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The saturated fat myth debunked in two minutes and thirty five seconds

April 30, 2010 in Heart Disease, Myths & Truths | 41 comments

From the documentary Fat Headhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8WA5wcaHp4&feature=player_embedded&fmt=22 
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New study puts final nail in the “saturated fat causes heart disease” coffin

January 15, 2010 in Heart Disease | 27 comments

For more than five decades we've been brainwashed to believe that saturated fat causes heart disease. It's such a deeply ingrained belief that few people even question it. It's just part of our culture now.Almost every day one of my patients in the clinic tells me proudly that they have a "healthy" diet because they don't eat butter, cheese or red meat or any other foods high in saturated fat (nevermind that ...
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Breakfast of champions (with 88 grams of fat!)

December 17, 2009 in Food & Nutrition, Myths & Truths | 50 comments

A friend of mine was observing me making my breakfast the other day. She's been hip to the dangers of low-fat diets and the benefits of saturated fat for some time now, but even so she was pretty surprised with just how much fat I was plowing into my smoothie. We thought it might be fun to actually measure the amount and do a full nutritional analysis on my breakfast.Here's the recipe:1.5 ...
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More silly shenanigans against saturated fat

October 15, 2009 in Fertility, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Food & Nutrition, Medical Industrial Complex | 2 comments

I want to get some Juno-inspired T-shirts printed up for researchers that say "What other kind of shenanigans can I get into?" Seriously. I cannot believe the stuff that gets published in medical journals these days. I don't know which is the scarier possibility: that the researchers are really so poorly trained that they consistently violate the most basic principles of medical research (that you probably learned in your 8th grade science class), ...
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