Re: questioning Weston Price Foundation

To address a couple of points:

"But it seems to me he wasn't talking about dietary cholesterol but
about internal oxidization..."

I don't care what he talks about, but whether there is evidence to
support a person's claims. And I don't doubt this point, but the
evidence is clear that the "internal [in vivo] oxidation" is due to
lipid peroxidation (fat rancidity) in the context of the "typical
American diet." If you go to my web site you will see some of the
molecular-level evidence that makes this point.

As to "some saturated fats" being "atherogenic," such a statement is
useless from a scientific perspective. There are saturated fatty
acids. Those are actual molecules. A "saturated fat" is determined by
whoever is in charge of the agency given the power to do such things.
I would never even consider calling lard, which is about 39% saturated
fatty acids, a "saturated fat," but almost everyone does (it used to be
higher in SFAs 100 years ago, and still may be in some parts of the
world, where the pigs are fed a lot of coconut). If you want to do
science, you follow the scientific method. If you want to claim that
American lard is unhealthy, especially the way it is produced and the
way people usually cook with it, you will get no argument from me, but
the saturated fatty acids in it are what is healthy, not what is
unhealthy. And to demonstrate this, one can separate the SFAs from the
other, unsaturated fatty acids, and give one group of lab animals a
diet of 20% of the SFAs, while the other group gets the UFAs from the
lard, at 20% daily calories. Until that experiment is done, any claims
made about lard as a "saturated fat" are science fiction, at best.

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