Saturated fats, cholesterol, and cardiovascular disease Those Mediterraneans—the ones observed by Ancel Keys—may have been on to something. With their diets based around vegetables, whole grains, fruits, seafood, olives, nuts, and a little bit of dairy, they showed remarkably low rates of hear...
The fight over saturated fat as part of a healthy or unhealthy diet has some of the smartest minds in nutrition at war—and you may be a casualty.
Palmitic acid is the other main component of saturated fat and has also been shown to increase HDL good cholesterol to the same, if not greater extent than LDL bad cholesterol, thereby making it either neutral or beneficial, but certainly not bad for you. ...
Saturated fat, a fatty acid in which the hydrocarbon molecules have a hydrogen atom on every carbon and thus are fully hydrogenated. (By way of comparison, the hydrocarbon molecules of unsaturated fats have two carbons that share double or triple bonds a
Controversy about saturated fat goes back much further than the Chowdhury study. Some scientists contest that the Seven Countries Study begun in the 1940s by the late Ancel Keys, PhD, at the University of Minnesota, which promoted the idea that saturated fats raise cholesterol and cause heart at...
So, is saturated fat bad for you? When not lumped together with man-made frankenfats (also known as trans fats), long-term studies show little association between elevated cholesterol levels and intake of saturated fat. And if you’re wondering if saturated fat “clogs arteries” and causes ...
Fats are Good for You and Other Secrets: How Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Actually Benefit the BodySome of the effects presented are well-established, while others remain scientifically unproven. Since this book comes under the category of "popular science," much of the information is unsupported...
Any of various fats, including most animal fats, coconut oil, and palm oil, that are solid at room temperature and whose fatty acid chains cannot incorporate additional hydrogen atoms. An excess of these fats in the diet is associated with high cholesterol levels in the bloodstream. ...
Yep, frenchies have one of the highest consumptions of saturated fats and cholesterol (we WILL get to my favorite sterol, don’t you worry) in their diets yet low incidences of heart disease and mortality (10). They are having a jolly good time, why can’t we? Maybe we have hunted...
Study showed saturated fat in coconut oil impaired anti-inflammatory ability of HDL cholesterol This study once again shows how good fats may improve body functions while bad fats hamper our health. Despite its extreme high level of saturated fat, coconut oil supporters have been promoting coconut ...