A report published by the Journal of Exercise Physiology supports the results of many other similar studies:
"Total blood cholesterol and lipoprotein levels appeared not to be significantly affected by dietary fat intake. Interestingly, they were also not significantly correlated with measures of body fatness. "
http://faculty.css.edu/tboone2/asep/BrahlerFeb2007.doc
The "Low-fat" dietary recommendation is one of the worse things the USDA has pushed on us. SO many people still believe it to be true and buy the low-fat! and fat-free! unnatural products that crowd the shelves in the typical American market.
It's not the fat that makes your body store fat and give you heart disease. It's the overall excess of calories, the unbalanced diet of high carbs , low protein, and low fat, and the consumption of artificial or highly-processed ingredients that send the body into fat-creation mode.
Consider the Inuit, the natives of Northern Alaska. How do they survive on a diet of very high fat, protein, and no grains or veggies? They not only survive, they thrive. This article is worth reading in its entirety:
http://discovermagazine.com/2004/oct/inuit-paradox
Me putting my fascination with human physiology, nutrition, and sports science to use helping my husband, who couldn't care less about these things, achieve his triathlon goals.
