Tony, this is absurd. Cholesterol causes Heart Disease? Boo!!! Since when did the liver produce something that causes disease? High Cholesterol is not by diet, it is by cholesterol not being used. Saturated fat and cholesterol are not related. One is a fat and the other is a sterol. About nitrites in red meat... Avoid the factory farm meats - they're the ones that are likely to have these. Show me a randomized controlled study (not a epidemiological study) that shows that sat fat causes heart disease.
Here's a later interview with Rachel on Jimmy Moor's show. "How Saturated Fats Saved My Baby Jenna"http://www.thelivinlowcarbshow.com/shownotes/678/rachel-tomkinson-how-saturated-fats-saved-baby-jenna-episode-276/
Tony you asked for some evidence on the virtues of saturated fats in regards to healing our bodies: • My daughter would be up most of the night in excruciating pain with severe stomach cramping. When I began to trial our traditional food diet I gave my daughter some coconut oil and low and behold WITHIN A MINUTE she would do a terrific blow off and then she would immediately settle herself back to sleep. Before we would be up and down throughout the night until she managed to pass wind. If I had no other saturated fat to offer her I reluctantly offered dripping and she hated the taste but she ate all of it because she KNEW that she needed it. • She will ask for a little more saturated fat when she isn’t feeling well. Just like chicken soup for a cold - saturated fat increases our immunity.• Saturated fat cures the discomfort of several days’ constipation. Excrements are softer and painless to pass. She passes them with no bowel bleeding and pain as before. • Children instinctively crave fat. They need it to grow and my daughter has just completed two large growth spurts! Mentally she is sharper than ever! My daughter on her extreme food exclusion diet ate mostly meat favouring the meat juices, skin and fat portions the most. • When I reintroduced the biggest allergy food – egg, I was told that she would react badly to this. I tried just a tiny amount three times within the same week. The third time too much – remember my accumulation hypothesis, and her face puffed up, she went pale and very cold. Out of panic I gave her a spoon of butter. I took a photo and thirty minutes later I captured another displaying hardly any trace of her previous severe reaction. She didn’t have her usual diarrhoea symptoms. No antihistamines here! • When my daughter is hyperactive, a spoonful of butter calms and settles her within fifteen minutes. No sedatives here like we used to use to get her calm!• Miraculously we can tolerate butter but not dairy.