Unsaturated Fats:
The Unhealthy Facts
They Are NOT Telling You

For many decades, so-called "experts" have demonized saturated fats (particularly coconut oil) out of your diet, and the consequences were, well, look around you.

Don’t you think it’s about time you found out about the other side of the Fat coin? Below are a few of the harmful truths about unsaturated fats you probably don't know, yet.

Unhealthy Fact No. 1

UFAs are extremely predisposed to peroxidation and free-radical formation. This is especially true for polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA).

Unhealthy Fact No. 2

Because they create huge amounts of free radicals that assault the DNA of your cells, PUFAs encourage cancer.

Unhealthy Fact No. 3

PUFA consumption is associated with macular degeneration. People who consume polyunsaturated vegetable oils get the disease twice as much as those who don’t.

Unhealthy Fact No. 4

Dietary intake of UFAs decreases the binding of vitamin D to D-binding proteins, making this very important vitamin less available for your body’s use. UFAs actually promote vitamin D deficiency.

… more unhealthy facts to come, unfortunately …

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SEDDON, J. M., ET AL. PROGRESSION OF AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION: ASSOCIATION WITH DIETARY FAT, TRANSUNSATURATED FAT, NUTS, AND FISH INTAKE. ARCH OPHTHALMOL 2003;121(12):1728-1737.

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BOUILLON R., ET AL. POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS DECREASE THE APPARENT AFFINITY OF VITAMIN D METABOLITES FOR HUMAN VITAMIN D-BINDING PROTEIN. J STEROID BIOCHEM MOL BIOL 1992;42:855-861.