{"id":3571,"date":"2014-07-27T07:56:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T11:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2014-07-27T07:57:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T11:57:54","slug":"driving-steak-sic-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/driving-steak-sic-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving a steak (sic) through the heart&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.of the fat and cholesterol nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Dr. Joseph Mercola column sums up all the recent research on saturated fats and cholesterol and concludes we&#8217;ve been &#8220;had&#8221;.\u00a0 Natural saturated\u00a0fats are great for you&#8230;.and so are high cholesterol numbers!\u00a0 What?<\/p>\n<p>The real villain, of course, is sugar!<\/p>\n<p>So who sold us the bill of goods?\u00a0 To quote Mercola:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span id=\"ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_tr_tr_tr_rptStory_ctl02_cslStory\">With regard to heart health, nutrition policy has been derailed over the past half-century by corporate greed, political agendas, and bad science<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em><span id=\"ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_tr_tr_tr_rptStory_ctl03_cslStory\">A new meta-analysis involving a half million people found that those eating more saturated fats do NOT have more heart disease than those eating less<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><span id=\"ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_tr_tr_tr_rptStory_ctl04_cslStory\">Cholesterol is critical for building your cell membranes, interacting with proteins inside cells, regulating your cell signaling and other biological processes<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the whole story but note: you may have to scroll down through blank space to get at it.\u00a0 At least on my computer it was true.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2014\/07\/27\/saturated-fat-cholesterol.aspx\">http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2014\/07\/27\/saturated-fat-cholesterol.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With all the evidence, it is remarkable how little of it has seeped into the public consciousness.\u00a0 Almost every day someone tells me they&#8217;re cutting back on red meat because of the fat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.of the fat and cholesterol nonsense. This week&#8217;s Dr. Joseph Mercola column sums up all the recent research on saturated fats and cholesterol and concludes we&#8217;ve been &#8220;had&#8221;.\u00a0 Natural saturated\u00a0fats are great for you&#8230;.and so are high cholesterol numbers!\u00a0 What? The real villain, of course, is sugar! So who sold us the bill of goods?\u00a0 To quote Mercola: With regard to heart health, nutrition policy has been derailed over the past half-century by corporate greed, political agendas, and bad science A new meta-analysis involving a half million people found that those eating more saturated fats do NOT have more heart disease than those eating less Cholesterol is critical for building your cell membranes, interacting with proteins inside cells, regulating your cell signaling and other biological processes Here&#8217;s the whole story but note: you may have to scroll down through blank space to get at it.\u00a0 At least on my computer it was true. http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2014\/07\/27\/saturated-fat-cholesterol.aspx With all the evidence, it is remarkable how little of it has seeped into the public consciousness.\u00a0 Almost every day someone tells me they&#8217;re cutting back on red meat because of the fat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,22,9,35,91,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet","category-food","category-health","category-meat","category-mercola","category-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}