Dietary Fat Should Be No More Than 30% of Calories

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Dietary Fat Should Be No More Than 30% of Calories

This myth seems so true, innocent, wonderfully healthy and wholesome that most people swallow it without question, but it is the most deadly myth of all dietary dogma and lies. The fat phobia is the result of worldwide mental brainwashing. One does not have much choice but to increase carbohydrates in the diet to replace a reduction in fats, therein lies the road to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and the entire medical book of autoimmune diseases. Carbohydrates are slow in their destruction of the body, but they eventually prove to be extremely deadly. The delay between the start of a high-carbohydrate diet and disease has been labeled as the "20 year rule."

The low-fat Diet Actually Causes Diabetes and Heart Disease.

This is the true story of an acquaintance who has been living according to the recommendations of the American Medical Association (AMA), American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Diabetic Association (ADA), but still got hypoglycemia at age 52 and plugged heart arteries at age 59. There are millions of these cases each year in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia. This is the story of a real person.

David is a doctor employed at the local hospital. His wife, Susie, also works there. They have followed the AMA and AHA recommended low-fat diet religiously most of their adult lives. They always picked the low-fat selections in the grocery store and ate lots of "healthy" fruit and whole grains. They did recognize the necessity of eating meat but always selected the low-fat cuts, removed the visible fat on their plates and always removed the skin from chicken.

Dr. David and Susie were "health nuts." They jogged several times a week until it damaged Susie's knees. The switch was then made to hiking the mountain where they live and riding bikes on the mountain roads. Exercise was a major priority. They ran the local 10K race every year. When Susie could no longer run because of her knees, David continued to run the race religiously. It was the highlight of their health activity.

Neither Dr. David nor Susie was ever fat or overweight. They never went on yo-yo diets because it wasn't necessary. They never smoked or drank alcohol. They didn't eat many simple carbohydrates like sugar and white flour. They presented bodies that appeared to be the optimum in health but inside they were sick, sick, sick.

Dr. David's low-fat diet caused his hypoglycemia and heart disease. By age 52 Dr. David was having blood sugar metabolism problems. His blood sugar would surge when he ate his normal high-carbohydrate meals but plunged later giving the typical symptoms of someone who is pre-diabetic. Being a doctor, David followed the recommendations of the ADA and snacked on peanut butter and crackers between meals to keep his blood sugar stable. Dr. David's biggest disadvantage was being a doctor. He believed the nonsense put forth by the above professional societies. The low-fat diet is always high in carbohydrates and produces high blood insulin levels. Dr. David is suffering because he believed the "big fat lies" about the low-fat diet.

Dr. David was complacent about learning nutritional facts and didn't question recommendations put forth by his professional societies. He didn't do his own research into the history of heart disease. Otherwise, he would have discovered that heart disease was so rare in 1900 it was not listed in the medical books. He didn't realize the cook books of the era show people eating lots of saturated fat in the form of pork lard, beef suet, butter, bacon and eggs. Eating the skin from chicken and turkey was considered the "best part of the bird." Dr. David still doesn't realize the low-fat diet is an attempt by vegetarians to discourage the eating of animals and has nothing to do with healthy nutrition. He doesn't realize how deadly carbohydrates like fruit, bread, whole grains, cereals, sugar, flour, rice, potatoes and soy really are.

Dr. David must now decide which mechanical method to use to unplug his heart arteries. But what can he eat? He has been on the recommended low-fat diet for many years. His exercise has been unrelenting. His lifestyle was in perfect accordance with all the recommendations. His doctors will, no doubt, recommend the same diet for the cure when actually it was the cause of his heart disease. Dr. David is in big trouble. What does a doctor do now? His erroneous training had double-crossed him, and he doesn't even know it.

Insulin and Its Metabolic Effects by Ron Rosedale, M.D.

The low-fat Diet Causes Gallbladder Disease.

"The gallbladder resembles a pouch and collects green bile fluid as it drains from the liver through the common bile duct. This bile fluid is made, in part, to help with digestion (the salts in bile make it easier for you to digest fats). However, bile also contains some waste products including bilirubin (generated when old red blood cells are destroyed to make room for fresh ones) and cholesterol. Gallstones form when cholesterol or bilirubin particles begin to cluster together into a solid lump. The stone grows in size as the bile fluid washes over it, much like a pearl can form inside an oyster."
Gallbladder Disease and Gallstones.

The gallbladder collects bile fluid but does not discharge it all when a low-fat diet is eaten. This bile fluid stagnates causing the formation of gallstones from the precipitates. The gallstones get large enough to plug the discharge of the gallbladder bile duct. A single meal of fatty food can set off a gallbladder attack when the gallbladder attempts to discharge its contents including the stone or stones. Doctors generally remove the gallbladder rather than attempting to remove the stones. The common bile duct at the junction of the liver bile duct and the gallbladder bile duct cannot be removed when plugged; therefore, the stone must be removed.

A high-fat diet prevents gallbladder disease by causing the gallbladder to discharge the bile fluids for the digestion of the fats. The system remains healthy on the high-fat diet. Gallbladder disease has become epidemic as more people have switched to the low-fat diet during the last 40 years. One woman on a nutritional message board stated, "Several friends and I decided to go on a low-fat diet. We didn't lose any weight, but we all lost our gallbladder."