It’s
because of fake and altered studies that some greedy scientists made
to win prizes and get more funding.
One
of them is Ancel Keys in the 1950s. He made a study that compared
animal fat consumption with heart disease in a dozen of countries. He
found out that the more animal fat the country consumed, the more
heart disease they had. The only problem is that he left out a bunch
of countries that eat a lot of animal fat and have a very low rate of
heart disease like Holland and Norway and he also left out a bunch of
countries where they don’t eat much animal fat and have a high rate
of heart disease such as Chile.
He
had data from 22 countries and the results were completely random but
he decided to throw away the data that didn’t match the high
fat/high heart disease trend and he published his study.
He
was published in Time Magazine and he became known as the father of
the Lipid Hypothesis which says that:
Saturated
fat raises cholesterol
Cholesterol
causes heart disease
This
theory is wrong. It is a myth. Yet somehow it extrapolated and has
become common knowledge for most people.
Let’s
look at point 1. Saturated fat raises cholesterol. Real Studies show
that people eating a low fat diet over decades get just as much heart
disease as people eating a normal diet.
Let’s
look at point 2. Cholesterol causes heart disease. If you look at
people that have heart disease, some of them have high cholesterol
and some of them have low cholesterol. A famous heart surgeon called
Michael Debakey compared the medical records of more than 1700 of his
own patients. He found no relationship between high cholesterol and
heart disease.
Fake Lipid Hypothesis Data
If
you want more HDL the last thing you need is a lot fat diet. 27
studies showed that eating saturated fat raises your HDL.
How
Heart Disease Is Actually Created:
First
of all, not all LDL is bad. There are 2 types of LDL: Small dense LDL
(type B LDL) are the most harmful and other type (the less dense
ones) aren’t harmful at all.
Heart
problems begin when your arteries become damaged or inflamed. LDL
then does exactly what it’s supposed to do. It brings cholesterol
to help the healing process.
But
if small LDL becomes damaged by oxidation it can penetrate the wall
of the artery. If the inflammation and oxidation continue a plaque
begins to form on the artery. Now you have heart disease.
So
If Small LDL Causes Heart Disease, Does Eating High Fat Creates Small
LDL?
No.
What causes small LDL to create is carbohydrates. Elimination of
grains, starch, sugars and overall carbohydrate restriction in the
diet provokes a big drop in small LDL particules.
Why Does Cholesterol Gets all the Blame?
Studies
show that smoking, elevated blood sugar and stress causes
inflammation and damages the arteries. It also shows that it raises
cholesterol. It seems that scientists decided to point the finger at
cholesterol over and over and ignore the results of their studies.
Why
so Much Dishonesty From Scientists?
In
the 1970s, the Lipid Hypothesis was still in dispute. A senate comity
headed by George McGovern decided to settle the issue. At the time
McGovern was following the Pritikin Diet and believed that everyone
should be cutting off on fat and cholesterol even though 8 studies
including 5000 people failed to provide any evidence that diet has
anything to do with heart attack.
After
the McGovern report was issued assistant secretary Carol Tucker
Foreman of the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture)
believed in the low fat diet and wanted to issue official guidelines
to tell everybody how to eat.
After
this, politicians believed in the low fat diet and it became
impossible for researchers to get funding for studies that proved the
low fat diet wrong.
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