Limited Effect of
Dietary Saturated Fat on Plasma Saturated Fat in the Context of a Low Carbohydrate Diet.
Not exact matches
I'm not a dietician, but I used the «Recipe Analyzer» feature at http://www.calorieccount.com & here is the nutrition analysis I came up with using this recipe's stated ingredients: Nutrition Facts Serving Size 160 g Amount Per Serving Calories 422 Calories from
Fat 312 % Daily Value * Total
Fat 34.6 g 53 %
Saturated Fat 8.3 g 42 % Trans
Fat 0.0 g Cholesterol 0 mg 0 % Sodium 108 mg 5 % Potassium 310 mg 9 % Total Carbohydrates 28.6 g 10 %
Dietary Fiber 8.7 g 35 % Sugars 17.1 g Protein 5.4 g Vitamin A 0 % • Vitamin C 14 % Calcium 4 % • Iron 14 % Nutrition Grade B - * Based
on a 2000 calorie diet Nutritional Analysis Good points
We are very fortunate that in the last few years, the coconut oil producing countries have begun to wake up and not take for granted that the American view
on dietary oils, which states that
saturated fats are bad and increase cholesterol levels leading to heart disease, is true.
(See: Study:
Saturated Fat Not Associated with Risk of Coronary Artery Disease, Coconut Oil and Dairy
Fat Healthy and Big Pharma Study: USDA
Dietary Guidelines
on Fats are Wrong.)
You can watch actual film footage of the hearings
on the McGovern Report which determined USDA
dietary guidelines towards
saturated fats, which still exists today, in this short video:
The
dietary guidelines promotes the intake of vegetables, fruits, grains, low -
fat and
fat - free dairy, lean meats and other protein foods and oils, while urging limitations
on the consumption of
saturated fats, trans
fats, added sugars and sodium.
Yet,
on the other hand, they concede that a discounting incentive could lead to an «overall increase in
dietary measures such as
saturated fat, sodium, or total energy intake.»
The stars — based
on energy (kilojoules), risk nutrients (
saturated fat, sodium and sugars), positive nutrients (
dietary fibre, protein and the proportion of fruit, vegetable, nut and legume content)
Nutrition Information (Serving: whole recipe, not including «vita - cubes» because those will vary greatly depending
on what you use): Calories: 331, Total
Fat: 11.1 g,
Saturated Fat: 2.3 g, Cholesterol: 8 mg, Sodium: 161 mg, Total Carbohydrates: 39.1 g,
Dietary Fiber: 7.4 g, Sugars: 28.3 g, Protein: 20.6 g
Nutrition Facts Serving Size 1 ounce Amount Per Serving Calories 173 Calories from
Fat 139 Total
Fat 15.5 g
Saturated Fat 1.4 g Cholesterol 0mg0 % Sodium 275 mg Potassium 183 mg Total Carbohydrates 5.7 g
Dietary Fiber 2.4 g Sugars 0.7 g Protein 5.9 g Vitamin A 0 % • Vitamin C 1 % Calcium 2 % • Iron 8 % Nutrition Grade B + * Based
on a 2000 calorie diet
Colour - Coded % DI (CC - % DI) system indicating the percent
dietary contribution of energy, protein, total
fat,
saturated fat, total carbohydrate, sugar, fibre and sodium as in the M - % DI system, plus the relevant colour - code applied for total
fat,
saturated fat, sugar and sodium, based
on nutrition criteria used in the TL system (Figure 1).
Monochrome % DI (M - % DI) indicating the percent
dietary contribution of energy, protein, total
fat,
saturated fat, total carbohydrate, sugar, fibre and sodium, based
on the estimated nutrient requirements of a 70 kg adult with an energy requirement of 8700 kJ, as outlined in the Food Standards Code (Food Standards Australia New Zealand, 2008); and
Much of the dramatic increase in diabetes in modern society can be attributed to USDA
dietary guidelines issued back in the 1970s that blamed heart disease
on saturated fats.
(See: Hepatoprotective Activity of Dried - and Fermented - Processed Virgin Coconut Oil) As the foundation of the lipid theory of heart disease and the prejudices against
saturated fats and coconut oil in particular continue to crumble, more and more research will validate the truth of what is already known by millions of coconut oil consumers around the world: coconut oil is the healthiest
dietary oil
on earth!
The Australian
Dietary Guidelines recommend to «Limit intake of foods containing
saturated fat, added salt, added sugars and alcohol» providing information
on the types of these discretionary foods and drinks to limit1.
