Posted on 10/23/2013 7:24:23 PM PDT by Rusty0604
The British Medical Journal has issued a clarion call to all who want to ward off heart disease: Forget the statins and bring back the bacon (or at least the full-fat yogurt). Saturated fat is not the widow-maker it's been made out to be, writes British cardiologist Aseem Malhotra in a stinging "Observations" column in the BMJ: The more likely culprits are empty carbs and added sugar.
He musters a passel of recent research that suggests that the "obsession" with lowering a patients' total cholesterol with statins, and a public health message that has made all sources of saturated fat verboten to the health-conscious, have failed to reduce heart disease.
Indeed, he writes, they have set off market forces that have put people at greater risk. On the question of which is worse -- saturated fat or added sugar, Lustig added, "The American Heart Assn. has weighed in -- the sugar many times over."
Real food includes saturated fat, Lustig said, and real food lives up to the principle that food should confer wellness, not illness. "Instead of lowering serum cholesterol with statins, which is dubious at best, how about serving up some real food?"
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It’s not a coincidence that the obesity and diabetes epidemics took off at around the same time that the low-fat craze began back in the 1970s and 1980s.
Foods high in saturated fat also tend to be high in cholesterol. So it is kind of ridiculous to think you can eat unlimited saturated fat when you are potentially killing yourself with cholesterol. Plus, cardiovascular disease is just one of a number of vascular and microvascular diseases.
My digestive system has never functioned well if I ate too many carbs, but I feel fine if I stick to meat, eggs, cheese, veggies, nuts and some fruit and beans.
I do like pasta, baked potatoes, rice, etc., but have to watch how much I eat.
That is assuming that cholesterol is the killer that you have been told it is. I don’t think the word “unlimited” is good to describe anything we consume.
Man !! That looks yummy!!
Coconut oil is the way to go!
Homemade yogurt from whole milk is miles away from the low fat high sugar yogurt that dominates the grocery store shelves.
Also, exercise is the answer. Calories in, calories out. So SIMPLE. Not easy, but simple.
Wrong.
Excuse me, but that reply leaves me scratching my head. Your breast-milk pumps "beg to differ" about the most non-technical scientific definition of saturated fat??? What would your pumps have to say about the highly technical definition, I wonder?
I’m wrong about the non-technical definition of saturated fat, and my use of it to classify the nature of the fat in breast milk?
I don’t think so.
The simplest non-technical way of determining whether a fat is saturated is to see whether it is liquid or solid at room temperature. If it is solid, it is saturated. Since I do not recall ever seeing breast milk fats solidify, I assess that they are unsaturated.
God bless Dr. Atkins. He saved my life. Other authors, doctors, and experts have taken up his clarion call.
The Center for “Science” in the Public “Interest” have successfully de-fatted a lot of foods, which has caused the obesity and diabetes epidemics in our country.
Things like canned meats and fish are so bone-dry and cardboardy that I can’t even get my cats to eat them.
And (I’m convinced) it was all to enhance their profits from their participation in the “weight loss” industry.
But remember, “It’s Better With Butter!”
And I agree that it was a stinking lie to bandy about that Dr. Atkins’s death was from his diet.
Another lie they told was that he died very fat. No, he had edema from the drugs with which they were treating his severe head injury.
I was a member of the Atkins Diet forum at the time, and we got the truth from the Atkins Co. people about that tragedy.
Dreamfields pastas are low-glycemic. They are available in my local grocery store, and they are indistinguishable from high-carb “regular” pasta. They come in black boxes, so it is easy to spot them on the pasta shelves.
My favorite is the Rotini.
Dannon makes an all-natural, whole-milk, plain yogurt.
It’s pretty good. A little Truvia, a few blueberries and raw almonds, and you’re good to go.
Breakfast of champions.
So many interesting spinoffs from his research as well, such as the “almost all fat” diet that radically limits seizures in epileptics that get no benefit from anti-seizure drugs.
And just within the last day or two, it was announced that there really is no cardio benefit to lowering total cholesterol, and that saturated fats are likely quite good for you.
If your head itches get a better shampoo. You know exactly the point I was making. The top of room temp breast milk has a layer of fat that has separated from the rest of the liquid. That’s why I have to warm bottles so that the fat can be redistributed throughout the container. Do a quick search on the type of fat in breast milk and you’ll find that indeed, it contains saturated fat.
Thanks!
I use that sometimes when I forget to set some of my own yogurt aside for starter. I agree it is a good choice. We also use it in the raw food diet we have our dogs on.
That would only be true if you were speaking about the isolated fat. The fat content in human breast milk varies as does the fatty acid composition.
Besides it does not really matter, what matters is that breast milk is what human infants are supposed to consume unless the mother’s or their health makes that impossible.
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