Lard as a fat source in the diet

According to the raport of World Health Organization, number of overweight people in the World (BMI > 25 kg/m²) in 2002 came to 1 billion.300 hundred millions of them are obese (BMI >30 kg/m²). Increase of obesity through the Word is seeing for a number of years, and, in 2008 it was accounted, that 2.3 billion are overweight, and, respectively, 700 millions are obese. Why does governmental recommendations doesn't work? And why they don't want to admit that? We are living in fat hypothesis - what says, that heart diseases and obese is a result of fat consumption. But, science don't support well that view. Here, I'll write a litle bit about lard. Enjoy.

Red meat, L-carnitine and atherosclerosis

In the current year (2013), at 7 April one article showed up in Nature magazine, introducing results from studies telling us that L-carnitine found in red meat has atherosclerosis potential (link). Conversion of this aminoacid to the atherosclerotic substance (which is trimethylamien N-oxide - TMAO) occur in participate of gut microflora. Authors of the research concluded, that eating of red meat may increase the risk of development cardiovascular disease because of increasing size of plaque. So, in that view, We should avert red meat in our diet.