Hi all,
The American Heart Association has released their 2021 recommendations. Highlights include:
- "Use Liquid Plant Oils Rather Than Tropical Oils (Coconut, Palm, and Palm Kernel), Animal Fats (Butter and Lard), and Partially Hydrogenated Fats"
- "Choose and Prepare Foods With Little or No Salt"
Of course, such recommendations come with a grain of salt (pun intended). From within the echo chamber of the AHA, notice the circular references to the authors and bias to ignore the vast swathes of emperical evidence that contradicts their dogma. Dogmas such as the pseudo-benefits of reducing blood pressure due to salt deficiency (dehydration, forms of malnutrition, and infectious disease will also reduce blood pressure).
They also based the seed oils on the dogma that they lower cholesterol which is good and piles of statistically insignificant results. They failed to mention their negative effects such as thyroid suppression, inflammation, lipofuscin, increased prostaglandins, radical oxidative damage, chemical instability, lack of infectious protection compared to saturated oils, advanced glycation end-products, the necessity of cholesterol (with co-factors) for steroidogenesis, and the experimental results of Fred Kummerow (https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000510).
It is true that there is experimental evidence that excess saturated fats can cause steatosis of the heart and liver, and more fat gain on a caloric basis, this doesn't justify the switch over to PUFAs in light of the other potential negative impacts, rather it implies to consume saturated oils in moderation as part of the overall caloric intake.
Source: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001031
@Rinse & rePeat
The American Heart Association has released their 2021 recommendations. Highlights include:
- "Use Liquid Plant Oils Rather Than Tropical Oils (Coconut, Palm, and Palm Kernel), Animal Fats (Butter and Lard), and Partially Hydrogenated Fats"
- "Choose and Prepare Foods With Little or No Salt"
Of course, such recommendations come with a grain of salt (pun intended). From within the echo chamber of the AHA, notice the circular references to the authors and bias to ignore the vast swathes of emperical evidence that contradicts their dogma. Dogmas such as the pseudo-benefits of reducing blood pressure due to salt deficiency (dehydration, forms of malnutrition, and infectious disease will also reduce blood pressure).
They also based the seed oils on the dogma that they lower cholesterol which is good and piles of statistically insignificant results. They failed to mention their negative effects such as thyroid suppression, inflammation, lipofuscin, increased prostaglandins, radical oxidative damage, chemical instability, lack of infectious protection compared to saturated oils, advanced glycation end-products, the necessity of cholesterol (with co-factors) for steroidogenesis, and the experimental results of Fred Kummerow (https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000510).
It is true that there is experimental evidence that excess saturated fats can cause steatosis of the heart and liver, and more fat gain on a caloric basis, this doesn't justify the switch over to PUFAs in light of the other potential negative impacts, rather it implies to consume saturated oils in moderation as part of the overall caloric intake.
Source: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001031
@Rinse & rePeat
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