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Derek
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The first thought I had reading this study was that it's probably funded by the dairy industry. Then you can find another study saying PUFA decreases CVD and SFA increases; which is likely put out by the seed oil industry. So then what's the truth? I think all the talk about praising one fat and demonizing the other is beside the point. People are over consuming fat, whether it be peanut butter or ice cream, it doesn't really matter. Too much fat will cause inflammation. Then you add sugar to this, sugar combined with fat of any type is going to cause arterial damage.
The PUFA/SFA ratio doesn't really matter. PUFA causes the damage you speak of and SFA has to heal and repair that damage in the arteries by clogging them. So I guess the message would be to just eat saturated fat and no PUFA, but it's not that easy because sugar in the presence of a high fat diet can also cause arteriosclerosis and increase the risk of CVD even if no to very low PUFA is consumed. This is evidenced by some of my friends who eat no PUFA oils or fats and tons of ice cream and have CVD! So then is it the sugar or the saturated fat causing their problems? Well knowing that most diets that have been used to heal heart disease successfully emphasized low to no fat and very high carb (sometimes up to a pound of sugar a day) this leads me to believe that all fat causes CVD/arteriosclerosis!
The PUFA/SFA ratio doesn't really matter. PUFA causes the damage you speak of and SFA has to heal and repair that damage in the arteries by clogging them. So I guess the message would be to just eat saturated fat and no PUFA, but it's not that easy because sugar in the presence of a high fat diet can also cause arteriosclerosis and increase the risk of CVD even if no to very low PUFA is consumed. This is evidenced by some of my friends who eat no PUFA oils or fats and tons of ice cream and have CVD! So then is it the sugar or the saturated fat causing their problems? Well knowing that most diets that have been used to heal heart disease successfully emphasized low to no fat and very high carb (sometimes up to a pound of sugar a day) this leads me to believe that all fat causes CVD/arteriosclerosis!