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By Dr. C.M. Curtis

4/06/2024

Lipophobia was, and among some people continues to be, an eating disorder that was started in the 1970s by people who wrote books about the dangers of dietary fats. Later, a United States Senate Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs published its nutritional guidelines and ushered in the lipophobic era.

Fat-free, low fat, and no fat, were the catchwords of the lipophobic era, and the terms persist today. Very few people, it seems, understand the whole story about fats. As a result, many people are doing their bodies a great deal of harm while thinking they are doing them good. 

I had a pathology professor in college who taught that all fats, without exception, were bad. I’m glad I didn’t believe him. I would have a lot of unhealthy patients on my conscience if I had. We need fats. We can’t survive without them—certain forms of them, that is. Some fats are essential for good health, others are harmful to our bodies; the key is knowing which is which. But we are bombarded with so much bad information on the subject, that it’s not easy to sort it all out.

One of the reasons for the confusion is that cholesterol, which is not even a fat, is thrown into the mix and in many cases, its presence or absence is the only criterion upon which a particular oil/fat is or is not recommended. This makes a bad situation even worse. Just because an oil is low in cholesterol doesn’t mean it is healthy. Motor oil is low in cholesterol, but I don’t recommend frying your eggs in it.

Keep in mind, as you read this, that the old recommendations about cholesterol and saturated fats are being hotly disputed by scientists and doctors all over the world. Those recommendations are many decades old—some of them dating back to World War II—and it is now very clear that they are based on false premises. A huge amount of research is currently being conducted on the subject, but we have ample proof that everything we have been told by the food industry is false (nothing new there). As you are about to see, in most cases the truth is just the reverse of what has been taught for well over half a century.

The Following is a List of Unhealthy Oils:

• Canola Oil - Surprised? You shouldn’t be. Oil from a genetically modified, hybridized seed that didn’t even exist a few years ago can’t possibly be healthy. It appears to cause undesirable changes in various organs, especially the cardiovascular system, causing fibrotic heart lesions. There is also evidence that it can cause

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