A 2020 Cochrane meta-analysis of roughly 59,000 participants across 15 randomized controlled trials found that replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat reduced combined cardiovascular events by 21%.
Not all cause mortality, that’s interesting
Cardiologists note that the risk reduction from this dietary substitution is comparable to the benefits of statin medications.
Yes. It undeniably lowers ldl… Is that a good thing? Let’s look at that all cause mortality data again… it’s missing? Oh heavens
Ultra-processed food really is a problem. The National Institutes of Health published the first randomized controlled trial on ultra-processed food in 2019 (a landmark study by Kevin Hall’s team) showing that people randomized to an ultra-processed diet consumed about 500 more calories per day and gained weight, even when macronutrients were matched precisely. The food was engineered to override satiety — proven, not suggested.
What does this dietician think a seed oil is? They were not a major source of human dietary fat over 150 years ago… They are ultra processed.
MAHA is road paved with artery-clogging cholesterol, and they’re calling it a health revolution.
Cholesterol is not a disease, if you don’t eat it your body makes it. Eating dietary cholesterol does not increase serum cholesterol. For a dietitian they don’t know much about the how the body actually works
Rehabilitating saturated fat — or casting public doubt on the evidence against it — is something those industries have spent decades and enormous lobbying dollars trying to accomplish.
It’s already been rehabilitated - https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.05.077 this dietitian isn’t keeping up with the literature
Isn’t making chips healthier
Yeah chips will always be unhealthy, massive carb load, drives insulin, drives chronic disease
The boring answer — eat more vegetables and legumes, less ultra-processed food, default to olive oil, and yes, the source of fat matters less than the overall dietary pattern
Less ultra processed foods includes their beloved seed oils. Just swapping out seed oils for saturated fat won’t fix major issues because it’s not the biggest lever. It’s chronic insulin which is addressed by a reduction in carbs not fat sources.
Diet doctor had a great review article on seed oils. Written by both doctors and dieticians as well - https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/vegetable-oils
Yes, high glucose levels from carbs and simple sugars are well-associated with heart disease and arterioschlerosis. Diabetic and pre-diabetic blood conditions are hell on arteries. And carbs have almost no satiation response, so you’ll eat a bag of chips or a huge plate of pasta without getting full. I wore a continuous blood glucose meter for a couple of months and it was eye-opening what even small amounts of “healthy” carbs do to your glucose levels.
Insulin resistance short of diabetes is still a much higher risk factor for CAD than saturated fats. Yet demonizing fats is still a holdover from the very suspect Seven Countries study.
Ancel Keys has killed millions with his cherry picked papers.
I’ve been posting papers discussing how saturated fats in the absence of carbs and processed foods appear to be protective of all cause mortality
The CGM doesn’t lie, all anyone has to do to see the truth of it is to wear one. I recommend everyone to do this at least once.
