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Dr. Ray Peat offered an alternative perspective. His dietary advice includes minimizing starches from bread, pasta rice cereal, etc, and instead obtaining healthy carbohydrates primarily from ripe, low-starchy fruits.

For decades, the American Heart Association (AHA) pushed the low-fat message. But today, the AHA is saying something quite different. In their massive 2015 report Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics, they buried a bombshell in the text.8 It says that five huge randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that total fat consumption does not affect

The takeaway from this shocking data is that corn and other processed oils (and sugar) are likely much more damaging to your blood vessels than saturated fat.

the safest level of added sugar consumption is zero.

The lowest-carb, highest-fat diets achieved superb improvements in just three weeks—with no reduction in calories. The lowest-carb diet that emphasized saturated fat was the best performer of all. This diet reduced trig/HDL by 44 percent in three weeks flat. That’s right: the high-fat diet nearly halved the most important cholesterol health metric

This is why I insist my patients undergo a DEXA scan annually—and I am far more interested in their visceral fat than their total body fat.

Studies too numerous to count have confirmed Dr. Price's observations that the so-called civilized diet, particularly the Western diet of refined carbohydrates and devitalized fats and oils, spoils our God-given genetic inheritance of physical perfection and vibrant health.