What if Bad Fat Is Actually Good for You? -Men's Health Article

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New article in Men's Health Magazine:

What if Bad Fat Is Actually Good for You?

By: Nina Teicholz, Photographs by: Nikolai Golovanoff

Excerpt:

" For decades, Americans have been told that saturated fat clogs

arteries and causes heart disease. But there's just one problem: No

one's ever proved it

By: Nina Teicholz, Photographs by: Nikolai Golovanoff

Suppose you were forced to live on a diet of red meat and whole milk.

A diet that, all told, was at least 60 percent fat -- about half of it

saturated. If your first thoughts are of statins and stents, you may

want to consider the curious case of the Masai, a nomadic tribe in

Kenya and Tanzania.

In the 1960s, a Vanderbilt University scientist named Mann,

M.D., found that Masai men consumed this very diet (supplemented with

blood from the cattle they herded). Yet these nomads, who were also

very lean, had some of the lowest levels of cholesterol ever measured

and were virtually free of heart disease.

Scientists, confused by the finding, argued that the tribe must have

certain genetic protections against developing high cholesterol. But

when British researchers monitored a group of Masai men who moved to

Nairobi and began consuming a more modern diet, they discovered that

the men's cholesterol subsequently skyrocketed.

Similar observations were made of the Samburu -- another Kenyan tribe

-- as well as the Fulani of Nigeria. While the findings from these

cultures seem to contradict the fact that eating saturated fat leads

to heart disease, it may surprise you to know that this " fact " isn't a

fact at all. It is, more accurately, a hypothesis from the 1950s

that's never been proved. "

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Also, don't miss this additional article too:

Fat Foods You Can Eat

8 " unhealthy " foods that are actually good for you

By: Jeff Volek, Ph.D., R.D. & Adam Campbel

http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth & channel=nutrition & categ\

ory=food.for.fitness & conitem=4eeddfd87d4a5110VgnVCM10000013281eac____#

When will the insanity stop? :|