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by Heidi Stevenson
Article Concept by Andrej Oljaca
GreenMedInfo.com
We keep hearing about different types of cholesterol. It’s all nonsense. There’s only one cholesterol molecule, so there’s only one type of cholesterol. What started this nonsense of types of cholesterol?
Just how many types of cholesterol are there? The more we’re indoctrinated with the cholesterol-as-poison […]
Can we jettison misguided and dangerous recommendations on fat and heart disease – please? It’s not often that the mainstream media notices an academic meta-analysis, or study of studies – particularly if it goes against the tide of prevailing dietary advice. But that’s what happened with a recent Australian study, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The BMJ paper was an update of a previous meta-analysis by the same investigators, looking at the consequences for cardiovascular health of replacing dietary saturated fats (i.e. butter) with polyunsaturated, omega-6 fatty acids (PUFAs). This time around, the group reassessed the results of the Sydney Diet Heart Study (SDHS), a randomized, controlled trial involving 458 patients that compared the rates of cardiovascular disease among subjects who increased the amount of omega-6 PUFAs – specifically, linoleic acid from safflower oil – in their diet with patients who continued their normal diet. As well as reanalyzing the results, the investigators incorporated them into their previous meta-analysis. The SDHS results were clear: replacing dietary saturated fats with omega-6 PUFAs increased all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and mortality from coronary heart disease.
By Dr. Mercola
You’re probably aware that in order to absorb all of the extremely healthy fat-soluble nutrients in your food, compounds like lutein, beta-carotene and vitamin E, for instance, you’ve got to eat them with some fat.So perhaps you always add olive oil to your salads or eat your veggies with butter to absorb all […]
Why our food is making us fat
We are, on average, 3st heavier than we were in the 60s. And not because we’re eating more or exercising less – we just unwittingly became sugar addicts
by Jacques Peretti
guardian.co.uk
Up a rickety staircase at the Newarke Houses Museum in Leicester, England hangs a portrait of Britain’s first obese man, […]
Diet myths abound in the health industry, but one of the biggest myths of all is the idea that a calorie is a calorie, no matter where you get it from, or what the chemical or nutritional makeup of it is.
by Dr. Mercola
Even though the low-fat craze has ended and more people are embracing healthy fats in their diet, there’s still a sizable group that has not heard the news yet …
Eating fat will not make you fat as quickly as eating carbs will.
This, in a nutshell, is what you need to recognize if […]
Some things to keep in mind during Heart Awareness Month
by Paula Owens
Ahwatukee Foothills News
Excerpts:
Saturated fat is actually healthy for your heart. A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition revealed that those who regularly eat the highest amounts of saturated fats have the least amount of plaque buildup in their arteries, and had a […]
by Dr. Mercola
A new study from the Netherlands has aroused a great deal of interest, especially as it comes immediately in the wake of an ill-conceived Danish tax that unfairly targets saturated fats.
The study found that dietary intake of saturated fatty acids is associated with a modest increase in serum total cholesterol — […]
by Katie Kimball
Kitchen Stewardship
Since I’ve been making an effort to eat more fat and the right kind of fat, flying in the face of popular opinion, I haven’t gained a pound. My cholesterol is great, and my husband’s lipid levels also have not changed (except for his HDL – the good stuff – going up).
I’ve […]
By Dr. Mercola
CBS News, one of the most-watched news programs in the world, recently ran a report questioning whether animal fat is as bad as ‘conventional wisdom’ would have you believe.
The answer?
It most certainly is not.
The vilification of fats go back to the early 1950’s, when Dr. Ancel Keys published an influential paper comparing […]
