I did know of the cholesterol-saturated fat position as the cause of heart disease during the time I was a graduate student in the biochemical sciences.
I followed the main line of thought and for years pursued a low fat diet.
But I didn't know the conclusions of Ancel Keys, his fellow researchers, and supporters were challenged by many other scientists in the scientific literature.
Although I had access to the scientific literature, yet I didn't know some scientists described different causes for the modern nutritional diseases of: oobesity and insulin resistance, oadult onset diabetes, oheart disease, ostroke, and ocancer.
Certainly main stream Americans would have no way of knowing the scientific literature contained other views of the cause of heart disease.
It would be difficult to determine that heart disease and the other modern diseases are really recent diseases and actually due to our modern nutrition.
Scientific literature is just unavailable to most Americans from the stand point of cost, a tremendous investment in time, and understanding the jargon of scientific literature.
I have never heard the media present both sides of the diet-heart controversy.
Could it be because the food processing and pharmaceutical drug industries give the media an unending supply of advertising dollars? Has the love of money and power driven this country in a very unfortunate nutritional path that has led to increasing disease and ill health?It has almost destroyed the family farm, and has given us inferior products that contribute to our ill health.
This controversy has been effectively silenced in mainstream America by the bombardment of advertising carrying only the message of the drug and food manufacturing companies.
A Prescription For Knowledge An East Texas cardiologist, Peter Langsjoen M.
D.
, gave me a prescription for 3 books on a routine follow up visit.
One book was Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon with Mary Enig Ph.
D.
, which has an impressive array of recipes based on traditional foods.
There are many references and editorials that proclaim the wisdom of traditional foods, and show the folly of modern diets.
A second book was The Modern Nutritional Diseases.
by Drs.
Fred and Alice Ottoboni.
The Ottoboni's are retired Public Health Service scientists who have for years been concerned with disease and its prevention.
The last book was The Cholesterol Myths by Uffe Ravnskov, M.
D.
, Ph.
D.
Dr.
Ravnskov is a practicing physician and researcher who delved into the literature and discovered there actually was little or no correlation between saturated fat and cholesterol and heart disease as reported in the original data of the many studies done in this area.
It didn't take long in reading these and other resources to realize I was one of the many who had been duped into following a faulty diet for years.
I finally realized the differences between nutrient dense traditional foods and modern examples of food manufacturing which have many calories but few nutrients.
The differences are ignored by the pharmaceutical drug and food processing industries.