A few months ago myself and two of the most eminent cardiologists in the world, Professor Rita Redberg from the University of California, San Francisco and editor of JAMA Internal Medicine and Pascal Meier, editor of BMJ Open Heart wrote a widely publicised editorial, citing up to date evidence and explaining the biology as to why insulin resistance and inflammation, and
NOT dietary saturated fat, clogs the arteries.
Not exact matches
Not a significant source of
saturated fat, cholesterol,
dietary fiber, sugars, vitamin A, vitamin C and calcium.
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.)
Not a significant source of calories from fat,
saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol,
dietary fiber, sugars, calcium and iron.
Over the years, data revealed that
dietary saturated fatty acids (SFAs) are
not associated with CAD and other adverse health effects or at worst are weakly associated in some analyses when other contributing factors may be overlooked.
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
Not a significant source of
saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol,
dietary fiber, vitamin D, calcium, iron and potassium.
Keys and his colleagues, with support from the sugar industry, were effective at discrediting research from around the same time by John Yudkin that sugar,
not cholesterol from
saturated fats, is the main
dietary source of most modern Western culture's obesity, diabetes, and cardiac issues.
Not a significant source of
saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol,
dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium or iron.
Not a significant source of
saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol,
dietary fiber, total sugars, added sugars, vitamin D, calcium, iron, and potassium.
Nutrition Facts Serving Size 27 g Servings Per Container 14 Amount Per Serving Calories 100Calories from Fat 15 % Daily Value * Total Fat 2 g 3 %
Saturated Fat 0.50 g 3 % Cholesterol 45 mg 15 % Sodium 60 mg 2 % Potassium 150 mg 4 % Total Carbohydrate 7 g 2 %
Dietary Fiber 3 g 11 % Sugars 3 g Protein 15 g 31 % Calcium 11 % Phosphorus 11 % Magnesium 5 % -LRB--) Information is currently
not available for this nutrient.
12 servings, 1 serving contains (analysis does
not include ice cream): Calories (kcal) 369.2 % Calories from Fat 42.9 Fat (g) 17.6
Saturated Fat (g) 10.9 Cholesterol (mg) 76.9 Carbohydrates (g) 49.3
Dietary Fiber (g) 0.5 Total Sugars (g) 33.3 Net Carbs (g) 48.8 Protein (g) 4.0 Sodium (mg) 186.7
The control diet, which increased
dietary linoleic acid by 38 % but did
not alter
saturated fat, produced a modest but significant reduction in serum cholesterol compared with baseline (− 5 mg / dL (SD 30 mg / dL); − 1.0 % (SD 14.5 %); P < 0.001)(fig 3 ⇑ and table 2 ⇑).
The
dietary guideline is
not only recommending cutting out trans fat foods (which is good), but it also advises limiting the daily consumption of
saturated fats to only 10 percent of your daily intake of calories.
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.
Eat less
saturated fat The question of whether
dietary fat plays a role in breast cancer has proven controversial; some studies have found a link, while others haven't.
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.
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.
As for the study's contention that eliminating
saturated fat wasn't helpful for the participants, Belury said
saturated fat is clearly a
dietary villain.
According to research, more
dietary fiber, and
not necessarily less cholesterol or
saturated fat, is linked to a reduced risk of type - 2 diabetes and heart disease in teenagers.
However, vegans (supplemented properly with Vit B12) still lower their risk for cardiovascular disease by
not throwing more
dietary saturated fat + cholesterol onto the fire, raising LDL even further than necessary.
(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.
You should
not get more than 10 percent of your daily calories from
saturated fat, according to the
Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010.
All four diets are bound by a single commonality — a reduction in
dietary carbohydrates, and specifically,
not a reduction in
dietary fat,
saturated or otherwise.
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).
Drugs can alleviate symptoms but they can't change the «pathophysiology,» he says, and concludes: «It is time to bust the myth of the role of
saturated fat in heart disease and wind back the harms of
dietary advice that has contributed to obesity.»»
