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"Two substances in the diet appear to control the plasma level of cholesterol: the cholesterol and the saturated fat that you eat. Saturated fats are usually solid at room temperature. Foods such as butter, cheese, cream, beef, pork, lamb, and chocolate are rich in saturated fats. The ingestion of saturated fats makes serum cholesterol levels rise. Unsaturated fats are usually liquids at room temperature. Corn oil, cottonseed oil, safflower oil, and other vegetable oils are rich in unsaturated fats. The ingestion of unsaturated fats makes serum cholesterol levels fall." - Frank A. Oski, M.D., Don't Drink Your Milk (Get the book.)

"He then went on to state, "Complete absence of saturated fat in a daily diet might prove beneficial to general health, particularly in relation to cardiac and other circulatory diseases." Most saturated fats of course, come from animal products—products that also contain proteins that are perhaps even more damaging than saturated fats. It could be that the correlation between saturated fats and MS that Dr. Swank so convincingly discovered is as much a correlation between animal foods and their proteins as it is to saturated fats." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"Men Should Cut the Fat A with so many ailments, consumption of lots of saturated fat and sugar coupled with a sedentary lifestyle dramatically increases chances of developing gallstones, according to a recent study at the University of Buffalo. The correlation between saturated fat intake and gallstones was significantly stronger for men than for women. The good news: A diet rich in monounsaturated fat and fiber can help prevent gallstones. • Go for the Crunch C/hinese medical doctors suggest eating crunchy fruits and vegetables to cleanse, or flush out, the gallbladder." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Palm oil, coconut oil, and cocoa butter contain large amounts of saturated fat. Monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats may actually lower your blood cholesterol levels when they replace saturated fat in your diet. Foods rich in monounsaturated fat include olive oil, canola oil, and nuts. High levels of polyunsaturated fat are found in most cooking oils. Reducing your saturated fat intake may result in lowering your cholesterol consumption, because many high-fat foods are also rich in cholesterol. It is equally important to cut back on your total fat intake." - James F. Durante, Cheryl L. Durante, John G., M.D. Furiasse, The Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome / Dysautonomia Survival Guide (Get the book.)

"The type of dietary fat profile linked to insulin resistance is an abundance of saturated fat and trans fatty acids along with a relative insufficiency of monounsaturated and omega-3 fatty acids. This means that in order to improve insulin action, we should reduce our intake of saturated fats by eating leaner cuts of meat and choosing nonfat dairy options, as well as eliminating trans fatty acids from our diet and focusing instead on monounsaturated fatty acids and omega-3 fatty acids. The best sources of monounsaturated fats are olive oil, nuts, nut oils, and canola oil." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"Trimming the fat off a pork chop, for example, can lower the saturated fat from 13 grams to 4 grams. To protect your heart, limit saturated fats to less than 10 percent of your total calories. Polyunsaturated fats. These fats lower bad LDL cholesterol, but they also lower good HDL cholesterol. A little bit of polyunsaturated fats, like safflower oil and sunflower oil, in your diet is all right, but don't overdo it. Hydrogenated vegetable shortenings and margarines, processed from polyunsaturated fats, act like saturated fats in your bloodstream." - the Editors of FC&A Medical Publishing, Eat and Heal (Foods That Can Prevent or Cure Many Common Ailments) (Get the book.)

"Isn't butter high in saturated fat?" Absolutely, and let's put that bugaboo to rest. Natural saturated fats in moderation are not a problem. They do not raise cholesterol levels. They do not lead to heart disease. In fact, there is actually a diet that helps people lose weight, and lower cholesterol levels while eating as much meat and eggs and natural saturated fat as they like." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"We have been told that this increase is due to an increase in saturated fats, but from 1910 to 1970 saturated fat consumption plummeted as the use of vegetable oils, in the form of margarine, shortening, and refined oils, rose 400 percent. So, obviously, avoiding fat is not the answer. In fact, the Framingham study—the mother of all fat studies—proved just that. After forty years, those who consumed more cholesterol and saturated fat had lower cholesterol levels over time." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Saturated fats are necessary for proper brain function (the major fat in the brain is saturated fat) and they also provide strength to our cell walls. Good saturated fats are essential to life. (For more on saturated fats, see Chapter 3, "Fats and Oils".) Red meat contains B vitamins such as B2, B6, and B12. B12 is not found readily available in the plant family and many vegetarians may become deficient in Vitamin B12. Vitamins C and E are also found in meat, in addition to many minerals such as magnesium, zinc, selenium, and iron." - M.D. David Brownstein, The Guide to Healthy Eating (Get the book.)

