179: The oiling of America
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Unfortunately, traditional fats have been replaced in many kitchens by so-called "heart healthy" processed oils and spreads. Today, Sally Fallon Morell, the President of the Weston A. Price Foundation, explains how detrimental this is for our health. She discusses who is behind this push and why. She busts the myth that high cholesterol has a role in chronic illness and heart disease. She helps us understand why we actually need cholesterol in our diet, how the food we consume does not affect the cholesterol in our bloodstream, and why statins are not the answer for avoiding heart disease. Sally goes deep and wide, examining the flawed research that has led us to where we are today and making a strong case for why we should embrace traditional fats like butter, lard, and tallow, rather than demonizing them.
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| 0:00.0 | When you think about it, for the whole time that human beings have been on this planet, |
| 0:05.0 | we have eaten butter, the meat fats, the pork fats, and certain fruit fats, like coconut and and olive those are fruits. |
| 0:15.0 | We didn't have these vegetable oils until about 130 years ago. |
| 0:20.0 | That's when they came onto the market. |
| 0:22.0 | And that's exactly the time that we started to see this huge increase in chronic disease, |
| 0:27.0 | degenerative disease. From the Westin A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for |
| 0:39.9 | wise traditions in food, farming, and the healing arts. We are your source for scientific |
| 0:45.1 | knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. Hey guys, I'm Hilda Labrada Gore and this is episode 179. |
| 1:01.0 | Our guest today is Sally Fallon Morel, the president of the Westin A Price Foundation. |
| 1:05.4 | Sally is a popular author, speaker, and activist on behalf of our health. Today Sally |
| 1:12.4 | reveals how we've been hoodwinked by the slick edible |
| 1:15.8 | oils industry. She explains how, for their own gain, they demonize natural fats like butter, lard, and tallow, and how the health of the American |
| 1:26.2 | people has suffered as a result. |
| 1:28.4 | This eye-opening conversation probes the junk science behind the movement to abandon traditional fats. |
| 1:35.0 | She also discusses the problem with statins, the truth about cholesterol's role in our body, |
| 1:41.0 | and the reason our bodies thrive on real traditional fats. |
| 1:44.8 | I can't wait to get into conversation, but before we do, we want to give a quick shout |
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