Further adjustment for other
dietary variables potentially related to inflammation (intakes of
saturated fat, omega - 3 fatty acids, vitamin C or E, β - carotene, lutein and zeaxanthin, and coffee or fish consumption) and physical activity at baseline or postsecondary school qualification did
not affect the results (data
not shown).
«We need to worry more about
saturated fat and
not so much about
dietary cholesterol,» says Miriam Nelson, Ph.D., a nutrition professor at Tufts University who is also a member of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Com
dietary cholesterol,» says Miriam Nelson, Ph.D., a nutrition professor at Tufts University who is also a member of the
Dietary Guidelines Advisory Com
Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.
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.
Not a significant source of
saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol,
dietary fiber, sugars, vitamin A, vitamin C, and iron.
2) Considering that the participants had high
saturated fat intakes, low fiber intakes and low folate intake, this does
not point towards a healthy diet that even meets the minimum
dietary recommendations.
There is also likely trepidation regarding such a high fat intake — particularly
saturated fat — despite mounting evidence even in the medical mainstream that
saturated fat intake is
not associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease, and that reductions in carbohydrate intake, in fact, can improve risk for heart disease.55 Promising avenues for research in
dietary therapy for AD are hindered by an outdated nutritional paradigm.
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.
However, the most recent
Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) removed dietary cholesterol as a nutrient of concern, given that there is «no appreciable relationship between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol or clinical cardiovascular events in general populations,» so cholesterol content should not deter you from consumption of saturated fat (Mozaffarian & Ludwig, 2015, p.
Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) removed
dietary cholesterol as a nutrient of concern, given that there is «no appreciable relationship between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol or clinical cardiovascular events in general populations,» so cholesterol content should not deter you from consumption of saturated fat (Mozaffarian & Ludwig, 2015, p.
dietary cholesterol as a nutrient of concern, given that there is «no appreciable relationship between
dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol or clinical cardiovascular events in general populations,» so cholesterol content should not deter you from consumption of saturated fat (Mozaffarian & Ludwig, 2015, p.
dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol or clinical cardiovascular events in general populations,» so cholesterol content should
not deter you from consumption of
saturated fat (Mozaffarian & Ludwig, 2015, p. 2421).
As this latest study shows, you eliminate
saturated fats from your diet at your own peril, as doing so will actually increase,
not decrease, your risk of heart disease, particularly if you replace them with carbohydrates, which are the true
dietary villain you need to be avoiding.
The study found that
dietary intake of
saturated fatty acids is associated with a modest increase in serum total cholesterol — but
not with cardiovascular disease.
Not a significant source of
saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol,
dietary fiber, vitamin A and calories from fat.
«'' 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.
Not a significant source of
saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol,
dietary fiber and calories from fat.
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.
Highly protective lauric acid should be called a conditionally essential fatty acid because it is made only by the mammary gland and
not in the liver like other
saturated fats.65 We must obtain it from one of two
dietary sources — small amounts in butterfat or large amounts in coconut oil.
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.
Not a significant source of
saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol,
dietary fiber, total sugars, added sugars, vitamin D, calcium, iron and potassium.
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.
29 Two years later, another study was published in the highly - esteemed British Medical Journal that concluded, «
Saturated fats are not associated with all - cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, stroke, or type 2 diabetes...» 30 Dietary saturated fats protect the heart and reduce the risk of cardiovascular d
Saturated fats are
not associated with all - cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, stroke, or type 2 diabetes...» 30
Dietary saturated fats protect the heart and reduce the risk of cardiovascular d
saturated fats protect the heart and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.31
Strong and consistent evidence indicates that
dietary n - 6 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) are associated with improved blood lipids related to cardiovascular disease (CVD), in particular when PUFA is a replacement for
dietary saturated fatty acid (SFA) or trans fatty acid.