Saturated Fats
Video Transcript
DR. MICHAEL SMITH: No matter
what you've heard, butter is not
back.
Sorry, it's true that in one study, people who cut out saturated fats, like butter and red meat, from their diet didn't lower their risk of getting heart disease.
Researchers were quite surprised until they figured out what was really going on.
Turns out the folks who cut out saturated fat wound up eating more bad carbs instead, like white bread and rice.
And those are just as damaging to your heart as butter and red meat.
So while it looked like butter was off the hook at first, that was only because the bad carbs were raising the risk as much as saturated fat was.
What does work is replacing saturated fat with healthier fats like olive oil, salmon, and walnuts and with the good carbs, like oatmeal, beans, fruits, and vegetables.
Do that and your risk of heart disease will go down.
For WebMD, I'm Dr. Michael Smith.
Sorry, it's true that in one study, people who cut out saturated fats, like butter and red meat, from their diet didn't lower their risk of getting heart disease.
Researchers were quite surprised until they figured out what was really going on.
Turns out the folks who cut out saturated fat wound up eating more bad carbs instead, like white bread and rice.
And those are just as damaging to your heart as butter and red meat.
So while it looked like butter was off the hook at first, that was only because the bad carbs were raising the risk as much as saturated fat was.
What does work is replacing saturated fat with healthier fats like olive oil, salmon, and walnuts and with the good carbs, like oatmeal, beans, fruits, and vegetables.
Do that and your risk of heart disease will go down.
For WebMD, I'm Dr. Michael Smith.