The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat

by Tim Spector

In the remaining 99 per cent of the population a high-saturated fat diet would slightly increase total cholesterol levels, and it was assumed this would also increase the risk of heart disease. Thus the image of cholesterol as universally bad was further cemented.

The overall conclusion here is that for most of us saturated fat is not the villain to be avoided at all costs. The saturated fat many people eat in products like cheese and yoghurt is not, as we have so often been told, unhealthy, but likely to be beneficial. This is provided the food is ‘real’ and contains living microbes,

mixture of oats, adlay seeds, buckwheat, white bean, yellow corn, red bean, soybean, yam, big jujube, peanut and lotus seeds. Some patients get bitter melon too. The regime