SOTT EXCLUSIVE: Interstellar bacon! What a famous actress, known filmmaker and participants in nutritional research have in common?

There is a saying, that everything new is long forgotten old. But what if it wasn't forgotten, but twisted and purposefully concealed under a pile of lies, personal interests and greed? For over 50 years we've been hammered with lies about saturated fats being bad for us, but now, after countless cases of seemingly healthy and young people dropping like flies due to heart attacks, the tide is slowly changing toward old-time wisdom that there is no better remedy for the body and soul than bacon, fatty broth and home made butter. And scientific research can back it up.

For example, take a look at the recent research done by The Ohio State University:

Doubling or even nearly tripling saturated fat in the diet does not drive up total levels of saturated fat in the blood, according to a controlled diet study.

However, increasing levels of carbohydrates in the diet during the study promoted a steady increase in the blood of a fatty acid linked to an elevated risk for diabetes and heart disease.

The finding "challenges the conventional wisdom that has demonized saturated fat and extends our knowledge of why dietary saturated fat doesn't correlate with disease," said senior author Jeff Volek, a professor of human sciences at The Ohio State University.[...]

When that marker increases, he said, it is a signal that an increasing proportion of carbs are being converted to fat instead of being burned as fuel. Reducing carbs and adding fat to the diet in a well-formulated way, on the other hand, ensures the body will promptly burn the saturated fat as fuel - so it won't be stored.

"When you consume a very low-carb diet your body preferentially burns saturated fat," Volek said. "We had people eat 2 times more saturated fat than they had been eating before entering the study, yet when we measured saturated fat in their blood, it went down in the majority of people. Other traditional risk markers improved, as well."[...]

When looking at palmitoleic acid, however, the scientists found that it consistently decreased on the high-fat/low-carb diet in all participants. The fatty acid then showed a step-wise increase in concentration in the blood as carbs were progressively added to the diet. Elevated levels of palmitoleic acid in the blood have been linked to obesity and higher risk for inflammation, insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance, metabolic syndrome, type-2 diabetes, heart disease and prostate cancer.[...]

"There is widespread misunderstanding about saturated fat. In population studies, there's clearly no association of dietary saturated fat and heart disease, yet dietary guidelines continue to advocate restriction of saturated fat. That's not scientific and not smart," Volek said. "But studies measuring saturated fat in the blood and risk for heart disease show there is an association. Having a lot of saturated fat in your body is not a good thing. The question is, what causes people to store more saturated fat in their blood, or membranes, or tissues?

"People believe 'you are what you eat,' but in reality, you are what you save from what you eat," he said. "The point is you don't necessarily save the saturated fat that you eat. And the primary regulator of what you save in terms of fat is the carbohydrate in your diet. Since more than half of Americans show some signs of carb intolerance, it makes more sense to focus on carb restriction than fat restriction."

But what better way to test a theory if not on those who are constantly in the spotlight? As it turns out, a famous actress Anne Hathaway decided to give herself a present on her 32 birthday and start following low-carb and high fat diet.

Although Anne and her husband in the past insisted on vegan-only reception food for their wedding, Hathaway recently confessed that eating endless meals of tofu and garbanzo beans seemed to be sapping her energy. Apparently, when she was filming , the action-packed scenes overwhelmed her.

Seeking a solution, Hathaway shifted to a low-carb diet. The decision to push away those plant-based platters and experiment with an animal protein-powered plan came in the middle of filming a water scene, which required that she suit up in a heavy garment.

"I fell off so hard.... So you imagine what that's like - what it's like running through water and then you wear a 40-pound suit on top of it, so for me it was intense. I was facing my life, I don't know how many days in a row of, like, garbanzo beans on a plate."

And now, Hathaway says that she doesn't plan to return to her vegan lifestyle, because the actress saw that the difference between eating a vegan diet and consuming animal protein was notable overnight. "I just didn't feel good or healthy," Hathaway recalled of her vegan days.

But there is yet another showbiz representative, who conducted his own experiment and now have a long list of ailments to tell the world about.

A new documentary that is scheduled for release in 2015 focuses on the impact dietary sugar can have on health. The movie, titled , outlines filmmaker Damon Gameau's 60-day experiment with a high-sugar diet. Gameau did not binge on candy, sodas, or other sugary treats. He consumed low-fat foods that are commonly believed to be "healthful."

"I had no soft drink, chocolate, ice cream, or confectionery. All the sugars that I was eating were found in perceived healthy foods, so low-fat yogurts, and muesli bars, and cereals, and fruit juices, sports drinks ... these kind of things that often parents would give their kids thinking they're doing the right thing."

Within three weeks, the previously healthy Gameau noticed his mental and physical health declining:

During the filming, Gameau found the sugary diet affected his physical and mental health, and doctors called his mental functioning "unstable." He also added nearly four inches of visceral fat around his waist, even though he said the diet left him feeling hungry, no matter how much he ate.

Sugar belly of Damon Gameau

He also received a troubling diagnosis: his doctor told him he was beginning to develop fatty liver disease. Apparently, In the last twenty years, the prevalence of the disease has more than doubled in teenagers and adolescents. Sugar is believed to be the main culprit in the development of fatty liver disease because it is metabolized in the liver and it is known to increase blood levels of triglycerides, a type of fat.

And so it appears, that we have been deceived for a long time, and saturated fat is beneficial for both "mere mortals" and "stars" as well!

Zoya Klebanova

Zoya Klebanova joined SOTT in 2007 as contributing editor while living in Israel for 20 years, and after waking up to her country's destructive and psychopathic nature. Her deep understanding of Israel's pathology provides her with unique perspective regarding world events. Zoya worked in wide variety of computer oriented jobs, and has background in research and investigation. She currently resides in Belarus and attends University studying veterinary medicine. Her research interests include health, politics, spirituality, high-strangeness, and all areas of science.