Study: A Keto Diet Can Lead to Heart Scarring and Permanent Heart Damage

El OchoCinco said:
I think you are missing the point of my comments. I am an advocate for Keto which is a make up of macors mostly from fat.

My comment is criticizing the proponents of dirty keto who advocate you can eat as much bacon and butter all day long without any consequences. You are preaching to the choir about fats, I chimed in on the fad pushers of "dirty keto"

The article says "Keto diets are not unhealthy, it's the way people do them that is, according to Dr. Andrew Freeman, the cardiologist at National Jewish in Denver. That is why I brought up the fad of dirty keto.

Saturated fats do raise cholesterol levels, that has been proven. The question is whether high cholesterol matters as an absolute number in links to heart disease and that is where keto argues against the link. Even in Lipitor's studies they found high cholesterol links to CVD to be in the low single digits.
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I think I understand what you are saying. You keep calling out bacon, however, like it is a bad thing. Butter, as I said, is a noted exception.

But bacon is essentially made up this way:

50% monounsaturated fat with the vast majority of this being oleic acid - the same fatty acid that olive oil contains and that is widely heralded as good for the heart.

40% saturated fat which is typically considered NOT good, but 30% of that is stearic acid which actually raises HDL and has no effect on LDL. The vast preponderance of the remainder of the saturated fats is palmitic acid which studies show raises LDL - so that's not a good thing. So and estimated 62% of bacon has a positive impact on your cholesterol health, and 28% is definitively negative to your cholesterol.

It's not anywhere close to a problem like most people tend to think it is.

Butter is a whole different issue.
 
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