Analysis based
on 4 servings (includes 4 large slices sourdough whole wheat bread), 4 servings contain: Calories (Kcal) 357.9 % Calories From
Fat 57.6
Fat (G) 22.9
Saturated Fat (G) 8.3 Cholesterol (Mg) 358.9 Carbohydrates (G) 16.6
Dietary Fiber (G) 3.8 Total Sugars (G) 2.9 Net Carbs (G) 12.8 Protein (G) 19.2 Sodium (Mg) 237.0
Since 2010, the South Korean Special Act
on Safety Control of Children's
Dietary Life has required all chain restaurants with 100 or more establishments to display nutrient information
on menus including energy, total sugars, protein,
saturated fat and sodium
on menus.
Nutritional information, per serving: Calories 90 Total
Fat 1g
Saturated Fat 0g Trans
Fat 0g Cholesterol 0 mg Sodium 45 mg Total Carbohydrate 17g
Dietary Fiber 1g Sugars 14g Protein 3g Percent Daily Value: Vitamin A 15 %; Vitamin C 35 %; Calcium 20 %; Iron 2 %; * Percent Daily Values are based
on a 2,000 calorie diet.
The study that Ian Johnson cites in his comment piece
on dietary fats reported an association between the intake of
saturated fat and heart disease and cancer (16 July, p 18).
Each diet was based
on a healthful
Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH)- type diet, which is rich in fruits, vegetables, and low -
fat dairy foods, and low in
saturated and total
fat.
One aspect of the work, the evidence that higher levels of linoleic acid in the circulation are associated with a reduced risk of diabetes, seems consistent with
dietary guidelines recommending use of cooking
fats and other products based
on vegetable oils in preference to
saturated fats of animal origin.
If you eat this sort of breakfast every day, you are not only consuming high levels of sodium and
saturated fat, but you risk missing out
on dietary fibre and calcium.
A new report by the
Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, an independent group of 14 experts advising Health and Human Services (HHS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) which convenes every five years, says that we should ease up
on sugar and
saturated fats, but we don't need to worry so much about cholesterol anymore.
In the 2015 - 2020
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, for the first time in 35 years, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services removed the limit
on total
fat consumption in the American diet (though they still recommend getting less than 10 % of daily calories from
saturated fat).
The 2015 - 2020
Dietary Guidelines lifted the longstanding hard limit
on cholesterol, as many researchers now believe the cholesterol you eat doesn't have that much bearing
on the amount of artery - clogging LDL cholesterol floating in your bloodstream, and that
saturated fat (like fatty meats) and genetic makeup are the real driving force behind dangerously high cholesterol.
One review of
dietary fat and diabetes indicates that replacing trans and
saturated fats with unsaturated
fats has benefits
on insulin sensitivity and is likely to lessen the risk of type 2 diabetes.
In 1980, when the first U.S. government
dietary guidelines were published, the advice focused
on reducing total
fat,
saturated fat and
dietary cholesterol for coronary heart disease prevention.
(In 1977, the federal government had originally proposed advising cutting back
on the specific foods with
dietary cholesterol and
saturated fat — eggs, dairy, and meat — but thanks to industry lobbying, that didn't happen, either.)
27 Studies cited by the 2010 DGAC Report demonstrate varied metabolic responses to lowered
dietary saturated fat, with certain subpopulations exhibiting adverse rather than improved health outcomes.3 Two recent comprehensive meta - analyses indicate that
saturated fat is not linked to heart disease.28, 29 In fact, in a definitive review of forty - eight clinical trials, with over sixty - five thousand participants, the reduction or modification of
dietary fat had no effect
on mortality, cardiovascular mortality, heart attacks, stroke, cancer, or diabetes.30 Yet, avoiding
saturated fat remains a cornerstone of national
dietary guidance.
I've beaten this issue into the ground, but I'll say it again... If there's one fact you must understand about nutrition, it's that
saturated fat and
dietary cholesterol are essential parts of the natural human diet (and have been for thousands of years) and are not unhealthy for us depending
on the source of the food (organic, etc).
Influence of
dietary saturated fat intake
on endothelial fibrinolytic capacity in adults.
Based
on a nine - year - long investigation, Teicholz claims that
saturated fats have been wrongly vilified in the public eye, and that most of us need more
dietary fat in our diets.
As butter, coconut oil and the
fat on meat contain well over half of their calories as
saturated fat, this means that these healthy foods must be severely restricted if one wants to adhere to the
dietary guidelines.
It has NEVER been proven that
saturated fats or
dietary cholesterol have any effect
on heart disease.
Mechanistically the candidates for harm from
saturated fats seem to occur only in metabolic syndrome, and even there people with metabolic syndrome seem to do better
on low - carb diets with significant amounts of
dietary saturated fat, so the feared mechanisms probably aren't that crucial.
Other U.S.
dietary guidelines that adversely affect health have been more successful at convincing Americans to substitute vegetable oils for animal
fats, based
on the disproven notion that
saturated fat intake increases CVD risk.
Along the lines of your lecture, do you have any thoughts about that (small but intriguing) study that raises the possibility that «
dietary protein source may modify the effects of
saturated fat on atherogenic lipoproteins»; ie, eating butter with your beef may not be a cool thing to do?
