Paul Saladino· MD
the fact that saturated fat consumption is healthy and evolutionarily consistent
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the fact that saturated fat consumption is healthy and evolutionarily consistent
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this is again an exoneration of saturated fat specifically long chain saturated fats that occur in ruminants and a very careful indictment of what is going on with the processing of our food and why what our food eats is so freaking important
what is most damaging about those processed foods i've said this many times but it's the beginning of the year so let's start off very clearly on the right foot seed oils evolutionarily inconsistent amounts of linoleic acid and processed sugars things we never would have had but one of our ancestors always had sunlight community dancing clean water hopefully not always but hopefully exposure to risk adventure just doing things that they enjoy being in nature hunting animals eating them from nose to tail and eating the least toxic plant foods