At the risk of starting a big debate
about animal fat and cholesterol, I will go ahead and tell you the one exception I made was to substitute bacon grease for vegetable oil in the cornbread recipe.
Studies with that as a huge confounding factor don't effectively demonstrate anything
about animal fats.
But I was wondering
about animal fats.
Not exact matches
The quality does count and when I talk
about saturated
fats, I am not referring to french fry grease and caged feedlot
animals.
Unfortunately, she's gluten - free, lactose - free and soy - free, can't have nuts of any kind, and has to be very careful
about where her
animal fats & proteins are sourced (they can't have any wheat in their diet either) so we just stick with Earth Balance Soy - free for a butter choice.
About Coast Packing Company Coast Packing Company (www.coastpacking.com), a closely held corporation, is the number one supplier of
animal fat shortenings — particularly lard and beef tallow — in the Western United States.
Daneu is asking
about coconut oil, not mentioning saturated
animal fat.
While
animals seem to balance their nutritional needs quite well without the technical knowledge of
fats, proteins, and carbohydrates, we incessantly count calories and measure grams of
fat, only to find out
about the latest study, which tells us that the rules of eating have changed once again.
The great thing
about the paleo diet, is that it focuses on using real whole foods, plenty of healthy
fats, vegetables, and moderate amounts of
animal protein.
- I know most of us think
about starting with fruits and vegetables, but the nutrients a baby needs in the second half of his / her first year come from
animal fats and proteins.
«We have demonstrated for the first time in an
animal model that maternal use of a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, resulted in increased
fat accumulation and inflammation in the liver of the adult offspring, raising new concerns
about the long - term metabolic complications in children born to women who take SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy,» says PhD student Nicole De Long, who presented this research on June 22nd at the joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and The Endocrine Society.
Participants were randomly assigned either to the group eating the then - standard diet, which was high in
animal fats and margarines, or to a group in which vegetable oil and corn oil margarine replaced
about half of those saturated
fats.
The study looked at a way to substitute
animal - based saturated
fats for plant - based unsaturated
fats in muffins made for patients with the metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that affect
about a third of adults in the United States, increasing their chance of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
Our ancestors also began domesticating and breeding
animals for food, but the result was more
fat in our diet: Wild game has only 4 percent of
fat, whereas supermarket beef has
about 36 percent [source: Bjerklie, Lemonick].
And don't be worried
about tallow if you see it on the label — probably not a favorite of vegans, but tallow (is the rendered
fat of
animals) has a creamy and stable lather and is added instead of using chemicals, is very moisturizing and gentle to your skin, and is a great ingredient option as it is a great way to use all parts of the
animal.
WAPF goes beyond this, and teaches truth
about nutrition, including the inclusion of
animal fats and raw dairy foods.
We have been eating
animal meats,
animal fat, and cholesterol for two million years, but heart disease has only been a major problem for us for
about 50 years.
For centuries, Eskimos lived on a diet of 90 to 100 %
animal foods — only meat and
fat — no fruits or vegetables at all for the majority of the year, and, at most,
about 10 % fruits during the summer months.
What Dr. Price discovered
about these special
animal foods is that they are very rich in what he called
fat - soluble activators, such as vitamin A and vitamin D, particularly when the
animals they came from had been grazing on rich, rapidly growing green grass.
Total
fat content of traditional diets varies from 30 % to 80 % but only
about 4 % of calories come from polyunsaturated oils naturally occurring in grains, pulses, nuts, fish,
animal fats and vegetables.
Start by reading our general guidelines, then move on to articles
about the
fat - soluble activators, vitamins A, D and K. Dr. Price's most important discovery was that all traditional diets contained very high levels of these vitamins, found in foods like egg yolks, butter, organ meats,
animal fats and certain sea foods.
IGF1 levels does not necessarily means that you're gonna get cancer.IGF1 is a metabolic pathway for growth, yes growth in general from muscle tissue, bones, even organs BUT.There is a huge difference from ingecting into yourself, artificial IGF1 HGH etc and causing you body to secrete it naturall.When i say naturally i'm not talking
about animal products (i am a vegan btw except some use of honey and bee pollen)
animal product consumption is linked to a numerous deseases due to saturated
fats, trans
fats, high concentrations of sulfuring aminos even heme iron http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23983135.Blaming soy protein (which btw has some great health benefits, general the soy bean) is at least wrong.Ok consuming every day 1 kg of soy probably is not good, as NOTHING is at very high quantities.Nothing wrong with natto, tempeh, tofu, soymilk, soybean, ans SPI.Asian people have been consuming soy for thousands of years without negative effects.Soy and especially SPI for people who are doing serious natural bodybuilding without use of AAS and artificial growth factors, and are also vegans believe me is a pain in the a $ $ and soy protein is maybe the ONLY type of protein that has sufficient ratios of amino acids, from bcaas to even sulfur aminos (but in normal levels not the dangerous levels linked to the homocysteine rise in the blood).
In the general population, foods that increase risk of atherosclerosis and ischemic stroke (including saturated
fat and
animal protein) are linked to lower risk of hemorrhagic stroke (
about 11 % of all strokes, but usually more severe).
