Not exact matches
Heart disease was rare in the early 1900's when our
diets were much higher in
animal fats.
I avoid processed
fats, like margarine or canola oil, but whole
fats from olives, avocados, coconuts, seeds, nuts, and humanely raised
animals (butter, lard, suet, schmaltz) are a necessary part of the
diet, and lead to feeling full in ways that allow people to cut down on sugar (which is less healthy, as you say).
If, as we have been told, heart disease is caused by consumption of saturated
fats, one would expect to find a corresponding increase in
animal fats in the American
diet.
During the sixty - year period from 1910 to 1970, the proportion of traditional
animal fat in the American
diet declined from 83 percent to 62 percent, and butter consumption plummeted from 18 pounds per person per year to four.
Saturated
fats like grass - fed butter, pastured lard, beef and lamb tallow from grazing
animals, coconut oil, and palm oil: all of these give us nourishment in a way that other
fats and lowfat
diets never can.
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.
I'd gladly take a simple vitamin B12 supplement on a plant based
diet than ingest the harmful tradeoffs of saturated
fats from
animal tissue to fortify my body with B - 12.
In the long run vegan
diets are more unhealthy than
diets that include
animal fats.
«There's more than one way to cook a turkey, as Kathy's deep fried turkey recipe demonstrates deliciously,» said Eric R. Gustafson, CEO of the 95 - year - old company and an advocate of healthy
animal fats in the American
diet.
For instance, my body doesn't seem to do well with extremes: too little food, a raw food
diet, too much
animal protein or refined carbs, too much natural sugar, added sugar, extremely high amounts of protein or extremely high amounts of
fat, etc. etc. etc..
The majority of a person's calories on a high carb low
fat vegan
diet come from plant - based carbs (no
animal products).
Traditionally, people would get a lot of gelatine in their
diet through eating all parts of an
animal, cooking in
animal fat and drinking bone broths.
A plant - based
diet often reduces the intake of saturated
fat,
animal hormones, and cholesterol while increasing the intake of fresh fruits and veggies.
I eat a pretty strict «Primal Blueprint»
diet... no grains, legumes, refined sugar, LOTS of
animal protein, healthy
fats, nuts, seeds and vegetables with a limited dairy intake... BUT I do enjoy a Meatless Monday on occasion.
Intakes of trans -
fats,
animal proteins, sodium, cholesterol and sugars also decreased when almonds were added to the
diet.
Plant - based meals are typically low in saturated
fat, and since cholesterol is found only in
animal products such as meat, dairy, and eggs, it's easy to consume a cholesterol - free
diet.
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.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a Washington - based group that promotes low -
fat, vegetarian
diets and opposes what it deems inhumane experiments on
animals and humans, acknowledges that it has conducted no independent research.
He found that people eating non-processed foods and indigenous
diets in many places around the world didn't have the health problems we experience in developed countries like the United States — and that those
diets are particularly rich in
fat and proteins from healthy
animals and other real food sources.
Another person resolved her migraine problem by eliminating ALL
animal fat the week before menstruation (skim milk, non-
fat yogurt ok), and adding evening primrose oil to her
diet.
Women who eat
diets high in
animal fats prior to pregnancy are twice as likely to get gestational diabetes and those with high cholesterol are 45 % more likely to get it.
The research team compared acetate to other short - chain fatty acids and found higher levels of acetate in
animals that consumed a high -
fat diet.
«Replacement of traditional
diets containing coconut - derived lauric acid with palm oil - derived palmitic acid or
animal fat - derived stearic acid has the potential to worsen the development of both metabolic syndrome and osteoarthritis.»
«While the data suggests we need to exercise caution when considering the implications of high -
fat diets during pregnancy, we can't yet make that leap to apply these findings in
animal models directly to humans,» said Dr. Tamashiro.
The researchers also found that Ötzi had three gallstones, supporting the idea that he had a
diet rich in
animal fat.
«Our results using an
animal model suggest that a maternal high -
fat diet during pregnancy and lactation could have significant and lasting effects on the brain, behavior and cognition of rat pups,» said Dr. Tamashiro.
