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Inside Health

Saturated Fats, Moles, Egg Freezing

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Recent research was widely reported as concluding that 30 year old guidance to limit saturated fats had been overturned and should never have been introduced - and that we can now eat as much butter, cheese, sausages and pies as we like.

But, as ever, the real story is a bit different. Inside Health debates the real evidence and hears from Sweden that rumours of change in its guidance have also been misreported.

As big companies try to attract female employees by offering 'egg freezing' as a corporate carrot, Dr Mark Porter examines the success rates and implications for women wanting to start a family.

And checking your moles - how to tell the difference between the sinister and the innocent.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:42.8

And freezing your eggs. More women are leaving it later to start a family

0:47.1

and turning to private clinics to help them preserve their fertility.

0:50.9

But it's not quite as straightforward as some may think.

0:54.0

It seems also sometimes in societal debate that you go to this clinic and you have a

0:59.1

consultation and in the same afternoon we freeze your oocides and you're done.

1:02.6

It's a rather intensive procedure.

1:04.3

It's very similar to doing an in vitro fertilization procedure.

1:08.1

The general assumption sometimes is that if you've frozen your oocides, this means that

1:13.6

you will surely get a child and this is absolutely not the situation. More on egg freezing later,

1:19.6

but first new research into fats, or to be more specific, media coverage of a study questioning

1:25.9

the evidence behind guidelines on how much fat we should be eating.

1:30.2

Food fight, row over saturated fat advice.

1:33.8

Fat guidelines lacked solid scientific evidence.

1:37.6

Saturated fat may not be the enemy.

1:40.4

Research published by the online journal Open Heart was widely reported as concluding that 30-year-old guidance to limit saturated fat intake to 10% or less of our daily calorie intake should never have been introduced. And the study's been used by some as further proof that saturated fats are not linked to heart disease and that we can now eat as much butter, cheese, sausages and pies as we like.

2:04.7

But as ever, the real story is a bit different.

2:07.7

So to debate the issue, Inside Health, Dr Margaret McCartney,

2:11.2

Nick Skullthorpe, who senior lecturer in clinical exercise physiology,

2:14.6

and one of the authors of the paper,

2:17.0

and Christine Williams,

2:18.1

Professor of Human Nutrition at the University of Reading.

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