Enjoy Eating Saturated Fats: They're Good for You. Donald W. Miller, Jr., M.D.

it's a pleasure to be back giving another paper of the doctors for disaster preparedness my first one was five years ago at the 24th annual meeting on iodine this one that lunch will be on the controversial subject of saturated fats and I've noticed that one of the themes of this meeting is the bad things that government do to our lives and I will follow this theme in this talk with regard to nutrition the medical establishment and government health authorities say the consumption of saturated fat is bad for us and causes heart disease according to the lipid hypothesis the label used for the diet cholesterol theory of heart disease saturated fats raised serum cholesterol levels and high blood cholesterol causes obstructive plaques to form in arteries called atherosclerosis this pathologic process causes coronary heart disease and the need for coronary artery bypass surgery which is what I do animals and tropical plants contain saturated fats while plants outside the tropics are mostly unsaturated saturated animal fats are in milk meat eggs butter and cheese and tropical coconut and palm oil contain a lot of saturated fat the food industry makes trans fats they do this by shooting hydrogen atoms into polyunsaturated vegetable oils this straightens out the fatty acid molecules and packs and closer together giving vegetable oil so treated a solid texture like lard trans fats are used to make margarine with yellow bleach added so it looks like butter they also used to prolong the shelf life of bakery products snacks chips Emmitt and cheese and other processed food a saturated fat is a string of three 222 carbon atoms that are fully saturated with hydrogen atoms unsaturated fat lacks a full complement of hydrogen items unsaturated alpha linoleic acid for example has three carbon double bonds artificially-created trans fats have hydrogen atoms that wind up being opposite sides of the carbon double bond which straightens the molecule out and makes it mimic saturated fat a hundred years ago less than 1 in 100 Americans were obese and coronary heart disease was unknown pneumonia diarrhea and enteritis and tuberculosis were the most common causes of death now a century later heart disease and cancer are the most common causes of death which account for 75% of all deaths in this country there were 500 cardiologists practicing in the u.s. in 1950 there are 30,000 of them now a 60 fold increase in a population that is only doubled since 1950 in 1911 Procter & Gamble started marketing Crisco as a new kind of food the name Crisco is derived from crystallized cottonseed oil it was first commercially marketed the first commercially marketed trans fat Crisco was used to make candles in soap but with electrification causing a decline in candle sales Procter & Gamble decided to promote this new type of fat as an all vegetable derived shortening which the company marketed as a healthier alternative to cooking with animal fats at the time Americans cooked in baked food with lard org fat tallow beef and lamb fat and butter Procter & Gamble published a free cookbook with 615 recipes from pound cake to lobster bisque all of which required Crisco the company succeeded in demonizing lard and during the 20th century Crisco and other trans fat vegetable oils gradually replaced saturated animal fats in tropical oils and the American diet then in 1913 a Russian physiologist fed high doses of cholesterol to rabbits and showed that cholesterol caused a stroke rhotic changes in the rabbits arterial intima like that seen in human atherosclerosis over the ensuing decades other investigators did atherosclerosis research on cholesterol fed rabbits which they cited in support of the diet cholesterol theory of heart disease in 1948 government-funded investigators began following some 5,000 men and women in Framingham Massachusetts to see who developed coronary heart disease they found that people with elevated cholesterol were more likely to be diagnosed with coronary disease and died from it 6 years later the American Heart Association began promoting what it called the prudent diet where corn oil margarine chicken and cold cereal replaced butter lard beef and eggs Ancel keys the father of k-rations for the military published a study in 1953 that correlated deaths from heart disease with the percentage of calories from fat and the diet he found that fat consumption was associated with an increased rate of death from heart disease in the six countries that he studied he followed this up with a more detailed seven countries study published in 1970 using three of the countries that were in the original six country study Italy Japan in the US and four other countries in Greece the Netherlands in Yugoslavia this study further cemented the association of fat consumption and death from heart disease which led to the McGovern report the US Senate Select Committee on nutrition and human needs chaired by Senator George McGovern released