Large amounts of unsaturated fatty acids that are not balanced
by dietary saturated fats may result in low hormone production, cancer, autoimmune disease and many other problems.
Not exact matches
In response to a petition submitted
by the American Heart Association, the FDA has amended the regulation about the relationship between
dietary saturated fat and cholesterol and the risk of coronary heart disease.
Most people still cling to the old misguided «science» of
saturated fats causing obesity and heat disease created
by one flawed study and carried
by the medical establishment and the media, enough to create a huge no or low
fat industry that actually has contributed more to obesity and heart disease than any other
dietary choice before.
This new study and many other previous studies clearly contradict the propaganda espoused
by Big Pharma and the U.S. Government
dietary advice, which has been waging a war against
saturated fats since the 1970s and the McGovern Report that promoted the false hypothesis that
saturated fats led to an increase in lipid cholesterol levels and an increased risk for heart disease.
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.
(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!
Calories: 199kcal Weight Watchers PointsPlus 5
Saturated fatty acids: 0.66 g Monounsaturated fatty acids: 1.99 g Polyunsaturated fatty acids: 5.01 g Total
fat: 7.66 g Calories from
fat: 68 Cholesterol: — Carbohydrate,
by difference: 31.48 g Total
dietary fiber: 4.43 g Protein: 4.13 g
A new Norwegian diet intervention study (FATFUNC), performed
by researchers at the KG Jebsen center for diabetes research at the University of Bergen, raises questions regarding the validity of a diet hypothesis that has dominated for more than half a century: that
dietary fat and particularly
saturated fat is unhealthy for most people.
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 ⇑).
Nucleus accumbens inflammation mediates anxiodepressive behavior and compulsive sucrose seeking elicited
by saturated dietary fat
The other reason, may be identified in the new
Dietary Guidelines for Americans issued
by the government, that still advice cutting down your
fat intake,
saturated fat in particular.
Back in the 70's, when the nation was threatened
by the rapidly increasing number of deaths from cardiovascular diseases and science had just uncovered that a diet high in
saturated fats and cholesterol poses a serious threat for cardiovascular health, health officials issued
dietary advice that entailed consuming less
fat.
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.
Though the most recent federal
Dietary Guidelines take a step in the right direction
by denouncing processed sugar and
saturated fat, the EWG feels there's still more work to be done.
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 2001, Hooper's group concluded a similar analysis of 27 studies and concluded that overall
dietary fat should be reduced, and some
saturated fat remaining in the diet should be replaced
by unsaturated
fat.
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.
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.
«In summary, randomized controlled trials that lowered intake of
dietary saturated fat and replaced it with polyunsaturated vegetable oil reduced CVD
by?
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.
Keep your heart healthy
by consuming no more than 10 percent of your total caloric intake from
saturated fat, reports the
Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010.
Women with a higher intake of
dietary saturated fats have fewer mature oocytes available for collection in IVF, according to results of a study from the Harvard School of Public Health funded
by the US National Institutes of Health.
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.
Despite this study and a host of others (3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10) showing that low
fat, high carbohydrate / sugar diets have been shown to increase heart disease risks
by contributing to the conversion of large LDL particles to small particles, elevating triglycerides and lowering HDL and other
saturated fat studies resulting in shifts to large buoyant LDL (5), the 2015 - 2020
Dietary Guidelines for Americans continues to encourage the public to adopt a low
fat diet.
That's why we were infuriated
by the American Heart Association's (AHA) position statement, «
Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease,» which attacked
saturated fats — and coconut oil specifically.
A diet low in
saturated fat and high in
dietary fiber and complex carbohydrates may reduce insulin secretion, both directly
by reducing the postprandial glycaemic response (39, 40), and indirectly
by reducing adiposity (41), causing a large increase in the production of IGFBP - 1 within the liver (42).»
``... 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.
This disastrous misinformation is based on the radical change in government
dietary policy promulgated
by Ancel Keys, a scientist who rose to become a leading authority on heart disease, cholesterol and
saturated fats in the 1950s.
The definitive book on the non-dangers of
dietary cholesterol and
saturated fat was The Cholesterol Myths
by Uffe Ravnskov, 2000.
In this population, a higher
dietary ED represented a
dietary pattern characterized
by higher intakes of
saturated and trans
fats and refined carbohydrates and lower intakes of fruit and vegetables.
Finally, although meat was not specifically discussed in detail
by the AHA Advisory, at least 4 of the top 10 sources of
dietary saturated fats are meat based dishes such as chicken and bacon and the need to reduce these foods is obvious for health yet generated little reaction
by the media.