Eating fat vs. getting fat

Our current cultural obsession with reducing saturated fats and animal proteins from our diets will be the end of us.  For fifty years we’ve been following the advice of the Department of Agriculture and the American Heart Association. Myriads of so-called “unbiased” studies and nutritional experts have peddled their influences to promote the false premise that heart disease, cholesterol and overall health is improved if we eat less fat. American’s have reduced fats in their diets by 10 percent since 1970 and cut back even more on saturated fats. We’ve replaced those lost healthy calories with obesity-producing carbs and processed sugars. Now we’re the second fattest nation on earth (the only nation fatter is Mexico). As a result, heart disease rates have shot up, as have the corresponding rates of diabetes. In 1960, only one out of 100 people in the United States had Type 2 diabetes; today it’s a whopping one out of 10.  In 1960, one out of seven Americans was classified as obese. Today it’s ballooned up to one out of three.