in 1977 its dietary goals for the United States designed to reduce fat intake and avoid cholesterol rich foods these dietary goals became official government policy next in 1984 the Center for Science in the Public Interest a consumer advocacy group joined the fray and started to coerce fast food restaurants and the food industry to stop baking and frying food with animal fats and tropical oils McDonald's fried its french fries with beef fat and palm oil that's why they tasted so good but the Center for Science in the Public Interest well-orchestrated saturated fat attack coerced McDonald's and other fast-food chains to switch to partially hydrogenated trans fat vegetable oil adhering to the now well-established low-fat Dogma the US Department of Agriculture in 1992 published its food guide pyramid the pyramid arranges food in sections that convey the message fat is bad carbohydrates are good carbohydrate rich bread cereal rice pasta fill the large bottom space and are to be consumed in abundant amounts 6 to 11 servings a day further up as the pyramid narrows fruit which is also high in carbohydrates is recorded two to four servings whereas the portion that includes meat fish dry beans eggs and nuts is allowed only two to three servings fats and oils are placed at the small top portion of the pyramid and labeled use sparingly beginning in 1980 the US Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services has published every five years and updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans the most recent one published in December 2010 recommends reducing saturated fat to seven percent of caloric intake down from its previously recommended ten percent the USDA Dietary Guidelines and the American Heart Association group trans fats and saturated fats together and demonize them both as solid fats the heart association's website has a meat the fats link where bad fats are brother satin trans saturated and trans fats the better fats are sisters poly Aman polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fat indoctrinated in the low-fat Dogma by Health Organization's nutritional authorities in government I would instruct my heart surgery patients to eat a low-fat diet telling him to cut all the fat off their meat and did not eat more than one egg a week following the USDA food pyramid I did not express any concerns about how much carbohydrates they might consume from starch and bread pasta and potatoes and sugar in fruit juices pastry and sodas when I was director of the heart institute at the Swedish uh Medical Center in Seattle in the 1990s I looked into establishing a Dean Ornish program for reversing heart disease the Ornish program limits fat intake to less than 10 percent of calories in the diet with as one study shows only one percent being saturated fat I had a cardiologist at Swedish accompany me to New York to visit the leading Dean Ornish program there and we came back and recommended that Swedish established one in Seattle I was wrong several years later after leaving Swedish and rejoining the Faculty of the University of Washington I came upon an article by dr. Mary Annan and Sally Fallon Tidy titled the oiling of America that was published in the magazine Nexus in 1999 it stimulated me to look more carefully into this subject Oscar Wilde said life imitates art he pointed out that life imitates art far more than art imitates life in his film sleeper Woody Allen plays Myles Munroe part owner of the happy carrot health food restaurant in Greenwich Village he was cryogenically frozen in 1973 after a botched - peptic ulcer operation done at the now-closed st. Vincent Hospital 200 years later scientists wake him up and revive him this shows miles in outside being taken out for a walk the two scientists looking at him have this exchange he's fully recovered except for a few minor kinks has he asked for anything special yes morning for breakfast he requested something called wheat germ organic honey and Tiger's milk oh yes those are the charm substances that some years ago I felt a cat a life preserving properties I mean there was no deep fat no steak or cream pies or hot fudge those were thought to be unhealthy precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true credible the Tiger's milk is said to be America's original carbohydrate rich protein rich nutrition bar it was popular in the 1970s and you can still get it now on amazon.com as this cinematic cinematic work of art predicts in 21 73 deep fat steak cream pies and hot fudge will ever play sweet germ organic honey and Tiger's milk as health foods the title of this segment on YouTube is Woody Allen's 1973 film sleeper may accurately portray healthy eating in the future the plants that plants should not contain any cholesterol and animals are the only source of cholesterol and herbivores do not eat animal products rabbits being a herbivore are not designed to digest animal fat and cholesterol so when it is fed high doses of cholesterol one should not be surprised if the cholesterol