It was found that women who had regularly
eaten the highest amounts of saturated fats had the least amount of additional plaque buildup in their arteries.
Not exact matches
The clinical trial included more than 400 people who
ate the so - called DASH diet (which features
high amounts of fruits, vegetables, low -
fat dairy and low
amounts of fats and
saturated fats), or a typical American diet.
She recommends
eating regular meals throughout the day (including snacks), limiting
saturated (bad)
fat intake and including small
amounts of mono or polyunsaturated (good)
fats, choosing
high - fibre and low - GI carbohydrates and
eating plenty
of nutrient - rich fruit and vegetables.
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.
When we
eat cholesterol from outside sources (meats, eggs, dairy) or when we
eat excessive
amounts of saturated fats (oil, for example) our blood cholesterol levels become too
high which leads to heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease, and multiple other cholesterol - related conditions.
The science is clear that
high quality
saturated and mono unsaturated
fats are better for you than poly unsaturated and trans
fats, and it also seems clear that
eating small
amounts of these
high - quality
fats may be beneficial... But there is absolutely zero evidence to suggest that basing one's diet on these
fats is beneficial in the long run, and there is several decades» worth
of research to suggest that
eating too much
fat and animal products is linked to cardiovascular disease.
Weston Price studied people
eating massive
amounts of saturated fat and cholesterol in places where their intake
of high antioxidant foods kept the LDL from oxidizing.
Since I
eat a fair
amount of saturated fat from coconut oil and organic palm shortening, and I usually mix both with nuts (raw nuts but I bake with palm shortening so they aren't raw anymore: — RRB -, am I risking creating Alzheimers by mixing sat
fat and
high copper foods?