Showing posts with label Theory of Saturated Fat Triggers Heart Disease Questioned. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theory of Saturated Fat Triggers Heart Disease Questioned. Show all posts

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Theory of Saturated Fat Triggers Heart Disease Questioned

So far, health experts continue to warn us of the dangers of saturated fat because it can increase the risk of heart disease . Which is considered a healthy diet is the least saturated fat content .

However , this assumption is called into question by a new study in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine which says , saturated fat is not a single nutritional factors that trigger heart disease .
Prompts for reducing saturated fat foods , such as cheese , butter , or red meat originally came from a study from the University of Minnesota in the 1950 study conducted by Ancel Benjamin Keys .

Research conducted in 7 countries concluded that saturated fats can increase cholesterol levels that increase the risk of heart disease . Since then , the dogma of saturated fat causes heart disease was widely spread throughout the world .
But then , a number of criticisms leveled at the Keys study . Criticism based on some norm deviation basic science conducted by Keys .
One of them , a study conducted Keys are not randomly select countries targeted in the analysis , but rather choose countries that prove the hypothesis , namely Yugoslavia , Finland , and Italy .