winds up getting stuck in any part of the poor rabbit including his blood vessels feeding high doses of fat and cholesterol to omnivores like rats and dogs does not produce a thorough scottex lesions in them evidence against fat wilts upon close scrutiny in his six country study and soaky's ignored data available from 16 other countries that did not fall in line with his desired graph if he had chosen these six other countries on the left side and even more strikingly on the bottom right he could have shown that increasing percent of calories from fat in the diet reduces the number of deaths from heart disease if keys that included all 22 countries in his study the the result would have been a clutter of dots like this in fact it turns out that people who have the highest percentage of saturated fat in their diets have the lowest risk of heart disease the diet of the Masai tribe in Kenya and northern Tanzania consists of meat milk and blood from cattle it is 66 percent saturated fat dorinda Li the diet of the Inuit Eskimos consisting largely of whale meat and blubber is 75 percent saturated the Ren de lis in the kizuite desert in Northeast Kenya eat Campbell milk and meat and banjo a mixture of camel milk and blood their diet is 63 percent saturated fat and that the toka low live well without cardiologist on three at all islands that are now a territory of New Zealand their diet consists of fish and coconuts which is sixty percent fat like these groups of people around the world breastfed infants in developed first world countries also have a diet that is high in saturated fat the fat in human mother's milk is fifty four percent saturated this study referenced here on this slide was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and is considered to be the most comprehensive analysis done on the Paleolithic hunter-gatherer diet anthropologists have assessed the diets and 229 hunter-gatherer populations that survived into the 20th century and can be viewed as surrogates for our Paleolithic Stone Age ancestors when they can get it these modern-day hunter-gatherers consume high amounts of animal food which can make up to eighty five to a hundred percent of the dot of their calories like the Masai Inuit and rendell II peoples they eat virtually all of the fat on the animal leaving its including its organs tongue bone marrow and brain other carnivores do the same thing lions for example will eat the organs and fat of their kill and leave the lean muscle meat for scavengers since hunter-gatherers do not engage in agriculture they have no corn rice we eat they obtain only a low amount of carbohydrates from wild plants gathering seeds nuts roots tubers bulbs and fruits from them the Paleolithic era or Stone Age lasted two and a half million years beginning with our human ancestor Homo habilis and progressing through a succession of species to ours Homo sapiens which is existed for some two hundred thousand years the age of agriculture began approximately ten thousand years ago and during this time through five hundred generations carbohydrate consumption gradually increased even so at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago sugar consumption was one-fifth of what it is today now we are eating a greatly increased amount of carbs and cereal grains dairy products beverages refined sugar and candy along with processed vegetable oils and dressings that did not exist in our diet for 99.9% of human history during this time the human genome became adapted to follow a high-fat low-carbohydrate diet nevertheless health authorities today say that we should do the opposite and follow a low-fat high-carbohydrate diet as calories fat and carbs are interchangeable protein less so one can eat and digest only so much protein when the amount when the protein content in a diet exceeds 35% of calories nausea diarrhea and weakness occur and these symptoms disappear when the protein is dropped back down to 20 to 25% the new social media of Facebook Twitter and YouTube is not only helping to overthrow dictators and autocratic regimes but also wrong medical dogmas this one titled big fat lies exposes the Shiki nuri that Ancel Keys practice in his work if you could pack all of human history into one year we've only been farming and eating grain since about yesterday which is when we become shorter and fatter we only started consuming processed vegetable oils about 10min it's ago which is when heart disease became our number one killer so after examining all this human history the experts came to the obvious conclusion we need to eat a lot more of these and so they convinced us that human health depends on foods we didn't eat for more than 99% of our entire existence how did this happen in the 1950s a biochemist named Ancel Keys published a study that compared heart disease and fat consumption in a half dozen countries the more fat the more heart disease the trend line was unmistakable just one little problem keys left out countries where people eat a lot of fat but have very