Trying maintenance

(Susannah ) #1

And I am trucking along and enjoying my Keto, I stumble upon this disturbing article. Can someone please help me understand this???https://www.newsweek.com/coconut-oil-pure-poison-says-harvard-professor-1082046

(Karen) #2

You can ignore anything from Harvard.
Yes mostly saturated fat 91%, but as we know saturated fats are not harmful cardiovascularly.

K

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #3

As I posted in the other two threads, the professor described in the article says that coconut oil is more dangerous than lard because it almost exclusively contains saturated fatty acids, ones that can clog the coronary arteries.

  • Coconut oil contains a significant percentage of monounsaturated fats, which is why it is the source of many brands of MCT oil.

  • The idea that saturated fat in the diet “clogs the arteries” has been thoroughly debunked. In fact, the highest concentration of triglycerides in the blood is caused by eating carbohydrate, not fat. This was shown in several early studies.

The Harvard School of Public Health was founded by money from the sugar industry, from which it still gets a fair amount of research money. Since Frederick Stare, the school’s founder and first director, took money from the sugar industry to write research studies blaming obesity and diabetes on saturated fat (so as to take public scrutiny off the ill effects of sugar), it is not surprising that the school would hire a professor who feels the way Karin Michels does.

The surprising part is that the Business Insider article actually mentions a couple of recent studies showing benefits of a ketogenic diet. Those paragraphs were not picked up in Newsweek, but instead, the author quotes Dr. Marie-Pierre St. Onge of Columbia University in rebuttal. It’s nice to see the media doing some research of their own, now!

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #4

Well if it is poison, I should be dead by now. Two years of eating it almost daily. The media must fill space between their ads, they print anything, often getting it totally wrong from what the person even said. Check NHI and other sources for science, not Newsweek and Business Insider.