NEW STUDY ON SATURATED FAT AND HEART DISEASE LINK

It’s a long-held belief that saturated fat (the type found in butter, meat, and cheese) is to blame for an increased risk of heart disease and other cardiac events. A new analysis by international scientists recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, however, indicates that this may not actually be the case. The study suggests that other dietary factors may hold more of the blame than saturated fats when it comes to causing heart attack and stroke. The belief that saturated fat increases the risk for heart disease is grounded in the fact that saturated fat contains high levels of LDL cholesterol, the kind of cholesterol that increases an individual’s risk of heart attack. This new study, however, claims that the kind of LDL [ ] The post NEW STUDY ON SATURATED FAT AND HEART DISEASE LINK appeared first on Jeremy E. Korman, M.D., F.A.C.S..
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FDA BANS TRANS FAT

The FDA took a huge step towards bettering the health of our country this week when they announced that all food manufacturers must remove artificial trans fats from their products within the next three years. Trans fats have long been a part of the American diet—first introduced in the early 1900s—and that makes the FDA’s decision even more significant. While trans fats were originally pitched as less harmful than saturated fats, it has since become clear that they are actually directly linked to high body weight, heart disease, memory loss, and high cholesterol. Trans fat is a thicker, longer-lasting product with enhanced flavor that is cheaper to use in food production than other fats like lard or butter. Because of this, food manufacturers really like [ ] The post FDA BANS TRANS FAT appeared first on Jeremy E. Korman, M.D., F.A.C.S..
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THE COST OF OBESITY

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