little heart disease like Holland and Norway he also left out countries where people don't eat much fat but do have a lot of heart disease like Chile in fact he's had reliable data from 22 countries and the results were all over the place but you can't make a big splash in the scientific community with a trendline that looks like this so Kees did what any dedicated researcher would do he threw out the data that didn't fit and published his results his punishment for this bit of scientific chicanery was to get his picture on the cover of Time magazine Pease became known as the father of the lipid hypothesis which says that eating saturated fat raises the cholesterol in your blood and high cholesterol in your blood logs your arteries and causes heart disease the hypothesis that when you eat high fat that then that produces high cholesterol and the cholesterol produces heart disease is wrong in every one of those links this whole idea that dietary fat causes cholesterol problems it's sort of a myth the whole idea that cholesterol problems lead to heart disease is a myth a theory is completely and totally wrong it was a theory that was made out of whole cloth and then pushed the the term artery-clogging saturated fat it's as though it's all one word it's become part of the zeitgeist everybody knows saturated fat is bad but when you get back and you start looking at the medical literature and you route back through to find out where this whole idea came from it's bogus so in looking at the evidence that saturated fat and cholesterol causes heart disease we see that the answer key study that was so influential with medical organizations in the government is bogus the rabid studies with atherosclerosis from cholesterol is inappropriate because they're herbivores but what about the Framingham study well it turns out that 30 years later this is what the leaders of the study reported Oh two important findings over age 50 there is no increased overall mortality with either high or low serum cholesterol levels and in people with a falling cholesterol level over the first 14 years of the study for each one person one milligram one percent milligram per deciliter drop in cholesterol there was 11 percent increase in all cause mortality over the next 18 years and dr. Castelli the third director of the study in 1992 in the archives of internal medicine wrote and I'll just read it in Framingham Massachusetts the more saturated fat one ate the more cholesterol one ate the more calories one ate the lower the person's serum cholesterol we found that people who ate the most cholesterol ate the most saturated fat ate the most calories weighed the least and were the most physically active well we have the McGovern report that put out this low-fat diet what what's the story on the McGovern report the committee's original report urged Americans to reduce their risk of heart attacks by reducing their intake of cholesterol down to the equivalent of about one egg a you know there were eminent scientists of the time saying this is nonsense there is no good scientific evidence that either fat or cholesterol you know is it the root of heart disease I said to the professor that I was working with you know this is not right animal fats not causing this and now this is Marianne again and I just like to note about her she's the one wrote the article that got me started on reevaluating all of this she's a researcher at the University of Maryland and in 1978 she was the loan whistleblower warning people about the dangers of trans fats the medical establishment government and the food and drug industry belittled her findings and ignored them that fat trans fats interfere with critical enzyme systems in the body and suppress her findings for 25 years as evidence of their danger continued to grow the FDA finally in 2003 announced that beginning in 2006 the food industry must display how much trans fat the product contains on his nutritional facts label having ignored the subject since its inception in 1980 the government's 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans at last warned them to restrict their consumption of trans fats in 2006 New York became the first city in the nation to ban trans fats from restaurant food I said to the professor that I was working with you no this is not right animal fats not causing this and this is not what the data says I have pleaded in my report and will plead again orally here for more research on the problem before we make announcements to the American public well I would only argue that senators don't have the luxury that a research scientist does awaiting until every last shred of evidence is in the McGovern committees report was written by a young staff member who happened to be a vegetarian and had no background in medicine or health research the committee recommended a low fat low cholesterol diet for everyone and offered some ideas that could only spring from the mind of a politician but senator Schweiker of Pennsylvania suggested that instead of