While breaking news on health and nutrition can get you into a head-spin sometimes, at other times thankfully, it reestablishes old truths on the ancient links between the human body and food. That a certain amount of fat is actually a necessity for human health is not a new finding, but this reality has been from time to time aggressively pushed to the margins by overzealous health experts. And now, fat is back in the digestive fire, so to speak, thanks to a comprehensive new research review that covered 300,000 people overall in Canada. According to this study, goodies like butter, cheese, eggs and other forms of saturated fat are good for health in small amounts.
This news is important in that it tempers the shrill, growing post-modern hysteria of fat-free faddism that is threatening to derail common sense. It can only be a sobering influence on the growing population of overzealous dieters who do more harm than good to their bodies with fat-free or fat-substituted food preferences.
The key to health does not lie at the extremes and studies like these help us find the all-important middle ground.
