The myth of healthy vegetable oils is being busted
A corner stone of the establishment is that saturated animal fat is bad for us and that vegetable oils are good. It is part of the larger fallacy about what is healthy eating and not.
Here are the summary conclusions of a recent study looking at men in Australia who ate either saturated fats or vegetable oils.
“Conclusions Advice to substitute polyunsaturated fats for saturated fats is a key component of worldwide dietary guidelines for coronary heart disease risk reduction. However, clinical benefits of the most abundant polyunsaturated fatty acid, omega 6 linoleic acid, have not been established.
In this cohort, substituting dietary linoleic acid in place of saturated fats increased the rates of death from all causes, coronary heart disease, and cardiovascular disease. An updated meta-analysis of linoleic acid intervention trials showed no evidence of cardiovascular benefit.
These findings could have important implications for worldwide dietary advice to substitute omega 6 linoleic acid, or polyunsaturated fats in general, for saturated fats.”
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