discrediting the committee's report the egg men should be out developing hens that would lay low cholesterol eggs soon after the McGovern report was issued the USDA got into the act Carol Tucker Foreman the assistant secretary at the time believed in the low fat diet theory and wanted to issue official government guidelines to tell everybody how to eat to make sure she was on solid scientific ground she consulted with Philip handler the head of the National Academy of Sciences just one little problem handler told her the McGovern committees report was nonsense so she did what any dedicated government official would do she ignored him shopped around for a scientist who agreed with her then issued the guidelines thanks to a handful of politicians with no background in science the heart-healthy benefits of a low-fat diet became official government policy and real scientists got the message loud and clear tell us what we already believe or you can say goodbye to your lucrative government funding could be better said evident evidence that that the McGovern the committee did not have in the 1970s is this 2005 report of European cardiovascular disease statistics they show an inverse correlation with fat consumption and the rate of heart disease countries with the lowest consumption of saturated fat have the highest rates of heart disease Georgia Tajikistan Azerbaijan Moldova with over Croatia Macedonia Ukraine all have saturated fat consumption that is less than 7.5 percent of calories which is what the USDA and the American Heart Association recommend but their death rate from heart disease is quite high Austria Finland Belgium Iceland the Netherlands Switzerland and France have high levels of saturated fat in the diet and low rates of heart disease France with the highest fat consumption has the lowest rate of deaths from heart disease among these 14 European countries the biologic importance of saturated fat there's good reason why 54% of the fat and mother's milk is saturated fat cell membranes need saturated fatty acids to function properly and be waterproof the heart prefers long-chain 16 carbon and palmitic and 18 C stearic acid / carbohydrates for energy bonds need them to assimilate calcium effectively they protect the liver from adverse effects of alcohol and medications like tylenol lung surfactant is composed entirely of 16 C plummet acid when president sufficient amounts it prevents asthma and other bleep excuse me breathing disorders saturated fats function has synced signaling messengers for hormone production they play an important role in immune system priming white blood cells to destroy invading bacteria viruses and fungi and the fight tumors and medium change chain 12c lauric and 14c myristic acid in butter kill bacteria and canada fungus saturated fat signal sanity you stop eating because you feel full lose fat and maintain a normal weight and importantly saturated fats reduces consumption of health damaging carbohydrates and vegetable oils like what Tom Dewey's yesterday said is starting to happen with citizen-led attacks on sustainable development the American Journal of nutrition one of the leading establishment medical journals that defends the hypothesis is now backing down and reporting cracks in the wall of the diet cholesterol heart orthodoxy a meta-analysis of the prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease does not support the notion that saturated fats increase the risk of coronary heart disease stroke or peripheral vascular disease and this journal recently published a prospective cohort study of 53,000 women and men comparing their intake of carbohydrates in saturated fats and found that replacement of saturated fats with high glycemic index carbohydrates significantly increases the risk of heart attacks I particularly like this study this this trial published in the journal lipids enrolled 40 women with a waist circumference greater than 35 inches 20 were randomized to take 30 milliliters 2 tablespoons of coconut oil a day at Group C and the other 20 took 30 milliliters of sold soybean oil a day for for 12 weeks the groups see women taking the coconut oil exhibited a significant reduction in waist circumference for the statistician x' among us a p-value of 0.005 and there was no change in the soybean group and the only thing that the saturated fat laden coconut oil did to cholesterol levels was to raise HDL cholesterol the one that advocates of the lipid hypothesis called the good cholesterol dr. Mary Hennen is Salif Alan Sallie Fallon who was a president of the Weston Price Foundation have written a book titled eat fat lose fat lose weight and feel great with three delicious science-based coconut diets I highly recommended the fat content of coconut oil is 92% saturated the highest saturated fat of any food I now start each day with two tablespoons of coconut oil well what about cholesterol as with saturated fat it is not a villain on the contrary cholesterol is critical for good health it is essential an essential component