RCS said...
Researchers say that as long as fats are the good kind, and part of an otherwise healthy, vegetable-rich diet, there’s really no reason to curb their intake anymore.
www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2016/07/19/high-fat-is-healthy-if-its-part-of-a-mediterranean-diet-study-finds/#7f5e7f162197
Interesting. Sounds like they are about
to give up the anti-fat crusade as more and more evidence accumulates. Of course, for both heart and cancer, the Ornish types still have some evidence by way of clinical studies in their favor I suppose.
Let me add, in my study of 1 ( N1 ), that I have eaten a boatload of fat ever since I did some serious low carb 17 years ago. Now mind you, I was by no means always on anything like Atkins or even a less severe low carb regime. And when I was not, my weight always crept up. But I did always eat plenty of fat, plenty of so called good fats for sure, but also never shying away from the butter or rib eye steaks or sausage or bacon or eggs. And as long as I don't over do the carbs, my BP stays low, my TGLs stay lower than they used to be, I have no cardiac symptoms, and my calcium score turned out to be zero. So for whatever reason, it appears that a generpous amunt of all kinds of fat has not hurt my heart. Far as we know anyway.
"“The evidence that we reviewed from the past
fifty years or so showed that people who consume a Mediterranean diet with
no restriction on fat intake have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, and type two diabetes,” said study author Hanna E. Bloomfield, a researcher at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
She and her team defined a Mediterranean diet as containing no limit on fat, but having at least two of the seven following patterns: a high monounsaturated-to-saturated fat ratio; lots of fruit and vegetables; high intake of legumes; high grain and cereal intake; moderate red wine consumption; moderate dairy intake; low consumption of meat/meat products but high intake of fish..........................
So yet again, fat is off the hook, as we’ve been seeing more and more over the last decade. And carbs and sugars have become the likelier culprits.
“[W]hat we found in our study is that healthy diets can include a lot of fat, especially if it’s healthy fat, and the emphasis in the United States at least for the past thirty years has been it’s important to reduce fat, fat of all kind, fat’s the bad thing,” says Bloomfield. “It turns out that the obesity epidemic in this country is probably more due to our increased consumption of refined grains and added sugar and not so much from our fat consumption."
So, though they are keeping the red meat low, they are otherwise saying that high fat is fine, apparently. So I guess they would be OK with my occasional habit of a tablespoon of EV olive oil before some meals, or pouring it heavily onto salads? They might think I have too much butter and meat, but it was during the times I ate the most of it that my HDL went up while my TGLs went down. Again, my study of N1.