Animal Fats & Cholesterol and Fat: From Talk at LACC

“Dr. Pottenger out here puts his obese patients on lots of animal fats because the lecithin in the natural fat will melt away the surplus fat. And it works” ~ Royal Lee

Everybody today is alert to the harm of high cholesterol because that’s what makes people drop dead with heart disease. One of the factors, it’s only one but it’s one important one. The best way to get yourself all primed up to drop dead is to eat hydrogenated fats. Now, the average doctor is ignorant of this thing. He looks in his textbook and finds out where people can get cholesterol in their diet an he finds butter has got cholesterol in it, and that all of our animal fats have cholesterol. So, here’s a patient with a little hypertension and high blood cholesterol and he says don’t eat eggs, don’t eat butter. Well eggs and butter contain lecithin, which is the antidote for cholesterol. Dr. Pottenger out here puts his obese patients on lots of animal fats because the lecithin in the natural fat will melt away the surplus fat. And it works. But, if you go on a high calorie diet an omit all the fat and eat your starches and carbohydrates that you get in these refined cereals you will be putting more fat on your back that you can’t get rid of because you don’t get the lecithin which mobilizes and burns it up. You’re in the same pictures as the man with a big bank account and no checkbook. He can’t use the money and you can’t burn up the fat on your own back if you don’t have lecithin as an emulsifier. The best way to reduce a fat person is to tell them to eat all the fat meat thy can get a hold of and all the butter they can eat. I’d say it’s a little better to get the lecithin without the fat, without the calories, but it’s also very valid to avoid these foods that give you calories only and that build up your cholesterol and brings on these dangers of the hardening of the arteries and coronary disease.

Sugar and flour are the first things to throw out in the diet because they are pure calories and don’t contribute anything but fat to the body. Starch goes into fat. Sugar goes into fat. If you want to fatten a pig what do you give them? You feed them a lot of corn-cornstarch.

This article is from the transcription of the audio clip used in the presentation by Dr. George Goodheart, Nutritional Wisdom of the Masters. This is a verbatim transcript from the audio archives entitled: Lectures of Dr. Royal Lee, Volume II. Published on Audio Disc by Selene River Press, Inc. Published in Wellness Star News with permission from Michael Dobbins, D.C.