This is a brilliant article about how health professionals and scientists actually helped bring about the health disaster we’re currently facing through bad advice rooted in the flawed hypothesis of a scientist at the University of Minnesota following the heart attack of President Eisenhower. I highly suggest reading it.

Here is an important excerpt from the article: “…It is a biological error to confuse what a person puts in their mouth with what it becomes after it is swallowed. The human body, far from being a passive vessel for whatever we choose to fill it with, is a busy chemical plant, transforming and redistributing the energy it receives.” A person does not get fat from eating fat. Our body has to create that fat in a way that is efficient; it takes sugar and turns it into fat. “Cholesterol, present in all of our cells, is created by the liver. Biochemists had long known that the more cholesterol you eat, the less your liver produces.” Think about that last sentence. Re-read it if you have to. This is key.

The Reader’s Digest version (a gunnery sergeant I used to work for in the Marines would say  that) is that humans have been consuming and digesting fats since we’ve been around; it’s even in breast milk. Sugar, on the other hand, has only entered our diet in the past 300 years which, from an evolutionary standpoint, is very recent. The health issues we are seeing that have cropped up in the past 60 years is directly related to our consumption of sugar. It is not fat, as believed, that is the culprit. Worse yet, a scientist in 1972 tried to warn us and he was run out of his field, ridiculed, and eventually discredited. Only now are we realizing how right he was and how wrong everyone else was.

Here’s something pretty convincing to me: “France, the country with the highest intake of saturated fat, has the lowest rate of heart disease; Ukraine, the country with the lowest intake of saturated fat, has the highest. When the British obesity researcher Zoë Harcombe performed an analysis of the data on cholesterol levels for 192 countries around the world, she found that lower cholesterol correlated with higher rates of death from heart disease.”

But don’t take my word for it. READ THE ARTICLE. The life you save may be your own.