History of Saturated Fat & Cholesterol Fake News and other Nutritional Fake News.
"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" - just a marketing gimmick.
Invented in the 19th century by John Harvey Kellogg to sell his newly invented breakfast cereal.
Use Vegetable Oils instead of Animal Fat - very successful marketing campaign by Crisco
targeting housewives since 1910s. The marketing campaign was basically - Crisco is modern, progressive, liberating.
Americans are eating more meat now than they used to in the early 1900s.
Used in 1950s-1970s to demonize meat and animal fat in dietary guidelines.
Meat consumption data from the early 1900s only included meat that crossed state lines.
Overwhelming majority of meat/eggs/milk eaten in the early 1900s was from local animals that did not cross state lines.
So the whole thing is a fabricated lie.
A diet high in saturated fat raises cholesterol, and that in turn increases risk of heart disease and stroke.
First promoted in 1950s-1970s by Ancel Keys, the theory is also known as Lipid Hypothesis. Lipid Hypothesis was
based on basically fake / gamed research. It was initially universally rejected by scientists as obvious fake "research",
but over time, largely by virtue of being at the right place at the right time, became the basis of USDA
recommendations below.
USDA / US government issued low-fat, low-cholesterol diet recommendations.
In the 1970s Senate committee chaired by George McGovern made initial recommendations promoting low-fat, low-cholesterol diet
based on their personal biases (such as vegetarians in charge of "research"). USDA then made it official US
diet recommendations.
"Saturated Fat & Cholesterol Lies" from 2008 movie "Fat Head".
An excellent and fun-to-watch 17 minutes overview of how US government since 1950s used fake research
to have an official policy that discourages eating saturated fat and encourages lowering cholesterol.
