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civilization, people have been rendering lard, tallow, and schmaltz from animals, including pigs, cows, chickens, geese, and ducks. Butter has been used as long as humans have been milking cows (approximately 5,000 years). People living in tropical regions have used coconut and palm fruit for their highly saturated fats for ages. So we're told to eat lots of “healthy” vegetable oils, made up of lots of “healthy” poly-unsaturated fats (PUFAs). These vegetable oils react with heat, light, and oxygen as free radicals break down the PUFAs into rancid fats capable of attacking your body at the cellular level. Even if not heated, these fats are easily oxidized in the body and cause much damage within. High levels of polyunsaturated fats can actually compromise your immune system, overstress your liver and lead to more inflammation and scarring in your arteries. Fat Is Not the Enemy You Think It Is A few decades ago, people decided saturated fats (especially from meat), the same fats humans have eaten for eons, were bad. And the food industry pounced, introducing highly processed vegetable fats that had the same cooking properties as the healthy saturated fats people had been using. But was that really the truth or did we just create a new monster? "Actually, we know one of the mechanisms whereby colon cancer is initiated, and it does not involve meat per se. Colon cancer occurs when high levels of dietary vegetable oils and hydrogenated fats, along with certain carcinogens, are acted on by certain enzymes in the cells lining the colon, leading to tumor formation. This explains the fact that in industrialized countries, where there are many carcinogens in the diet and where consumption of vegetable oils and carcinogens is high, some studies have correlated meat-eating with 30 Day Transform 31