Saturated Fat

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‘The Big Fat Surprise’ — Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Are Important Parts of a Healthy Diet

One of the reasons you can survive a long time without food is due to the process of ketosis, which spares protein breakdown.20 A fairly consistent effect seen in people on a ketogenic diet is that blood levels of leucine and other important structural proteins go up, allowing these proteins to perform a number of important signaling functions.

By | 2018-03-07T08:41:38-05:00 March 7th, 2018|Diet, Food, Natural Health, No SF, Nutrition & Herbs|Comments Off on ‘The Big Fat Surprise’ — Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Are Important Parts of a Healthy Diet
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Big Food starts anti-coconut oil campaign again, despite studies showing its great for your health

Yes, coconut oil does contain a high amount of saturated fat: 87 grams of saturated fat per 100-gram serving. That much is true. First and foremost, saturated fat has long been demonized as a harbinger of any number of diseases. While the war on saturated fat began in the 1950’s thanks to a cherry-picked study by Ancel Keys, the fact is that there is much evidence to the contrary. Saturated fat is not explicitly bad, as we’ve been lead to believe. For example, it is actually very important to keeping your brain healthy.

By | 2017-07-21T06:04:02-04:00 July 21st, 2017|Diet, Food, Natural Health, News, No SF, Resyndicated|Comments Off on Big Food starts anti-coconut oil campaign again, despite studies showing its great for your health
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