New meta-study: dietary fat guidelines have no evidence base

I thought we already knew this?

the "fat is bad" myth died like 10 years ago

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I thought we already knew this?

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We do.

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the "fat is bad" myth died like 10 years ago

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Unfortunately, it's still fairly fringe. Most people think LCHF is insane due to the orthodoxy they've been pummeled with for years.

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The worst think about fats is that they are named fats.

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We should start calling it oil

The LCHF diet is working wonders for me. In just over two months I have lost 45 pounds and feel great. The first few weeks sucked because of lack of energy but now my energy levels are good to go.

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Fat=Cholesterol=Heart Disease=Death

I am anti-fattie because clearly.

I wasn't always anti-fattie as I had always interrupted good fats such as those in guac to unharmful. I was wrong, fat is fat. Are some people less prone to heart disease and higher cholesterol than others? Obviously... But in this day and age to not consider cholesterol is deadly.

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I'm really not exactly sure what you said here, but I think you're saying that Fat = Bad.

Well, let me tell you an anecdote about my personal experience. I am 33 years old now. I've had my cholesterol and triglycerides monitored since I was 24. They've been elevated since I started having them tested to the point where my doctor has been very close to putting me on statins, the only thing holding him back was my young age. I've been doing Keto for 3 months now, have lost 30 pounds, and just had my annual blood test. I've been eating a ton of avocados and using coconut oil for most things that need oil. For the first time since I started having it monitored 9 years ago, my cholesterol and triglycerides are at normal levels. I'm sure it has a lot to do with how many fewer calories I've been consuming, but to flat out say

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Fat=Cholesterol=Heart Disease=Death

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is naive IMO.

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I wasn't always anti-fattie as I had always interrupted good fats such as those in guac to unharmful. I was wrong, fat is fat. Are some people less prone to heart disease and higher cholesterol than others? Obviously... But in this day and age to not consider cholesterol is deadly.

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I typically stick to a fairly strict CKD diet where 5-6 days out of the week my diet is made up of 70% (give or take 5 points) of my diet comes from fats. The large majority of them being from avocado oil, with some saturated fats from beef, pork, heavy cream, cheese, and/or butter.

my HDL, LDL, VLDL, and all the rest of my levels are exactly where they need to be. Have them tested yearly for insurance.

Granted that is anecdotal, but not only are there good fats and bad fats, there are also good and bad types of cholesterol.

Maybe you are speaking from personal experience and maybe your diet was more out of whack than you think?

Problem is fatty foods are going to be high calorie compared to low fat. If you have the discipline to stay within your calories, that's fine. I'd rather eat lower fat so that I can eat more most of the time. It's not necessarily the fact that they are fat, just that they pack in the calories.

yep dietary fat really has no effect on blood levels. On paper it might look like your LDL is raised due to the foods you eat but if they examine the actual platelettes then they will see they are of the larger variety which are harmless.

true cholestrol is nothing more than your bodies way of dealing with inflamation. Most inflamation in Americans is caused by our shitty diet which ends up giving us extreme imbalances in our omega 3 to 6 to 9 ratio specifically 3 to 6. We eat way way too much omega 6 and never enough omega 3. Also almost all of the grains found here in America have been modified in some way and tend to cause inflamation in the body for most individuals.

Its why diets high in grass fed butter/beef/ wild fatty fish/ free range eggs/ free range fatty chicken/ avocados/ and certain oils do such a good job of fixing this imbalance and causing inflamation in general to go down which inturn makes hdl go up and ldl go down.