This was posted on another newsgroup:
QUOTE: "Swank theorized that people with MS had been consuming far too much
saturated fat (found in meat).
He found that those eating low-fat diets (less than 20 grams daily)
suffered only "slight" myelin deterioration and 95 percent survived
the study. In contrast, 80 percent of the patients eating moderate to
high-fat diets (25 to 41 grams daily) had a serious progression of
their MS symptoms, with only 20 percent living through the end of the
study."
http://www.thenutritionreporter.com/MS-Polio_of_the_90s.html UNQUOTE.
I responded with: QUOTE: Great example of how the phrase, "saturated fat," which has no precise
scientific meaning, can be "twisted" to support just about any
conclusion. The scientific reality (as opposed to this nonsense) is
that saturated fatty acids do not contribute to biochemical
instability, which is why they have been fed to pregnant animals and
can hinder the pregnancy (depending upon exact circumstances, and so
this claim is beyond silly. In fact, it is the combination of
unsaturated fatty acids in the meat (and of course many people now use
highly unsaturated oils to cook meat with, making it worse) and cooked
meat that generate very dangerous molecules, like HCAs. Thank for
this great example of what I call "saturated fat" scare tactics... UNQUOTE.
All that needs to be done is to have a control group that eats a diet like mine. This would be the scientifically appropriate thing to do, yet it is never considered in nations like the USA. Why? Because they think "saturated fat" is so dangerous that it's "unethical" to feed people such diets! Thus, their minds are totally closed, and about as unscientific as is imaginable, especially in light of the raw demographic data - tens of millions of Asians have had very high "saturated fat" diets, due to coconut consumption, and if "saturated fat" was indeed "bad," the raw data (on cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc.) would bear this out, yet the opposite is the case. Anyone who ignores this data, which I consider the greatest inadvertent nutritional experiment in the history of science, is just demonstrating that he or she is a buffoon rather than a scientist. |
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