of every cell in the body and although few doctors know this more than 20 studies have shown that elderly people with a high cholesterol level in their blood live longer than those who have a low cholesterol cholesterol is the mother of all hormones it is converted into stress and sex hormones like cortisol testosterone and estradiol in the adrenal cortex the liver turns cholesterol into bile salts needed for intestinal absorption of fats and the fat soluble vitamins a d e and K and when exposed to UV be raised in sunlight or a tanning salon the skin turns cholesterol into vitamin D plus or all is also the body's fire-brigade it repairs damage to the body's tissues particularly the damaged and arteries inflammation does too cause a stroke sclerosis blaming cholesterol for atherosclerosis is like blaming firemen for the fire they have come to put out along with saturated fats cholesterol is an integral component of cell membranes brain and nerve tissue have the highest concentration of cholesterol in the body it is a key component in forming synapses cell connections needed for good mental functioning learning and memory so if not cholesterol what causes heart disease well after scrotus is basically an inflammatory process and brought on by eating too many carbohydrates and omega-6 vegetable oils stress also plays a role in possibly also bacterial infection a deficiency of various vitamins shown here and may or may also play a role in causing a thorough Scottish heart disease as may in excess or deficiency of various minerals over the past century butter consumption is plummeted from 18 grams per person today to 5 grams consumption of lard has dropped substantially while the use of shortening has almost tripled in 1909 shortening was a natural product made with coconut oil and lard shortening used today is made out of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil consumption of margarine made with trans fats has gone up fivefold and vegetable oils more than 15 fold by 1950 nearly 10% of Americans or obese 30 years later in 1980 it risen to 15 percent then following publication of the US Dietary Guidelines and it's every five year updates obesity and Americans has steadily risen now two thirds of the American public is overweight with more than one-third obese the average American weighs now weighs 191 pounds the American men and American women 167 pounds and that's 30 pounds more than he or she weighed a hundred years ago the rise in obesity parallels closely the rise in carbohydrate intake and his Gary table shows in his book why we get fat and what to do about it carbohydrates not overeating or a sedentary life or what make you fat eating fat and protein doesn't make us fat only carbohydrates do this graph in mark Sissons book the primal blueprint compares carbohydrate intake with weight consuming less than 150 grams of carbs a day enables one to maintain a stable weight more than that and you gain weight one burns more fat and will lose weight when the carbohydrate intake is less than 100 grams unfortunately Americans today consume between 300 and 500 grams of carbs a day and over a 30-year period from 1980 to 2008 evidence of diabetes is tripled now in 2011 according to the National diabetes fact sheet twenty five point eight million children and adults in the u.s. eight point three percent of the population have diabetes in 79 million people based on their fasting glucose and hemoglobin a1c levels are pre-diabetic in fact diabetes and obesity go together so much so that these disorders are now being called diabesity body mass index is a commonly used measure for obesity calculated by dividing once weight and kilograms by one's height and meter squared one is considered obese if the BMI is greater than 30 and morbidly obese if it's greater than 35 the lifetime risk for diabetes is around 30% for people who are overweight with a BMI of 25 to 30 50 % for obese people and 70% for people that are morbidly obese consumption of butter has dropped precipitously while cancer and heart disease has soared the rise in cancer and heart disease cannot be blamed on a high saturated fat diet these books prove beyond a reasonable doubt that today's chronic diseases such as diabetes heart disease obesity stroke cancer our nutritional diseases a resulting of eating a low-fat mainly polyunsaturated vegetable oil high carbohydrate diet Allyson Fred Otto Bonnie wrote modern nutritional diseases heart disease stroke type 2 diabetes obesity cancer and how to prevent them berry groves trick or treat how healthy eating is making this ill and Zoe Hart calm the obesity epidemic what caused it how can we stop it Perry groves in particular citing more than one thousand references documents how so-called healthy eating is making ille a 12 ounce can of coke has 10 teaspoons of sugar which contains 42 grams of sugar supply in 167 calories the 20 ounce bottle has 17 a 30 ounce bottle of 27 teaspoons of sugar the average American drinks 600 cans 56 gallons of soft drinks a year up