Not exact matches
The review focused
on fat and cholesterol as the
dietary causes of coronary heart disease and downplayed sugar consumption as also a risk factor.
Hormones are produced in a complex process, but depend
on beneficial
fats and cholesterol, so lack of these important
dietary factors can
cause hormone problems simply because the body doesn't have the building blocks to make them.
I actually published one of his articles
on this site nearly 10 years ago, in which he expounded
on the misguided
dietary advice to «eat less
fat and more carbohydrates,» stating that this advice just might be the
cause of the skyrocketing rates of obesity in America.
They were pushing high -
fat diets when we began to think that
dietary fat cause heart disease, and the nutrition and heart disease community came down
on them like a ton of bricks saying, «You guys are killing people.»
She has headed a number of studies
on the content and effects of trans fatty acids in America and Israel and has successfully challenged government assertions that
dietary animal
fat causes cancer and heart disease.
``... 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.
The clinical use of and clinical research
on LCDs have raised fundamental questions about insulin resistance and the regulation of cellular fuel utilization, as well as questions about whether
dietary carbohydrate is an essential nutrient, and whether
dietary fat causes heart disease.
More importantly, the focus
on dietary fat is more likely a distraction to more significant
causes of metabolic syndrome [30].
Such a consensus
on dietary fat and its role in heart disease — the most common
cause of death in most industrialized countries — took place last year with the results just published in the March 2011 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
In dogs, MCTs can
cause pancreatitis» so if your pooch has to be
on a low -
fat or special diet, work with your veterinarian to determine if coconut oil — or any other
dietary change — is a good idea.
The theory that
dietary fat causes obesity and heart disease, based
on a couple of terrible studies in the 1950s, became unchallenged orthodoxy and is only now fading slowly.