The Oiling of America

Tuesday night I attended a seminar, presented by Sally Fallon, entitled “The Oiling of America”. I have already posted a couple of blogs about saturated fats and their implications on health. In this seminar, I discovered even more compelling evidence as to how saturated fats and cholesterol levels do not correlate to having a high risk for developing heart disease.

Sally comments on the research and the researchers for many of these studies that show a link:

Researchers exaggerated trivial results using the concept of relative risk, used graphs with unequal intervals, …. and cherry picked results to find chance correlations.

When the data is scrutinized, removing the inconsistencies, the 40-Year Framingham Study, which is one of the most extensive studies ever done on this topic, shows an actual risk of increase for developing heart disease of only 0.13% between cholesterol levels of 182 and 244. Years after the Framingham Project, Dr. George Mann, former Associate Director of the project, had this to say:

The diet-heart hypothesis (low fat and cholesterol) has been repeatedly shown to be wrong, and yet, for complicated reasons of pride, profit and prejudice, the hypothesis continues to be exploited by scientists, fund-raising enterprises, food companies, and even government agencies. The public is being deceived by the greatest health scam of the century.

If you’d like to know more about the “greatest health scam of the century” read the full “The Oiling of America” article.

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