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.
Not exact matches
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.
(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!
Since 2010, the South Korean Special Act on Safety Control of Children's
Dietary Life has required all chain restaurants with 100 or
more establishments to display nutrient information on menus including energy, total sugars, protein,
saturated fat and sodium on menus.
School lunches must meet the applicable recommendations of the
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which recommend that no
more than 30 percent of an individual's calories come from
fat, and less than 10 percent from
saturated fat.
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.
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.
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.
More specifically, controversy continues to surround the theories that 1)
dietary fat,
saturated fat, and cholesterol cause heart disease, obesity, diabetes and cancer and should be replaced in the diet with polyunsaturated vegetable oils; 2) a diet high in carbohydrates will reduce the risk of chronic disease; and 3) excessive sodium intake is the primary variable in the etiology of hypertension, a risk factor for heart disease.
You should not get
more than 10 percent of your daily calories from
saturated fat, according to the
Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010.
Based on a nine - year - long investigation, Teicholz claims that
saturated fats have been wrongly vilified in the public eye, and that most of us need
more dietary fat in our diets.
The
Dietary Guidelines for Americans suggest that we try to limit
saturated fats to no
more than 10 percent of our daily intake.
Animal
fat, that being
saturated fat, serves no
dietary purpose for us and the
more we consume the less healthy we are.
The point being we make enough
saturated fat so we have no
dietary need to consume any
more.
«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.
Today's macros look
more that this Grams Calories Calories 2,372
Fat 301.8 2,717
Saturated 122.8 1,105 Polyunsaturated 9 81 Monounsaturated 29.5 266 Carbohydrate 13.8 54
Dietary Fiber 2.5 Protein 116.6 478 Alcohol 0 0 I will give your macros a go this week and see what happens.
Other U.S.
dietary guidelines that adversely affect health have been
more successful at convincing Americans to substitute vegetable oils for animal
fats, based on the disproven notion that
saturated fat intake increases CVD risk.
Through the USDA food pyramid and official
dietary guidelines, the US government promotes a diet containing no
more than 30 percent of calories as
fat, with no
more than 10 percent of calories as
saturated fat.
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.
There is definitely a lot
more levels of complexity behind this understanding, but the overarching thought is that
dietary cholesterol,
dietary fats, and especially
saturated fats were the main culprit.
«The positive ecological correlations between national intakes of total
fat and
saturated fatty acids and cardiovascular mortality found in earlier studies were absent or negative in the larger,
more recent studies,» the authors wrote, concluding that «the harmful effect of
dietary saturated fatty acids and the protective effect of
dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids on atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease are questioned.»
To add a little fuel to the fire, I'd also point out that
dietary carbohydrate intake has been shown to be
more strongly correlated with circulating
saturated fatty acids than is
dietary saturated fat intake.
I sometimes hear people knock the
Dietary Guidelines, but they do provide a good foundation for building a healthy diet:
more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains; less sugar, salt, and (
saturated and trans)
fat.
Only after a half - century of low and no
fat food like substances had created
more obesity and did nothing to rein in heart disease control in the marketplace that the
saturated fat cholesterol myth began to erode, thanks to internet sites that publish real
dietary science like Health Impact News and their website CoconutOil.com.
Most vegetarian diets, even ones that include eggs and dairy products, often have less
saturated fat and cholesterol and
more complex carbohydrates,
dietary fiber, magnesium, folic acid, vitamin C and E and carotenoids than diets that include meat.
As is likely the case with
dietary cholesterol, the effect of
saturated fat - containing foods on heart disease risk may depend as much or
more on how the foods are prepared as on the amount of
saturated fat they contain.»