| We have known for many decades that it is oxidized blood cholesterol that correlates with heart disease. Fred Kummerow showed this back in the '50s, 60+ years ago. But you can't get a blood test for oxidized cholesterol. Fred Kummerow spent his whole working life getting trans fats out of the US food pipeline. He proved trans fat was poison in 1957, and finally in 2009, under compulsion of a lawsuit, the FDA declared it toxic. Then, they issued no regulations restricting their use until forced by another lawsuit, in 2014. Then, they gave vendors 3 more years to put poison in stuff being sold as if it were food. In 2018 it was supposed to be illegal to sell trans fats as food, but a number of companies still do, under waivers. He died in 2017, at age 102. He spent the final two years of his life working on Parkinson's, which had taken his wife, since trans fats had (he thought) finally been outlawed. He was a great hero of experimentally-grounded health science. https://www.drmirkin.com/histories-and-mysteries/fred-kummer... India and Brazil are still struggling to get it outlawed. The big corporations have resisted because selling poison as if it were food remains profitable. We are still confused about fats. But a takeaway should be that nobody has ever found any evidence of harm from eating saturated fat, or benefit from eating unsaturated fat, despite decades trying. |