from 216 and 1971 the average American teenager drinks between 3 & 6 cans a day one-third of our dietary sugar comes from sodas and have become America's number-one source of calories disasters that may confront us can be divided into ones that are natural and those that are human-made natural ones range from earthquakes to an impact of in like the 165 million years ago when an asteroid six miles in diameter collided with the earth earth and wiped out the dinosaurs and all life-forms larger than size of a small chicken human-made disasters include political economic and martial types a number which DDP has addressed to this list must be added the nutritional disaster of a low-fat high-carbohydrate diet these trucks laden with soda pop serve as its weapons of mass destruction in addition to eat fat loose fat I recommend two more books that can help us reduce our carbohydrate intake and these are listed in the handout that you receive one is life without bread how a low carbohydrate diet can save your life it describes diets that limit carbohydrate intake to 72 - 72 grams a day which is the equivalent of 6 slices of bread the other one is why we get fat and what to do about it by Gary Taubes noting that meat fish and eggs contain no carbohydrates he suggests that you eat as much of them as you like along with leafy green vegetables try chicken salad wrapped in lettuce for a lunch sandwich the ideal caloric ratio between carbohydrates fats and proteins is carbohydrates 10 to 15% protein 15 to 25% and fats 60 to 70% with saturated fats composing the majority of the fats among the different kinds of fats saturated fats and monounsaturated fats are good and except for omega-3 and small amounts of omega-6 essential fatty acids polyunsaturated fats are bad and in the hike once particularly in the high quantities that we have them in a Western diet saturated animal fat is best obtained from grass-fed beef and pastured chickens along with nitrate free and additive free bacon and sausage and seafood from wild not farm raised fish healthy milk and meat comes from contented cows on pasture eating grass food that they are designed to eat confinement operations like these produce meat that is too high in omega-6 polyunsaturated fat and too low in vitamins it being certified organic is not sufficient the turkeys in the photo in the lower-left can be sold as organic because they're caged free the the best meat to eat is that which is certified humanely treated or 100% grass-fed finished pastured poultry produces eggs much richer in nutrients such as vitamin D in a and omega 3 fatty acids like with the turkey so can find organic eggs are produced mainly in barns one wants to eat pastured eggs like those sold at a farmers market the color of the yolk is an indication of the presence of nutrients the pastured egg with its dark orange color is full of nutrients the organic store egg less so the supermarket egg pale as it is could be even wider if the chickens weren't fed orange foods and dyes the butter on the right was made from cream from cows on green pasture the deep yellow color is indicative of high levels of omega-3 fats and fat soluble vitamins the butter on the left was made with cream from confined cows commercial butter like this has artificial color added to it so the consumer will not know that it is actually colourless to articles that I recommend that you can get online on this subject is the oiling of America and an article I wrote published last year and the health benefits of a low carbohydrate high saturated fat diet I did a podcast on the health benefits of a low carbohydrate high saturated fat diet on the livin la vida loca show the show's host Jimmy Moore has titled it cardiac surgeon dr. Donald Miller tells dr. Dean Ornish to take a hike and for those of you who would like to delve further into the subject I highly recommend these two books written by a cardiologist dr. Ravin scoff these books are a must read for anyone taking statins to lower their cholesterol supporters of the Orthodox view that saturated and cholesterol cause heart disease who dismissed these books unread bring to mind George Orwell's definition of Orthodoxy orthodoxy means not thinking not needing to think and frank zappa put it well when he said the mind is like a parachute it only works when it's open one needs to approach this subject with an open mind the last word on this subject of course should go to Julia Child unlike McDonald's I think they're very careful in Lee and I think if they have a you know you buy a franchise I think you only have a certain amount of it you're in charge and they have their standards and so forth and I thought when they first started out the French fries were very good and then the nutritionists got at them that it which turned out to be erroneous that beef tallow fat was bad and that lard was bad and so forth and so they changed it to some kind of a nutritionist oil and they've been kind of limp ever since I never really eat them which is too bad and I always