Wednesday
20May2009
Video: Saturated Fat Is Good For You
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 11:12AM Thanks to Chris from conditioningresearch.com for the heads up on this video. It's interesting listening to Mary G. Enig and Sally Fallon expand on how "unhealthy" saturated fat went from an idea into conventional wisdom. Definitely worth the watch.
The footage is originally from Tom Naughton's documentary Fat Head, which I don't recommend.
tagged Common Misconceptions, Videos
Common Misconceptions, Videos
Reader Comments (7)
" Fat Head, which I don't recommend" Just wonderin', why not?
Thanks for reading Deanna!
I don't recommend it because the movie is all over the place. In one scene Naughton is explaining how calories don't matter and fat is accumulated by excessive glucose and inslulin resistance. In the next scene he indicates that calories are the culprit behind weight gain. Maybe it's worth watching, but I'm not a fan. I was hoping it would be better.
Yeah....Mary Enig looks healthy!
And Sally Fallon doesn't look much better. I agree that processed oils are detrimental to health. However, cooked animal fats are just as bad. Raw fats are what we need.
Thanks for commenting Jeff,
I'm not going to argue with you there Jeff, I completely agree. Since I don't have either of their food diaries, I can't speculate on what they did or did not eat.
I'm not sure I understand why cooked animal fats are as bad as processed vegetable oils. Saturated fat is extremely stable under high temperatures, whereas vegetable oils go rancid rather easily.
"cooked animal fats are as bad as processed vegetable oils."
Do you have any evidence at all for that very unusual comment?
Thanks for commenting George,
Not likely.
Excellent video - I think I came over here from a link by Eades, whose evidence-based approach I respect (I think I discovered him through Gary Taubes, who I know, and whose work I recommend constantly...many of my readers have lost large sums of weight rather effortlessly, thanks to reading Good Calories, Bad Calories). Going to blog this and follow your blog.
PS I'm an advice columnist, and I have a lot of sad fat women who write to me -- sad and fat because they follow what doctors and others tell them to eat: the high-carb, low-fat diet.