I've not seen any type of «point / counterpoint» style posts by Dr. Greger and agree it would be nice to see the confusion addressed point by point as Dr. Hyman and some others have come out in a very Weston Price style support for saturated
fats which flies in the face of all we've read
about the dangers of
animal fats.
The lies
about the «failure» of the low -
fat issue you mention is that instead of actually cutting
fat by turning to WHOLE foods to get their nutrition needs, people actually ate the same fatty
animals, processed food and oil, but just went crazy on the sweets with the «new promise» of the food industry's low
fat processed crapola made from gobs of white flour, sugar, and chemicals, adding to the already unhealthy mix, so of course they got
fatter and sicker!
During the past century consumption of linoleic acid (LA) has increased from
about 2.8 percent to 8 percent of calorie intake partly as a consequence of government recommendations to substitute vegetable oils for
animal fats.
Much of my research had taught me
about the power of dietary
fats and how it's
fats from
animals, nuts, fish, and fruits that are the building blocks for testosterone.
I don't worry
about getting a particular number of
fat grams; I just eat whatever
fat comes with the meat / poultry / seafood I'm eating and I cook with plenty of
animal fat (duck
fat, lard, bacon
fat, etc).
Regarding your questions
about oils, here are some general points to consider: 1)
animal fat is generally worse for you than plant oils — due to
animal fat containing more saturated and trans
fats.
In fact, what he actually said
about animal sourced foods (in this case, milk and beef) in that particular video was that they're not a «good source» of nutrients b / c it isn't possible to get certain nutrients w / o the harmful doses of hormones and saturated
fats (not to mention a bunch of other industrial toxins found in
animal fat).
Here are some of the facts
about proteins: protein is essential to a healthy heart and a healthy body;
animal sources of protein including eggs are «better» for you nutritionally since they contain all of the essential amino acids; as with most nutrients and vitamins, both too much and too little protein have detrimental effects on the body; and, protein can not be «stocked» up like
fat but must be eaten daily.
The low
fat school of nutrition benefits greatly from the fact that the public has only vague notions
about vitamin A; for the family of water - soluble nutrients called carotenes are not true vitamin A, but are more accurately termed provitamin A. True vitamin A, or retinol, is found only in
animal products like cod liver oil, liver and other organ meats, fish, shell fish and butterfat from cows eating green grass.
THE LURE OF POLITICALLY CORRECT DIETS For some high - minded teenagers, anti-saturated
fat dogma may dovetail rather conveniently with pro-vegetarian arguments, 12 particularly because the search for «meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with
animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns
about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestyle.
I'm not talking
about the Crisco, but lard that comes from kidney
fat from
animals.
One of the wonderful things
about castile soap is that it is made from 100 % plant oils, no
animal fat and no chemicals.
Many people think taking out
animal products is the answer to being healthy, but we've been given SO much misinformation
about fat, cholesterol, and red meat being unhealthy.
Daneu is asking
about coconut oil, not mentioning saturated
animal fat.
Too often, someone hears me talking
about the amazing amino acids and forgets the nutritional basics of real whole food, quality
animal protein (like wild fish, pastured eggs and chicken, grass - fed red meat), organic veggies and fruit, healthy
fats (like olive oil, coconut oil and butter), fermented foods and broths, and no gluten, caffeine or sugar.
I understand the part
about the saturated
fats from meat and other
animal products causing harm, but some of us vegans eat lots of saturated
fats from the plant kingdom, and I think that is worthy of understanding regarding telomeres.
Here are just a few of the world's many indigenous cultures which eat a diet rich in saturated
animal fats.The interesting thing
about these indigenous cultures is that they carry literally NO body
fat, have great muscle tone and in addition have exceptional cardiovascular fitness.
It's really only oils and
animal fats you should worry
about.
The assumption is that such a diet is fattening because there's something
about eating a variety of foods, mostly junk foods, that is so rewarding or at least so less bland than a plain chow diet that both humans and
animals get
fat eating it.
^ Well, that's the message the Western medical literature has been repeating for
about 70 years, and looking at Loren Cordain
fat belly, I think the «you'll be screwed for including any
animal products» - pitch is spot on... okay jokes aside, the point was that there's no chance in a million year that blog is something what would be referred as «health blog», this is more like some kind of a Lierre Keith - style, anti-vegan blog which tries to be scientific.
Furthermore, while all those vegetables have a lot of nutrients, what
about all the nutrients stored in
fat by grass - fed
animals?
In general,
animal fats such as butter, lard and tallow contain
about 40 - 60 % saturated
fat and are solid at room temperature.
Are you talking
about the trace
fats found in foods like greens, celery and peppers or were you referring to only the
animal - based low glycemic foods?
In fact, avocados are
about 77 %
fat, by calories, making them even higher in
fat than most
animal foods (3).
Even though you know it's not anything to worry
about and a high -
fat diet actually can be incredibly healthy, the
animal instinct is strong and stubborn.
When it came to speaking
about the results of his studies to reporters he never explains what hydrogenated
fats are, and typically brought up butter and
animal fats as if to imply that's what he studied.
If the National Academy of Sciences is saying the only safe intake of trans
fats is zero, and
about one - fifth of American trans
fat intake is coming from
animal products, did they recommend that everyone should eat only vegan?