This “Unhealthy” Fat Prevents Heart Attack And High Cholesterol

For decades, we’ve been bombarded with propaganda about removing saturated fat from our diet. As authorities claim it raises bad cholesterol and causes cardiovascular diseases.

And what to put instead, they say?

Vegetable polyunsaturated fats such as Sunflower and Safflower oils.
In fact, the American Heart Association released a presidential advisory about this in the June 2017 edition of the journal Circulation.

But there is a major flaw in their reasoning behind this advice, as proved in scores of recent studies and explained in today’s article.

Large reviews of the scientific literature published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2014 and The British Medical Journal in 2015 found no link between saturated fat intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease.

So why the conflicting conclusions?

You see, most studies group too many different types of saturated fats together, such as animal derived, plant derived, and fats with long, medium, and short carbon chains.

These are all different fats and should be studied separately, instead of as a group.

Coconut oil, for example, is on the American Heart Association’s list of unhealthy oils simply because it is saturated, but many studies have found that it’s actually heart healthy.

Unlike other saturated fats, coconut oil is composed primarily of lauric acid, a fat with medium-chain carbon bonds.

While some studies have found that coconut oil raises LDL (bad) cholesterol, just as many have found that it raises HDL (good) cholesterol substantially more than LDL.

Remember that good HDL cholesterol removes potentially harmful LDL cholesterol from your body, so raising your HDL cholesterol is a good thing.

In addition, an article in a 2015 edition of the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that surveyed the 13 available studies on the relationship between medium-chain fats and body weight concluded that they were capable of lowering body weight because they generate a lot of heat and because our bodies cannot store them for long.

Some studies have also suggested that medium-chain fats like coconut oil are protective against metabolic syndrome and diabetes.

Most importantly, unlike all other vegetable oils, coconut oil doesn’t include the one ingredient that creates plaque in your arteries.

In fact, cutting out this one single ingredient will get your cholesterol under control and clear out your clogged arteries in 30 days or less – as we explain in more detail here…