"A huge factor in considering significant flesh consumption is that even raw meat has large amounts of saturated fat. If you have seen the video Diet for a New America, you will recall the scene in which Dr. Michael Klaper pulls a long, hardened tube of animal-derived, saturated fat from a man's artery. saturated fat is solid at room temperature, and it is implicated in heart disease. Not much research has been done with raw meat eaters. Still, it can be argued that the Eskimos ate a lot of raw blubber and remained healthy." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Then there's the fact that the classic Eskimo diet consists of 80% saturated fat? That's 80% saturated fat (primarily from raw fat and raw meat)! And yet, in a study of 3,000 of these people, not one of them had high cholesterol, heart disease, arteriosclerosis, or high blood pressure. And only one of the 3,000 was even slightly overweight. Now don't get me wrong, I am not advocating that you live on seal blubber like the Eskimos and raw meat like the Pottenger cats." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "In fact, there is actually a diet that helps people lose weight, and lower cholesterol levels while eating as much meat and eggs and natural saturated fat as they like.' The two reasons this diet works are (1) natural saturated fats do not cause heart problems, and (2) all versions of this diet call for the elimination of snack foods, processed foods, sugared foods, foods containing any trans-fatty acids, and foods high on the glycemic index. 4." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Beginning in the 1960s, however, Westerners were weaned from saturated fat to the notion that the lighter the oil, the greater its PUFA content, and the better it was for you. So, corn, sunflower, and safflower oils, among other light oils, became the norm in both spreads and cooking. In summary, omega-6 oils became the most popular oil used. Our shift from saturated fat to polyunsaturated fat was instigated by widespread concern about heart disease. The idea was that we could keep eating a high-fat diet if the fat in the diet was a little better for us." - James Scala Ph.D., 20 Natural Ways to Reduce the Risk of Prostate Cancer : A Mind-Body Approach to Health and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Even low-fat milk contains significant amounts of saturated fat, which will clog arteries. In addition, fully 50 million Americans are lactose intolerant. For them, ingesting milk causes gastrointestinal upsets. Milk consumption has also been linked to the development of prostate cancer. Casein, the major protein in milk, has been shown in animal studies to powerfully promote cancer growth.5 3. USDA recommendation: "Consume less than 10 percent of calories from saturated fat and less than 300 mg/day of cholesterol, and keep trans-fatty acid consumption as low as possible." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) "At the end of five years, he found that those monkeys consuming monounsaturated fat did show higher levels of HDL (good) cholesterol and lower levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol, but autopsies on them showed that they had developed just as much coronary disease as those fed saturated fat.3 Rudel later repeated the experiment using rodents and obtained the same result." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Michael Klaper pulls a long, hardened tube of animal-derived, saturated fat from a man's artery. saturated fat is solid at room temperature, and it is implicated in heart disease. Not much research has been done with raw meat eaters. Still, it can be argued that the Eskimos ate a lot of raw blubber and remained healthy. Raw meat contains no trans fat, and perhaps this is the real culprit in heart disease. Cooked meat is definitely dangerous in this arena. Dr." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"You can reduce the amount of saturated fat you eat by choosing low-fat or fat-free dairy products and sticking to lean cuts of meat. Trimming the fat off a pork chop, for example, can lower the saturated fat from 13 grams to 4 grams. To protect your heart, limit saturated fats to less than 10 percent of your total calories. Polyunsaturated fats. These fats lower bad LDL cholesterol, but they also lower good HDL cholesterol. A little bit of polyunsaturated fats, like safflower oil and sunflower oil, in your diet is all right, but don't overdo it." - the Editors of FC&A Medical Publishing, Eat and Heal (Foods That Can Prevent or Cure Many Common Ailments) (Get the book.)

