Why You Should Avoid Sweet Fat

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Many of us were taught that eating dietary fat makes us fat and leads to heart disease. This assumption has been catastrophic for our health. In fact, fats are essential for optimal health, and saturated fat, specifically, is not the boogeyman we once thought. We know now that there is no monolithic saturated fat. There are many saturated fats, each with its own effects. The saturated fat in coconut, for instance is different from the saturated fat in butter. In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman talks with neurologist Dr. David Perlmutter about how saturated fat came to get such a bad rap. They dive into many of the ways the right saturated fats are beneficial to your health and discuss why, what Dr. Hyman calls “sweet fat,” is so harmful. *A Note on Fat: While a high fat diet does not work for everyone, we now know that fat is not the enemy it was previously made out to be. Some people do well with less fats and some do better with more fats. It is important to determine what work specifically for your body. **Please also note, we caught an error in the narration at the end of this episode. The final message is, "The kind of fat you eat is what matters most. Focus on eating a diet of whole foods and avoid processed junk. To hear Dr. Hyman’s full length interview with Dr. David Perlmutter please visit https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/DrDavidPerlmutter

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0:00.0	The saturated fat thing is fascinating because I want to be able to hear that saturated fat
0:04.1	is not necessarily bad, that it is something that can be helpful in many conditions.
0:11.3	But that's with one big caution, is to avoid what I call sweet fat.
0:16.6	Hi, I'm Kya Perot, one of the producers of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:20.4	Consuming natural, whole food-based healthy fats is absolutely critical for good health.
0:25.5	Even saturated fats can be part of a healthy diet, and yet we've been conditioned to believe
0:29.4	that unsaturated fats from vegetable and seed oils are best, and that things like butter,
0:34.1	coconut oil, lard, ghee, and other saturated fats are toxic.
0:39.1	In their recent conversation, Dr. Hyman and neurologist Dr. David Prolmutter delve into
0:43.1	how saturated fat develops such a bad rap, and why what Dr. Hyman calls sweet fat is the
0:48.6	real villain.
0:50.5	And the reason that saturated fat, I believe, causes, and I want to hear your opinion on this,
0:54.2	causes problems in the research, which can correlate saturated fat with disease like heart
0:58.0	disease and other problems, is that when those studies were done, they're done in the
1:02.2	context of people eating saturated fat in a high-starch sugar diet.
1:06.8	I call that sweet fat.
1:07.8	I think it doughnuts, french fries, ice cream, cookies.
1:10.9	These are high-fat, high-sugar combos that are deadly.
1:16.2	So the caution is if you're going to eat saturated fat, you can't eat a diet high-end,
1:21.2	starch and sugar.
1:22.2	Yes, high-end carbohydrates, right?
1:24.4	Plant foods.
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