Be sure to check out “The Exonoration of Bacon: Saturated Fat Is Healthy,” an excellent piece over at Dan Hubbard’s website. It’s a great primer on how our contemporary “conventional wisdom” has erroneously shaped our attitudes towards saturated fat. Here’s an excerpt:
Animal fat has always been a significant part of human’s diets up until 100 years ago. At that point, food processing developed. The earliest reports of heart disease were in rare cases in the 1920s. Animal fat consumption decreased significantly from 1910-1970 due to the increased prevalence of processed foods and fear of the animal fat’s and cholesterol’s proposed negative relationship with heart disease. Concurrently, processed vegetable oils and processed carbohydrates increased significantly because of cheaper costs and longer shelf-lives.