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Going back to World War II again, we see this is where polyunsaturated fats started to become popular. According to “Good Calories, Bad Calories” by Gary Taubes, between 1945 and 1976 margarine consumption increased from four to nine pounds per American each year, salad and cooking oils from seven to 18 pounds. During the worst decades of the heart disease epidemic, vegetable fat consumption in the U.S. nearly doubled from 28 to 55 pounds.
During the above time period, saturated fats declined. Whole milk dropped in favor of skim, cream was cut in half, butter went from eight to four pounds per person, and lard from 13 to seven pounds. Consumption in animal fat, including meat, eggs, cheese, and milk products dropped from 84 to 71 pounds.
President Dwight Eisenhower’s battle with heart disease
President Eisenhower served as our president from 1953 to 1961. His first heart attack came in 1955 about a year after he took office. At the time, his cholesterol was below normal at 165. In 1959, he read about a group of middle-aged New Yorkers attempting to lower their cholesterol by eliminating saturated fats. From then on, he ate very little saturated fat.
His meals were cooked in soybean oil or the new polyunsaturated margarine, which appeared on the market in 1958. With these changes, his weight went up and his cholesterol began to rise. The president died 14 years after his first heart attack, experiencing a half dozen more myocardial infarctions.
Whom do we believe?
Just as drugs are advertised directly to the public through television ads, food processors bombard their viewers through the media about the dangers of cholesterol. This is done constantly to sell their products and persuade their listeners that their information is true.
Here are some experts in the field you may want to study: Dr. Steve Sinatra, (world-known cardiologist) Dr. Mary Enig, (international expert on fats) Sally Fallon, Gary Taubes, Dr. Joseph Mercola, Dr. Bruce Fife, Weston Price, and Dr. Bruce West of Health Alert. There are many more but this is a start.