"When the fat becomes solid, the body treats it more like a saturated fat, although it is not classified as saturated fat on food labels. But hydrogenation has serious health consequences because it creates trans fats.Trans fats are polyunsaturated vegetable oils that have been processed to make them remain solid at room temperature. Trans fats also come from frying food in polyunsaturated vegetable oils, such as corn oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil, and soy oil, all of which are not bad for you until they are heated." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Both butter and coconut oil are a saturated fat and, as such, are stable during the heating process—they do not change shape and are easier for us to digest than a heated, unsaturated fat. For this reason heated, saturated fats in small quantities occasionally can be tolerated by most people without any serious problems. We have been led to believe by the oil and margarine advertising companies that all vegetable fats are better than any animal fats. But is this true? Let us compare the relative merits of butter and margarine. Butter is not heated during processing." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"In addition, studies suggest that the high intake of saturated fat worsens insulin resistance in obese individuals. Since most Americans are deficient in omega-3 fatty acids and consume too much omega-6 fat, we need to focus on monounsaturated and omega-3 sources (see "Beneficial Fats," page 100). Monounsaturated fats such as olive oil have a number of beneficial effects. For example, studies show that people who consume olive oil as their main source of fat have lower rates of cardiovascular disease." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"And curiously, although the guidelines recommend reduced intake of saturated fat and cholesterol, the words "egg," "beef," and "dairy" do not appear anywhere in the executive summary. (Animal products such as egg yolks, red meat, and dairy fat are the primary dietary sources of saturated fat and cholesterol, and therefore reducing intake of these foods is an integral part of the "therapeutic lifestyle interventions" suggested in the guidelines." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The saturated fats are considered harmful because it is impossible to metabolize them completely. saturated fat deposits cause arteriosclerosis, cardiovascular diseases, embolism, and brain hemorrhages. To them we also attribute increases in colon, prostate, and breast cancers, along with metabolic diseases like diabetes. Unsaturated Fats Unsaturated fats have a less uniform configuration so they remain in liquid form at room temperature. Foods rich in unsaturated fats include olive oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, soy oil and peanut oil." - Francisco, M.D. Contreras, Health in the 21st Century: Will Doctors Survive? (Get the book.)

"The correlation between saturated fat intake and gallstones was significantly stronger for men than for women. The good news: A diet rich in monounsaturated fat and fiber can help prevent gallstones. • Go for the Crunch C/hinese medical doctors suggest eating crunchy fruits and vegetables to cleanse, or flush out, the gallbladder. Other nutritional options not often suggested by Western doctors include eating radishes between meals. • Another Reason to Eat Breakfast If you're experiencing gallbladder pain after meals, try spreading your caloric intake out over the course of the day." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"In times of stress, the heart actually draws upon the reserve of saturated fat surrounding it for energy. Sixty percent of the brain is made up of saturated fat. And saturated fats actually lend a hand with the development and structure of every cell in the body as each cell's membrane is comprised entirely of fat. (If trans fats are the primary source of fat in the diet, the body creates inferior cell membranes.) In general, saturated fats are commonly found in meats, dairy, poultry, nuts, and seeds." - Pat Sullivan, Wellness Piece by Piece: How a Successful Entrepreneur Discovered the Pieces to His Chronic Health Puzzle (Get the book.)

"But meat remained a consistent contributor to heart disease, which isn't that surprising, because it has a high level of saturated fat. So out of that we started asking questions about other fatty foods, and one of the ones we focused on was nuts." At the time, clinical nutritionists were telling people to stay away from all fatty foods and snack foods, including nuts. "But," Fraser said, cleaving the air with both palms for emphasis, "it turns out that most of the fat in nuts is unsaturated fat." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"The studies that show that saturated fat in diets lead to cancer and heart disease may just be looking at the health of those in group one. As the old adage goes, "everything in moderation." For year, the Mediterranean diet has toted benefits for cardiovascular health. It uses mainly olive oil and fish in this diet. Olive oil, like other plant-based fats have a heating point at which the oil tends to oxidize. Butter, lard and coconut oil are said to be saturated fats but they can be heated to a high temperature for cooking without turning into a trans-fat." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "Hot-dogs* loin, Pork, tenderloin Tofu, low fat ground sirloin, spare ribs Turkey, breast, no skin Sausages Veal, leg Veal, loin FATS* FATS* FATS* Fat Free Salad Dressings** Butter* Coconut Oil* Canola Oil* Flaxseed oil, do not heat* (Butter and coconut oil are Lard (lard is a saturated fat but it Grapeseed oil saturated fats but withstand high withstands a high temperature for Olive oil* temperature for cooking and do cooking without oxidizing) not turn into a trans fat." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Four 8-ounce glasses of whole milk provide 180 calories from saturated fat, exceeding the allotted amount. Liquid vegetable and corn oils are rich in polyunsaturated fat. Polyunsaturated fat lowers the LDL (unhealthy) cholesterol but also lowers the HDL or (healthy) cholesterol. Hydrogenated polyunsaturated fats, found in commercially baked goods and margarine, are rich in trans fatty acids and act in a similar fashion as saturated fats to clog the arteries and impede the flow of blood to the heart." - Laurie Deutsch Mozian, M.S., R.D., Foods That Fight Disease: A Simple Guide to Using and Understanding Phytonutrients to Protect and Enhance Your Health (Get the book.)

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