Saturated Fat Does a Body Good, Christopher Masterjohn

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Exploring the Biological Roles of These Long-Demonized Yet Heroic Nutrients. Since the rise of the diet-heart hypothesis in the 1960s, the idea that saturated fat is the “bad fat” has dominated the fields of nutrition science and medicine. This, combined with the observation that we can make our own saturated fat from carbohydrate, has led us as a society to overlook or diminish what other fields such as biochemistry and cellular biology have been elucidating over a similar time frame: that saturated fats play essential roles in the body and are necessary for life and health. I have criticized the diet-heart hypothesis extensively and repeatedly elsewhere, and will not do so in this article. Rather, I will explore the essential biological roles of saturated fats and the question of whether and how saturated fats in the diet might benefit human health.

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[Metabolism. Nutrition. Fat. Saturated Fats. Christopher Masterjohn.]