Posted on Mar 8, 2012 in
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In spite of what you may have read, including some of those edicts distributed by government health officials, saturated fat is important for your diet and it’s not only okay to eat, it can be very beneficial. All we hear is that saturated fat clogs our arteries and gives us heart problems, leading to a higher mortality rate which is enough to scare anybody away from buying it. It’s trendy to rail against saturated fats and to promote supposedly healthy alternatives. We should bear in mind though going back thousands and thousands of years, humans have been eating diets which contain a lot of saturated fat since time began. Is it possible that the way we have evolved has caused us to go through a significant change in the way that we handle these fats, leading to a considerable amount of bad press, or are we just being given the wrong answer? It seems that this second point is more likely.