If you wait long enough, nearly every medical study will be reversed, at least that's my belief. This time the reversal, or maybe semi-reversal as the article is couched in tentative language, is that eating saturated fats does not lead to an increased probability of heart disease.
For decades, health officials have urged the public to avoid saturated fat as much as possible, saying it should be replaced with the unsaturated fats in foods like nuts, fish, seeds and vegetable oils.
But the new research, published on Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, did not find that people who ate higher levels of saturated fat had more heart disease than those who ate less. Nor did it find less disease in those eating higher amounts of unsaturated fat, including monounsaturated fat like olive oil or polyunsaturated fat like corn oil.I read Gary Taubes's excellent book a couple of years ago in which he made the same point and suggested that the real culprits in heart disease are consuming excessive carbohydrates and refined sugar.
He said that looking at individual fats and other nutrient groups in isolation could be misleading, because when people cut down on fats they tend to eat more bread, cold cereal and other refined carbohydrates that can also be bad for cardiovascular health.This article and the study on which it is based is not a green light to go on an all-cheese diet. But it does signal the importance of keeping a balance in your diet, and avoiding refined sugar and high carbohydrate foods.
And you can enjoy that steak without guilt.
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Gary Taubes has been saying that for years. It's not exactly news.
I eat meat, fish, chicken, vegetables, fruits and corn tortillas.
The whole point is that all that matters is what shows up in your system, and that how it gets there is the patient's problem and predicament to figure out. I'm pretty sure it didn't say that people with heart issues and high triglycerides/chol can eat whatever they want. The fact that people without those disease markers can is probably what balances things out and allows for a conclusion as equivocal as this.
Ladies devoured my chocolate covered bacon, it's all gone now.
The thing is, nutritionists do not seems to distinguish plant-saturated fat from animal-saturated fat. And all I know, from eating it and using it, is hydrolized hydrolicalized xxxxx oil molecule chains stiffed with more H atoms, are weird. (But apparently make great tortillas)
I bought some from the little corner store. It looked like packages of butter but turned out to be hydol xxxxx stiffened margarine. Weird. weird weird weird.
I threw it away.
But that stuff is fake.
It's not saturated fat like chocolate, not saturated fat like coconut oil.
Clear vegetable oil is the same thing as being raped, that's why we're a rape culture. That crap was invented for machinery then the war ended and everybody was all, we got fields of this stuff, what now?
Clear vegetable oil is the same thing as being raped, that's why we're a rape culture.
Rapeseed oil?
When I was kid, we used to visit cousins in Beloit, WI. It was only a short drive from there to the Illinois border, and I remember my parents once buying a case of margarine. Colored margarine was illegal in Wisconsin then, but readily available across the border. They bought it because it was dirt cheap compared to real butter. I grew up on that stuff. They did later switch to the tub style margarine which better for you than the stick kind. Does anybody still sell stick margarine? It's loaded with trans fats.
We're a butter family btw, and the Wendy's TRIPLE w. CHEESE w. all the fixin's is my sandwich of choice--the better to maximize the protein with a min amt of carbs--can't GET any more food PC doubleplusungood than that!
Once again, the Lefties don't know what they're talkin' about.
Whoda thunk?
I never have guilt eating anything.
You are all monsters.
Pigs are good for eatin.
Just saying.
Archevore a site by a doctor who feels Taubes goes too far with keeping your body in ketosis all the time (so you're burning fat for energy). The first problem he noticed was he had no stamina for heavy work. He found that hovering just above ketosis did the trick for him as far as stamina.
His general recommendations were no flour or sugar, and go easy on the other grains. He said potatoes,sweet potatoes, bananas, and rice are fine because they're loaded with nutrients. He recommended no nuts because they're so easy to go overboard on, but if you can stick to two tbs. a day (I say), that would be good for the beneficial omegas. He doesn't demonize fruits as they are also packed with nutrients, and if I IIRC their sugars aren't as bad as table sugar(?), but maybe have only one per day. His bottom line was to get 20% of calories from carbs and the rest from, good fats, meats, cheeses, fish; red meat 2 times per week, fresh water salmon 2 times per week, and the rest chicken, I guess.
I have not done this yet, but it's such a relief not to have to give up carbs completely. 1/2 cup cooked rice is about 100 cal., 1/2 cup baked potato, no skin, 55 calories, one med. banana, 100 cal.
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