Great post today from Kelly the Kitchen Kop which includes a video from a cardiologist speaking at a conference to other doctors on the myth of saturated fat. I urge you to watch the video and give it some thought. Some great quotes:
“100 years ago less than 1 in 100 Americans were obese and coronary heart disease was unknown. Pneumonia, diarrhea and enteritis, and tuberculosis were the most common causes of death. Now a century later, heart disease and cancer are the most common causes of death which account for 75% of all deaths in this country. There were 500 cardiologists practicing it he U.S. in 1950, there are 30,000 of them now, a 60-fold increase, in a population that has only doubled since 1950. In 1911 Proctor & Gamble began marketing Crisco, as a new kind of food. Crisco, “crystallized cottonseed oil”, was the 1st commercially marketed trans fat… They decided to promote this new fat as an all-vegetable derived shortening, which the company marketed as a healthier alternative than cooking with animal fats. At the time, Americans cooked and baked in lard/pork fat, tallow/beef fat, lamb fat, and butter. The company succeeded in demonizing lard and vegetable oil gradually replaced tropical fats and animal fats in the diet…“
Since starting this blog I have been getting questions and feedback from many of you, my friends, about nutrition and health concerns. We don’t talk about our health much in a nutritional context but we should. As Kelly writes:
“How many depressed, infertile, chronically ill people do you know?!” I would add to that list our children as well – even more importantly. As it turns out quite a few. You truly are what you eat.
What do you think? Please post your comments. I am thinking about doing a screening of this video and another from ‘Nourishing our Children‘ at my home where we can watch and discuss together – message me if you are interested.