When the group stopped the gene working in mice, the
animals no longer developed diabetes if fed a high -
fat diet.
The
animals had developed the condition after a high -
fat diet had made them obese.
To mimic this obesogenic environment, the teams led by Mara Dierssen at CRG and Rafael Maldonado at UPF offered mice the option of a high -
fat «cafeteria»
diet or a mixture of chopped - up commercial chocolate bars alongside their regular lab chow, before carrying out a detailed analysis of the
animals» activity and feeding behaviour.
The team found that
animals on the high
fat or chocolate
diet also changed their daily routines.
But there is evidence that the traditional Atkins
diet, which is high in
animal fat, is not optimal.
In his book, The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated
Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease, Swedish physician Uffe Ravnskov asserts that as of 1998, 27 studies on diet and heart disease had been published regarding 34 groups of patients; in 30 of those groups investigators found no difference in animal fat consumption between those who had heart disease and those who did n
Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease, Swedish physician Uffe Ravnskov asserts that as of 1998, 27 studies on
diet and heart disease had been published regarding 34 groups of patients; in 30 of those groups investigators found no difference in
animal fat consumption between those who had heart disease and those who did n
fat consumption between those who had heart disease and those who did not.
In
animals, fructose - rich
diets increase the production of
fat and promote resistance to the energy - regulating hormone insulin.
The total carbohydrate content of the new
diet will be exceedingly low — on the order of 5 percent, which translates to only the carbohydrates that occur naturally in meat, fish, fowl, eggs, cheese,
animal fat and vegetable oil, along with servings of green leafy vegetables.
Animals were fed a mouse chow low in
fat and rich in plant polysaccharides, or one of two
diets reflecting the upper or lower tertiles of consumption of saturated
fats and fruits and vegetables based on the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
To examine the regulatory effects of Sestrin 3, the
animals were fed a
diet with 18 percent of its calories from
fat or a high -
fat diet with 60 percent of calories from
fat.
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.
Four different
animal studies presented at the recent Society for Neuroscience meeting add another mandate to the list: High -
fat diets during pregnancy could have sweeping effects on a female's offspring.
Lower doses of resveratrol were twice as effective as the higher dose in stopping tumours growing, although this effect was only seen in
animals fed a high -
fat diet.
In the study, the gut microbiota of the
animals that were fed a
diet rich in sugar and
fat have a diminished capacity to communicate with host cells.
Experiments with mice show that after just four weeks on a high -
fat or a high - sugar
diet, the performance of mice on various tests of mental and physical function began to drop, compared to
animals on a normal
diet.
In this research, after just four weeks on a high -
fat or a high - sugar
diet, the performance of mice on various tests of mental and physical function began to drop, compared to
animals on a normal
diet.
To discover this, collaborators at Virginia Tech first fed the cocoa compound to
animals on a high -
fat diet.
They found that by adding it to the high -
fat diet, the compound would decrease the level of obesity in the
animals and would increase their ability to deal with increased blood glucose levels.
In order to mimic the western
diet, mice were fed a high
fat, high carbohydrate (HFHC)
diet while control
animals were fed a traditional
diet of mice chow.
The pollutants have shown up in the
fat of marine
animals that are an important part of their
diet.
That all polar bears have the same version indicates that it is very beneficial, perhaps enabling the
animals to eat lots of
fat without developing artery - clogging plaques that can plague humans who eat high -
fat diets, says study co-author Eline Lorenzen, a molecular ecologist at the University of California (UC), Berkeley.
Furthermore, «because some hunter - gatherer societies obtained most of their dietary energy from wild
animal fat and protein does not imply that this is the ideal
diet for modern humans, nor does it imply that modern humans have genetic adaptations to such
diets.»
They gave mice a high - calorie
diet and examined the changes in the
animals»
fat tissue.
Modern mimic: On Mark's Daily Apple blog — a Paleo lifestyle forum — a commenter optimistically proclaims that the «high
animal fat, low carb Paleo / traditional whole food
diet... protects against all cancers» because it strengthens the immune system and makes the body strong.