Other speakers discussed how soy products will help meet U.S.
dietary guidelines, with its renewed emphasis
on plant - based diets; noted that the soy industry is working
on production of novel varieties of high oleic soybean oil low in
saturated fat; stressed the marketing of soy as a complete protein, perfectly appropriate as the only protein source for infants, children and adults; promoted the use of «stealth health» as opposed to «muscling» in change to force
dietary changes (that is, sneak soy into common food products); speculated
on how to remove the allergens from soy; and figure out what to do about the fact that soy doesn't actually taste very good.
Then she goes
on to describe the
dietary changes she made to improve her health «Eating as much
saturated fat (coconut products, cacao butter) as possible because
saturated fat stimulates cholesterol production.
«'' Although
dietary recommendations have focused
on restricting
saturated fat (SF) consumption to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, evidence from prospective studies has not supported a strong link between total SF intake and CVD events... A higher intake of dairy SF was associated with LOWER CVD risk.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3396447/ — «Although
dietary recommendations have focused
on restricting
saturated fat (SF) consumption to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, evidence from prospective studies has not supported a strong link between total SF intake and CVD events... A higher intake of dairy SF was associated with LOWER CVD risk.
The study investigated the effect of
dietary fat (classified as total,
saturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, omega 6, omega 3 and trans)
on a range of preclinical and clinical outcomes in women having IVF.
This statement replaces the outdated 1998 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement «Cholesterol in Childhood,» which has been retired.3 New data emphasize the negative effects of excess
dietary intake of
saturated and trans
fats and cholesterol as well as the effect of carbohydrate intake, the obesity epidemic, the metabolic / insulin - resistance syndrome, and the decreased level of physical activity and fitness
on the risk of adult - onset CVD.
Dietary fat intake has been previously studied for its effect
on reproductive health; for example, a high intake of trans -
fats has been associated with ovulatory infertility (as in polycystic ovary syndrome) and miscarriage, while
saturated fats have been related to lower sperm concentrations.
On a positive note, in line with our ancestors»
dietary habits, recent studies have shown that natural
saturated fat sources are not only delicious, but also essential to our health.
Conversely, because
saturated fats play so many beneficial roles, and because our bodies will contain large amounts of
saturated fat whether we embrace it in our diets or choose to avoid it, it makes little sense to make
dietary decisions based
on the fear that we are eating too much
saturated fat.
Nutrition Facts: Serving Size 1oz (about 10 chips) Servings per container 2 Calories 110 Calories from
fat 0 Total Fat 0g (0 %) Saturated Fat 0g (0 %) Cholesterol 0 mg (0 %) Sodium 210 mg (9 %) Total Carbohydrates 19g (6 %) Dietary Fiber 6g (24 %) Sugars 1g Protein 6g Vitamin A 2 % Vitamin C 0 % Calcium 2 % Iron 6 % * Percent Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie di
fat 0 Total
Fat 0g (0 %) Saturated Fat 0g (0 %) Cholesterol 0 mg (0 %) Sodium 210 mg (9 %) Total Carbohydrates 19g (6 %) Dietary Fiber 6g (24 %) Sugars 1g Protein 6g Vitamin A 2 % Vitamin C 0 % Calcium 2 % Iron 6 % * Percent Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie di
Fat 0g (0 %)
Saturated Fat 0g (0 %) Cholesterol 0 mg (0 %) Sodium 210 mg (9 %) Total Carbohydrates 19g (6 %) Dietary Fiber 6g (24 %) Sugars 1g Protein 6g Vitamin A 2 % Vitamin C 0 % Calcium 2 % Iron 6 % * Percent Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie di
Fat 0g (0 %) Cholesterol 0 mg (0 %) Sodium 210 mg (9 %) Total Carbohydrates 19g (6 %)
Dietary Fiber 6g (24 %) Sugars 1g Protein 6g Vitamin A 2 % Vitamin C 0 % Calcium 2 % Iron 6 % * Percent Daily Values based
on a 2,000 calorie diet.
«The positive ecological correlations between national intakes of total
fat and
saturated fatty acids and cardiovascular mortality found in earlier studies were absent or negative in the larger, more recent studies,» the authors wrote, concluding that «the harmful effect of
dietary saturated fatty acids and the protective effect of
dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids
on atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease are questioned.»
There is insufficient evidence to claim that we require some specific amount of
saturated fat in our diets every day, so it makes little sense to make
dietary decisions based
on the fear that we are not getting enough
saturated fat.
``... the disturbing story of nutrition science over the course of the last half - century looks something like this: scientists responding to the skyrocketing number of heart disease cases, which had gone from a mere handful in 1900 to being the leading cause of death by 1950, hypothesized that
dietary fat, especially of the
saturated kind (due to its effect
on cholesterol), was to blame.