So, if butter, cod liver oil, lard and animal fats in general. In fact, arteries that are clogged are not choked with cholesterol and saturated fats, but with calcium deposits akin to lime. Well, if not, you ought to know that it is the mainstay of those who advocate low fat foods. Do you remember the Framingham Heart Study. Butter, Butter, Butter and Lard The notion that saturated fats causes heart disease is not only facile, but just plain wrong. There is no relationship between eating saturated fat and heart disease, despite vague and unsound TV and pop culture advice.

Yet, in hindsight, some 40 years after the study became public, the director of the study admits that " the more saturated fat one ate, the more cholesterol one ate, the more calories one ate, the lower the person's serum cholesterol,,,, we found that the people who ate the most cholesterol, ate the most saturated fat, ate the most calories, weighed the least and were the most physically active." What this director of the world's most referred to study is saying is that arterial sclerosis has little to do with cholesterol consumption.