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Good fats, bad fats. Which is it? As my regular readers know, the myths surrounding healthy fats and oils drive me crazy. Be sure to check out any of the following posts about fats & oils that you may have missed.
Be sure to scroll down past the picture to look over the posts about cholesterol and cholesterol medications (statins)!
- Smoking point for fats & oils
- Get Rid of the Bad Fats in Your Kitchen! - find out what to use for cooking, baking, etc. Why not use Canola? One more on Canola. What about Grapeseed oil?
- Does fat make you fat? Part 1: Saturated fat, cholesterol and heart disease issues (and one little tid-bit about the role of fats related to sexuality)
- Does fat make you fat? Part 2: Specific principles related to fats & dieting
- Healthy Milk – Find out why you should NEVER buy anything but WHOLE milk!
- Organic Coconut Health Benefits – Dieting, Lice, Eczema & More – yes, coconut oil is a saturated fat…keep reading the posts listed here so you can learn that things are not all that “they” have made them seem…
- Trans fat dangers – read what to look for on food labels!
- How did you get over your fat phobia?
- Eating healthy, without sacrifices! – you don’t have to feel deprived! This post also has a link at the bottom to one of the best articles I’ve seen about healthy fats and why they’re important.
- The Oiling of America – Sally Fallon talks about how the Saturated Fat myth took hold
- Reasons why many still believe the saturated fat myth
- Are you a “Butterton”?
- How difficult was it for you to give up the “low-fat mentality”?
- Responses to “How difficult was it to give up the low-fat mentality?” Including responses from Nina Planck, Sally Fallon & more!
- Margarine, then and now…
- The History of Heart Disease by Nina Planck
- Frying with tallow, a healthy, traditional fat
- The importance of the FAT-soluble vitamins
- Why Butter is Better & Tallow is Terrific
- 20 Health Benefits of Real Butter
- How to render fat for a healthy cooking oil-how to make tallow & lard
- What about saturated fats, oxidized cholesterol, and healthy milk? (Sally Fallon answers a reader question.)
- Great video from Ann Marie that asks, “Does Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease?”
- Is Lard Really Good For Us?
- Fat Head Movie Review - great YouTube clips here that explain how obesity begins and how the saturated fat myth took hold.
- Healthy Beef Tallow for Guilt-Free Frying
- Fats & low fat diets with Jimmy Moore & Andrew Weil
- Organic grass-fed ghee and why grass-fed is so important
- A great post from Sarah: 5 Fats You Must Have in Your Kitchen
- Read about how I almost got into a “Butter Fight” with someone…
***INFO ON STATINS/CHOLESTEROL MEDS BELOW!
photo by iLoveButter
CHOLESTEROL POSTS (& POSTS ABOUT STATINS/CHOLESTEROL MEDICATIONS)
- Is cholesterol good for us?
- Cholesterol drugs for kids – do kids need to lower their cholesterol?!
- Side effects from statins/cholesterol medications
- Are cholesterol medicines safe? What about LDL & HDL? You’ve got to read the info toward the bottom of this post about the movie Fathead!
- Another good one from Dr. Eades
- History of Heart Disease
- Statins after a heart attack? – read about my brother-in-law’s heart scare
- Read about Mike’s follow-up appointment at the heart doc.
- More pharmaceutical bull crap – read why the pharmacy contacted my sister
Many more topics & recipes along the right in the sidebar.
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