Health

Rethinking saturated fats

A paper that will most likely raise a lot of controversies was published in JACC beginning of august 2020, one of the top scientific journals in cardiology. The article goes through a lot more then I cover here, but I wanted to make accessible one of the main reasons why saturated fats have been erroneously demonized (if LDL and cholesterol are all clear for you here’s my main point: Under the presumption that either LDLc or all LDLp were important contributors to atherosclerosis, a diet that showed an increase in either of these was (and still is by most) considered dangerous and to be avoided).