...although it's pretty obvious why he's saying things like: for all the
low-fat dairy people are eating, they're only getting fatter (paraphrased).
I looked at a fruit leather product's ingredient list - it was quite high in
unsaturated fatty acids. Why is that important? Farmers have know for
decades that unsaturated fats, especially the polyunsaturates, suppress
thyroid and thus make animals fatter. A recent example:
""To be certified organic, cattle must be given a vegetarian diet of primarily foraged grass. Grains
such as corn, barley, and soy beans are fed for a short time to at the feed lot to produce added
fat." Newsday newspapaer (New York), 1/6/04. Page A33."
If sugar, salt, and fat made you fat, I'd be huge, instead of thin as a rail (at age 40 and after 3
years of eating plenty of butter, coconut oil, dark chocolate, raw cheese and whey, along with as
much Rapadura sugar and Celtic Sea salt that satisfies my sense of taste. If you want to lose
weight, you have to avoid the unsaturated fats, and eliminating oxidized cholesterol, foods high in
iron, and processed foods in general, will help as well.
Low-fat and no-fat dairy are very dangerous foods, due to the denatured protein (less fat, more
protein), which in cow dairy (though not in eggs) prompts an inflammatory response that can become
chronic - leading to heart disease, among other things. For example, cytokines get created, and that
can enhance human herpes viruses (which almost everyone has), which can lead to all kinds of
"diseases." Only butter is okay if pasteurized, though raw is better (if the cow is healthy).