Maya Roseman explains – why steak or yellow cheese is actually healthy

“I want to be Poland and tell you: I told you! These are not new things,” Rosman declared at the beginning of the interview. “Saturated fat is not something that the Ministry of Health should mark with red stickers.”

She said that already about thirty years ago it was discovered that saturated fat does not cause diseases. “Most of the problems are sugar, bad carbohydrates, trans fat and especially industrialized food, and this causes heart disease much more than an egg or two a day, yellow cheese or red steak. You have to look at the whole.”

According to Dr. Rozman, “In the 1950s, it was assumed that saturated fat causes heart disease. Towards the 1980s, studies began to come out that said: voila – this is not the main factor. It was necessary to go out with courage against this consensus, and it turns out that courage is needed today as well.”

“I don’t know why it takes so long for health ministries around the world to announce that saturated fat is not that bad, and it can be integrated into a proper diet,” she wondered.

In the eyes of the nutrition expert, sometimes it is even recommended to consume foods high in saturated fat. “The chances are that I can incorporate an egg every day even for a person who has high cholesterol, and this will contribute to their health, because the egg has the highest quality proteins, lecithin, important vitamins, or yellow cheese, which is recommended for menopausal women,” she said.

She emphasized: “Industrialized food is not included in a proper diet, but there is no problem with incorporating an egg a day into a healthy diet, there is no problem with yellow cheese nor with red meat. The labels ‘high amount of saturated fat’? – This is not relevant, it is relevant to the days of fifty years ago.”

So what is a balanced diet in her eyes? “Does it include carbohydrates? I’m in favor of combining food for the soul, and if what tastes good to you is waffles, you can combine it, but I won’t put it in my mouth personally,” she replied.

However, Rosman estimates that this revolutionary announcement will not affect fast food and industrialized companies. “In such food pyramid guidelines, we are told to take responsibility for what we put in our mouths. They cannot ban McDonald’s or Coca-Cola.” She added: “Now they say: we were wrong and we were wrong, and you should know that you need to be careful not to eat industrialized things.”