Saturated fats are NOT the problem!
— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) March 24, 2024
The rates of cardiovascular disease and metabolic dysfunction have skyrocketed since seed oils invaded in our diets…
There are many studies suggesting that saturated fats are good for humans. (PMID: 30087348, 6538617, 9327759, 24740208)… pic.twitter.com/FijByhSvnQ
Then something happened in 1950 with Ancel Keys and the 7 countries study. Eisenhower had his heart attack in 1955. His cardiologist was Paul Dudley White. The American Heart Association got a $1.7 million donation, the equivalent of $20 million today from Proctor & Gamble who make Crisco vegetable oil. And then the American Heart Association begins talking about how saturated fats are bad, and polyunsaturated fats are good. And there are literally advertisements from the 1960s talking about how you should polyunsaturated your family.
from NCBI,
The 1961 AHA advice to limit saturated fat is arguably the single-most influential nutrition policy ever published, as it came to be adopted first by the U.S. government, as official policy for all Americans, in 1980, and then by governments around the world as well as the World Health Organization. It is worth noting that the AHA had a significant conflict of interest, since in 1948, it had received $1.7 million, or about $20 million in today's dollars, from Procter & Gamble (P&G), the makers of Crisco oil [2]. This donation was transformative for the AHA, propelling what was a small group into a national organization; the P&G funds were the ‘bang of big bucks’ that ‘launched’ the group, according to the organization's own official history [7]. Vegetable oils such as Crisco have reaped the benefits of this recommendation ever since, as Americans increased their consumption of these oils by nearly 90% from 1970 to 2014 [8].
