Saturated Foods – Good or Bad?
By Dane C. Fletcher

If you have been around for a while then you definitely know how much the health industry has tried to pin down saturated fats as a heart disease risk factor. With absolutely no facts backing the claims, SFA’s have been preached in all market platforms as the “devil” that is killing our hearts. From health to bodybuilding magazines, the press and electronic media, they have all been against SFA’s for the past three decades. Yet, this campaign has not been heralded by credible research findings but mere propaganda. While all the evidence is against these claims, the anti-saturated fats campaign is undeterred.

Ancient communities ate volumes of animal fats. They ate meat and milk to their fill. They ate palm oils and lived with red meats as a stable food. Animal proteins were king, yet heart failure was never a problem. The analytic synthesis of saturated fats has never identified any component element that can cause heart diseases. In fact, the three main components, lauric, stearic and palmitic acids are actually beneficial in preventing heart diseases. Even to the most untrained eye, the bias against SFA’s is evident. It is caused by no apparent motivation. There is absolutely no correlation between saturated fats and heart diseases, and they are not dangerous, if incorporated in the bodybuilder’s diet and should not be avoided by bodybuilders.

So why has society labeled saturated fats a “devil” yet it is not? Why are all these attempts to innocently lay the blame of heart complications on saturated fats?

The media campaign has an inherent bias engineered by entities that benefit from the scare. There is somebody somewhere who will pay top dollar if we keep the masses scared of saturated fats. When bodybuilder’s shield their diets from animal fats, there must be somebody who is raking in trillions. Bodybuilding literature written by steroid manufacturing companies always presents anabolic steroids as a fundamental ingredient of bodybuilding success. This is because for as long as we believe that we cannot build a muscle without the steroids, they will keep making billions by the second. Such bias must be the motivation to campaign against saturated fats.

The best guess is the multi-trillion dollar industry of manufacturing vegetable oils. This industry has totally taken over the cooking oils market, and a walk to the local store will tell you so. Any kitchen today, at home or at the restaurant, will show this upon tins of vegetable fats. Just a few decades ago, our cooking oils were mostly animal fat and their derivatives. We believed in saturated fats and the natural tropical oils. They were cheaper and tasted better in food. There is no way we could have exchanged the saturated fats for the lukewarm vegetable fats processed and sold at high prices. We had to be forced, if the vegetable oils were to sell. And a marketing genius somewhere devised a way better than any, to convince us why we should leave the cheap, tasty, nutritious and safe saturated fats for the tasteless and expensive vegetable oils. We fell for the marketing gimmick, hook and sinker.

Dane Fletcher is the world’s most prolific bodybuilding and fitness expert and is currently the executive editor for BodybuildingToday.com. If you are looking for more bodybuilding tips or information on weight training, or supplementation, please visit www.BodybuildingToday.com, the bodybuilding and fitness authority site with hundreds of articles available FREE to help you meet your goals.

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