very strong about criticizing and hoping maybe they'll change so enjoy eating saturated fats are good for you I agree heartily with your basic thesis that it's ridiculous for of government to attempt to impose an average on the populace especially what has been happening however having sub-specialized in preventive cardiology for over 50 years you're emitting what we just learned this morning about the dose and radiation the dose and you can easily measure correlate waist lines with mortality see the first step secondly the beta blockers were the Korean soldiers were found to have coronary artery disease with a fear and anger and then the beta blocker studies and I have a study here that I pass out to my patients that show that need the Cleveland Clinic has found it by giving beta blockers they reduce the plaque and the coronary arteries so I agree hardly with your basis thesis only it's too narrow you know also on dose exercise and adrenaline I noticed two items in this talk here you did not make a distinction between or at least I didn't pick it up refined carbohydrate complex highly complex being such things as whole 100% whole wheat and most raw vegetables and then also if you delete a lot of these carbo's where are you going to get your fiber which i believe is also rather necessary for good we'll call it digestive health the refined carbohydrates get absorbed and raise the blood glucose level faster than well starch but the starch is our carbohydrates or Google change the glucose molecules and they do eventually get released and and put stress on on on insulin deeds and so it's uh it's pretty much all together I don't know what to say about fiber but if you eat a lot of meat you get fiber the Environmental Protection Agency its effort to decarbonize United States is saying the incidence of diabetes asthma is due to burning fossil fuels and they want to cut back on that okay I'm from that I can remember the 1940s Poston was a thousand times worse than what we have today and I heard the word has but I never ever heard of anybody having it and now you've hit upon this thing on diet increased well we could just be the solution yes the lung surfactant which prevents asthma is made solely of 16c palmitic acid a saturated fat so if you're cutting back on your saturated fats you're not making enough lung surfactant and you get more prone to asthma yes I strongly agree with your talk I know your cardiologist and I would also like to hear it sometime please correct dad and I I'm not a cardiologist I'm a cardiac surgeon yeah Iseman okay I think there's also a neurologic part of this which is um whether this diets affect our behavior I go no further than the fact that in the past with infants that had seizures they would use ketogenic diets and that would stop the seizures and I think there's a strong neurologic issue with diet as well I agree great great lecture I do have a question however about artificial sweeteners in particular aspartame is there any give any comments on that is it I've heard that it is linked to obesity they do any comments yeah yeah the artificial sweeteners are neurotoxic and and and they they lead to obesity because the body is not satisfied that it didn't get the real thing in so you eat more are there any studies being done right now looking at lack of ingestion of fats with Alzheimer's could you repeat the question just a correlation between a deficiency and saturated fats and either onset or incidence of Alzheimer's disease well I'm not aware of any but there is a body of literature that would indicate that that low saturated fat is associated with neurodegenerative diseases and which would include Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and ISM and and others just ones bottom line can I tell my wife that I can now eat higher fat ice cream and in full milk is that all right yeah I could quote you on it all right thank you yes

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Even though the majority of his information is accurate, I'm not a fan of Miller in general. His controversial stance on other subjects (such as global warming, HIV/AIDS, and homosexuality) as well as some of his political connections and journal affiliations, makes him untrustworthy and tarnishes the accurate information provided in this video. For these reasons, critics of a low-carb/keto diet can easily resort to logical fallacies to 'disprove' his information. So in short, he makes us all look bad to outsiders despite providing accurate information in this specific case.

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A must watch for all keto'ers.

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So dry, but so good.

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My cholesterol (LDL-P count) shot up shortly after starting keto (though I don't know there's a connection - it nearly doubled in three months, I was two weeks into keto). One of the suggestions was to cut back on my saturated fats.

Taking this advice feels scary right now.