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http://www.westonaprice.org/caustic-commentary/1953-caustic-commentary-summer-2010.html
It’s amazing how researchers so carefully choose their words to hide unwelcome findings. [MINE: Yeah, so carefully you can't even locate what you're looking for in terms of findings. Just ask me, I'll tell you how difficult it was!]
Several studies have shown that industrial seed oils strongly promote prostate cancer cell growth; a recent study found that lowering the fat content of a primarily saturated fat diet offers little survival benefit in mice with transplanted human prostate cancer cells, in contrast to lowering a diet high in omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids, which does offer survival benefit (Journal of Urology 2010 Apr;183(4):1619-24).
Rather than state the obvious in unambiguous language—that saturated fats don’t contribute to cancer—the researchers hid the important point in their conclusion: “. . . fat type may be as important as fat amount in the prostate cancer setting.” In another study, mice fed a standard rat chow diet plus 10 percent corn oil exhibited increased body weight, total body fat mass and abdominal fat mass along with reduced bone mineral density compared to controls on rat chow alone.
The title of the study describes the corn oil diet as a “high-fat” rather than a “high-oil” diet (Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 2010 Feb 9). When a diet high in corn oil but low in fiber, vitamin D and calcium triggered inflammation in the mouse colon, Peter Holt, one of the study authors, stated that the study lent support to the hypothesis that “red meat, processed meat and alcohol can increase the risk of colorectal cancer” (ScienceDaily.com, January 2, 2010). **I could find nothing at the Science Daily site concerning this subject on January 2, 2010, except a thing about colonoscopy patients wanting or not wanting to take home the "video" of their procedure. ewwwwww. If someone else finds something relevant, post the entire link here, ok? I wish WAPF did a better job of sourcing/linking. They're as bad as Mikey.
But the study did not look at red meat, processed meat and alcohol, it looked at corn oil!
Monounsaturated fatty acids, found in olive oil and canola oil, are the current darling of the research establishment. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden really got tongue-tied when a recent study showed that olive oil and a “new type of canola and flaxseed oil” raised cholesterol levels more than butter. According to a spokesperson for the University, the short- and medium-chain fatty acids in butter are stored preferentially in the intestinal cells. “However, butter leads to a slightly higher content of free fatty acids in the blood, which is a burden on the body. . . Olive oil is good, to be sure, but our findings indicate that different food fats can have different advantages” (Science Daily, February 20, 2010 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100209124352.htm )
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It sure does take Science Daily a LOOOOONG time to get to the point of the study. I damn near gave up and stopped reading because all arrows were pointed to butter being bad, not good -- so was the title misleading? I hadda keep reading to find out! So will you, I guess. But honestly, I don't give a damn about their "findings" because butter is still the fat of choice for me and my family. Hang the scientists and use what you know is a good thing.
http://www.westonaprice.org/caustic-commentary/1953-caustic-commentary-summer-2010.html
It’s amazing how researchers so carefully choose their words to hide unwelcome findings. [MINE: Yeah, so carefully you can't even locate what you're looking for in terms of findings. Just ask me, I'll tell you how difficult it was!]
Several studies have shown that industrial seed oils strongly promote prostate cancer cell growth; a recent study found that lowering the fat content of a primarily saturated fat diet offers little survival benefit in mice with transplanted human prostate cancer cells, in contrast to lowering a diet high in omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids, which does offer survival benefit (Journal of Urology 2010 Apr;183(4):1619-24).
Rather than state the obvious in unambiguous language—that saturated fats don’t contribute to cancer—the researchers hid the important point in their conclusion: “. . . fat type may be as important as fat amount in the prostate cancer setting.” In another study, mice fed a standard rat chow diet plus 10 percent corn oil exhibited increased body weight, total body fat mass and abdominal fat mass along with reduced bone mineral density compared to controls on rat chow alone.
The title of the study describes the corn oil diet as a “high-fat” rather than a “high-oil” diet (Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 2010 Feb 9). When a diet high in corn oil but low in fiber, vitamin D and calcium triggered inflammation in the mouse colon, Peter Holt, one of the study authors, stated that the study lent support to the hypothesis that “red meat, processed meat and alcohol can increase the risk of colorectal cancer” (ScienceDaily.com, January 2, 2010). **I could find nothing at the Science Daily site concerning this subject on January 2, 2010, except a thing about colonoscopy patients wanting or not wanting to take home the "video" of their procedure. ewwwwww. If someone else finds something relevant, post the entire link here, ok? I wish WAPF did a better job of sourcing/linking. They're as bad as Mikey.
But the study did not look at red meat, processed meat and alcohol, it looked at corn oil!
Monounsaturated fatty acids, found in olive oil and canola oil, are the current darling of the research establishment. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden really got tongue-tied when a recent study showed that olive oil and a “new type of canola and flaxseed oil” raised cholesterol levels more than butter. According to a spokesperson for the University, the short- and medium-chain fatty acids in butter are stored preferentially in the intestinal cells. “However, butter leads to a slightly higher content of free fatty acids in the blood, which is a burden on the body. . . Olive oil is good, to be sure, but our findings indicate that different food fats can have different advantages” (Science Daily, February 20, 2010 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100209124352.htm )
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It sure does take Science Daily a LOOOOONG time to get to the point of the study. I damn near gave up and stopped reading because all arrows were pointed to butter being bad, not good -- so was the title misleading? I hadda keep reading to find out! So will you, I guess. But honestly, I don't give a damn about their "findings" because butter is still the fat of choice for me and my family. Hang the scientists and use what you know is a good thing.


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