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Whole milk vs skim milk sugar11/22/2023 So in other words the foods that were high in saturated fat like dairy and meat had a different quality back in the day, and they were eating a whole lot less of them.Īlso LDL can be lowered through rigorous physical activity (only if it’s on a regular basis) and back in the day the average person did a lot more physical labor, I would estimate 4 to 5 hours more than they do today. Our lifestyles were totally different back then, highly physical and active along with much smaller portion sizes, and a lot less processed foods-also they still had grass fed animals which is another factor to consider. One thing I will say about your comment on LDL and primitive cultures– or even Americans 80 years ago-it’s not really an accurate comparison to what is happening today. But I do agree with you on the problem of overall calorie intake, sugar, and processed carbs. The average healthy woman on a 2000 calorie diet a day is looking for 50 to 60 grams of fat daily– but mono and polyunsaturated of course. Thanks for this Jim Healthy, great stuff! Thanks so much for sharing, very interesting indeed – but to set the record straight, I do not subscribe to a “low-fat” diet, I’m only saying to monitor saturated fat intake. “Low-fat living” appears to be prescription widespread disease. So-called “modern” low-fat dietary advice has given us co-epidemics of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, and obesity. At he turn of the last centry, when heart disease and heart attack were practically non-existent, our population consumed whole fat dairy products exclusively, ate lots of meat, and even cooked with lard. Mankind evolved on a high-fat diet (especially saturated fat). A more likely culprit is the massive amouint of sugar and refined carbs in our diet since the 1950s, when heart disease rates first started to spike. Saturated fat has taken the rap for causing CVD for more thare six decades no, but the link is spurious and unproven. Furthermore, no major study has ever been able to show that a low-fat diet reduces the incidence of CVD or mortality from it (and this includes the really big studies such as MRFIT, WHI, and the Nurses Health Study). And while there is a lot of controvery and debate about whether LDL cholesterol is a serious risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), researchers are unanymous in their agreement that HDL is protective against it - and that it is far healthier to have high HDL than low LDL. The saturated fat in whole milk does indeed raise total cholesterol and LDL - but it also raises protective HDL.
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