should Be Eating Now

"If eating less saturated fat means eating more sugar, then of course cutting back on it isn't going to improve your health," says David Katz, founder of Yale University's Prevention Research Center. The study didn't show saturated fat to be harmless; it showed that replacing it with sugar and refined carbs is no better.

After an avalanche of criticism, the authors published a revised version. Some experts are calling for it to be revoked entirely. Decades of research show that saturated fat raises cholesterol, which in turn may increase heart disease risk. The Cambridge study did little to refute that.

2. SATURATED FAT IS A BIG WAIST
When the results of Riserus's muffin study came in, they were beyond damning. While both muffin groups experienced similar weight gain—that's what happens when you eat 750 extra calories a day for nearly 2 months—the volunteers eating the saturated-fat muffins built more fat, and far more of the dangerous kind around the internal organs (check out this visual guide to body fat); meanwhile those eating polyunsaturated-fat muffins built three times more muscle mass, which makes it easier to lose weight and stay healthy. "We were surprised that the differences in abdominal and liver fat accumulation were so clear," says Riserus

3. THE GOOD STUFF MATTERS MOST
The fact that subjects who ate sunflower-oil muffins built so much more muscle—muscles from fat?—was an even bigger surprise. Until this point, only animal data had suggested that this could happen. Riserus and his team think that polyunsaturated fat might somehow turn on genes that stimulate protein synthesis.



The benefit adds to the growing list of what you stand to gain from eating more healthy fat. Earlier this year, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics urged us to increase heart- and brain-essential omega-3 fats (the equivalent of two to three servings a week of salmon or sardines). And if you're sick of hearing about the fat-filled Mediterranean diet, too bad: A recent trial showed that diets with increased olive oil or nut intake reduced heart trouble. Some research even indicates that good fats can inoculate us against the ill effects of bad ones. In a 2012 UCLA study, people who ate hamburgers topped with avocado saw a smaller spike in triglycerides and inflammatory substances than those who ate burgers without the healthy-fat add-on.

maybe this is a factor in the nut and weight loss studies?

somehow I messed up the quote thing but you can still read it.
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