Why we need animal fats

with Sally Fallon Morell

There’s a lot of confusion around what constitutes a healthy fat. In today’s episode, Sally Fallon Morell, the head of the Weston A. Price Foundation, makes a solid case for including animal fats in our diet, based on her book “Nourishing fats: why we need animal fats for health and happiness.” For decades, animal fats and saturated fats have been maligned as unhealthy, but the evidence points in the opposite direction.

It’s time to unlearn the propaganda and become reacquainted with the happy, healthy truth. Saturated fats have an important role to play in our physical and emotional wellness. Sally tells the history of when & why companies began pushing their pseudo oils and fats. And she then gives the science behind why animal fats are so beneficial–how they have been found to be protective against cancer, and provide vitamins A, D, and K that are essential for proper neurological function and emotional well-being, for example.

You will hear specifics about how and why butter, lard and tallow can all be embraced as part of your daily diet. Once you do so, you and your family will be all the healthier (and happier) for it!

Notes

You will hear specifics about how and why butter, lard and tallow can all be embraced as part of your daily diet. Once you do so, you and your family will be all the healthier (and happier) for it!

This episode highlights:

how animal fats and saturated fats have been demonized by many diets
what constitutes a saturated fat
how & why companies in the 1920s began demonizing animal fats
how our body temperature affects fats in the body
how our cell membranes are 50% fat molecules. Saturated fat holds them together!
how if you’re not eating sat fat, your body makes sat fat out of carbohydrates (and this is reason we crave carbs)
why low-carb and low sat-fat are the worst diets
why the brain needs fat to function properly (arachidonic acid comes from animal fats and this acid helps hold cells together, and the digestive tract too)
how saturated fat is the most stable of molecules
how science does not support accusations of animal fats being bad for you
how Sally’s book goes into detail about various diseases and how they are not caused by animal fat (beginning with heart disease)
how vegetable oils are carcinogenic; but sat fats protect against cancer
how butter fat is key for nourishing all mammals (it is found in breast milk)
how commercial formula for babies has no sat fat or cholesterol in it (it only contains vegetable oil) but real mother’s milk has lots of cholesterol
why cholesterol is a good thing for babies (and adults)
what happens when a person undergoes fat deprivation
fats help the “feel good” chemicals kick in (we have receptors for natural versions of marijuana, opiates, cocaine…w/ no side effects)
the depression or poor mood that can result from no sat fats
the fact that many medical sites and doctors still recommend avoiding saturated fats
how kidney patients improved on sat fats
three steps for incorporating these fats immediately into your diet