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EventsWSJ: “The dubious science behind the anti-fat crusade”
May 6 2014 by Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD![Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD]()
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The old fear of dietary fat is melting away. Here’s yet another step in the paradigm shift. The world’s #1 business paper The Wall Street Journal publishes an article that questions decades of warnings against butter. Or as they put it “The dubious science behind the anti-fat crusade”:
The Wall Street Journal: The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease
As if this weren’t enough, the article is the most-read article of all in the paper:
Time to sell the shares in margarine manufacturer Unilever?
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Just found a great recipe for tangine chicken north African style with grapes and apricots , honey and olive oil
I am getting my sweets with fiber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yXLjO2VvVM
http://www.cosmopolitan.com.au/health-lifestyle/healthy-eating/2014/2...
Since Crisco started spreading its poison already in 1910, wasn't it the cause of heart disease itself ?: And Becel today ? Omega 6 is heavy implicated in all cardiovascular lesions!
I did not know that Crisco also lifted AHA to a powerhouse with its profits of vegetable oil sale, to make them bigger again ?.
Great that butter is better again allover. Better late than never.
http://www.sugaraholics.com
http://highfatlowcarbrecipes.wordpress.com/
Fat = fat
Eat fat get fat! I hate how everybody blames foods like pasta rice corn and potatoes for making them fat while ignoring all the fat oils and grease that come along with it! Bacon and butter health foods LMAO!!!!
You haven't bothered to do the reading that I asked you to. You haven't looked at any of the science involved. You haven't read the article that Dr Eenfeldt has linked to.
You are not contributing in any way to the discussion on this board - you are clearly trolling and its rude and unwelcome.
But you have obviously not read Eenfeldts "The food revolution".
There are actually a few excellent links on top of this very page. Links to Gary Taubes, Robert Lustig, Mary Vernon etc., under "video". Interesting interviews.
p.s.
it is my 5th week with no dietary intake of carbohydrates at all (part of an experiment) - I feel just great.
If you are truly interested, please read the history !
"1976 Nathan Pritikin opens his first “low fat” Longevity Center. One attendee is pudgy U.S. Senator George McGovern (Democrat, SD). Although he dropped out of the Pritikin program, Senator McGovern was convinced that fat made us fat and was responsible for "killer diseases" like cancer and heart disease. Nathan Pritikin committed suicide years later when his low fat diet failed to protect him from leukemia."
Here link to the whole history, starting at 1825 when diabetes rates were lower than 1 in 300.
http://www.dietheartpublishing.com/diet-heart-timeline
Makes sense.
Dear LCHFers, please do not feed a close-minded, fanatical troll. Let her/him be.
Don't triglycerides have glycerol, from which the liver can make glucose? Perhaps that's all the dietary carbs we need. Perhaps that establishes the ideal fat to carb ratio. Hibernating bears would seem to think so.
(as you know, our body (liver, kidneys cortex) can make glucose from glycerol as well as from so called glycogenic amino acids, fatty acids, lactate, pyruvate. Most preferred glycogenic molecules are: alanine, glutamine, lactate and glycerol)
Acta Physiol (Oxf). 2014 Apr 28. doi: 10.1111/apha.12308. [Epub ahead of print]
Fatty acids and cardiac disease: Fuel carrying a message.
van Bilsen M1, Planavila A.
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From the viewpoint of the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden, there has been a continuous interest in the detrimental effects of the Western-type high-fat diet for more than half a century. More recently, this general view has been subject to change as epidemiological studies showed that replacing fat by carbohydrate may even be worse and that various polyunsaturated fatty acids (FA) have beneficial rather than detrimental effects on CVD outcome. At the same time advances in lipid biology have provided insight into the mechanisms by which the different lipid components of the Western diet affect the cardiovascular system. In fact, this still is a rapidly growing field of research and in recent years novel FA derivatives and FA receptors have been discovered. This includes fish-oil derived FA-derivatives with anti-inflammatory properties, the so-called resolvins, and various G-protein coupled receptors that recognize FA as ligands. In the present review we will extensively discuss the role of FA and their metabolites on cardiac disease, with special emphasis on the role of the different saturated and polyunsaturated FA and their respective metabolites in cellular signal transduction and the possible implications for the development of cardiac hypertrophy and cardiac failure This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Is there any indication that a greater load to produce glucose in the liver from these pre-cursors puts stress on the liver? I have long wondered whether eating some carb would alleviate workload for the liver to sustain adequate blood sugar. My general approach has been to require the carb-containing foods i eat to be very nutrient dense, so i can have small portions.
I am practicing very low carbohydrate (mostly no more that 8% energy) lifestyle for very long time (close to 20 years now) so I am in pretty good shape in and out for longtime now. My current no dietary carbohydrate intake self-experiment is to monitor my organs function (liver, kidneys et cetera) as well as microbiome analysis. I did this around 10 years ago and would like to make comparison. I am a part of a group of dedicated LCHF people who provide council to those who decide to start LCHF for one reason or another. It is my experience that well designed and executed LCHF always leads to weight loss and marked improvement in health. Personally , and I said this on dietdoctor number of times, weight loss on LCHF is a secondary issue - it is for the other, numerous benefits to our biochemistry and physiology, which LCHF lifestyle is so rewarding.
I follow your reasoning on 'working liver' scenario, however it is my understanding that, providing organs (tissues, cells) receive optimal energy and macro, micro-nutrients for their function and regeneration, they just (judging by biomarkers) work with no problems. When human body is keto-adapted it does not need much glucose (workload-wise it is probably more "difficult" for your liver to process half a bottle of wine than it is to make 2 mole of glucose). Do our kidneys "struggle" when we drink 2 liters of water/day versus 2 glasses?.
I certain do not see any trouble in the function of my liver, or any other organs for that matter.
Life game is an energy game. All the way from microbes up to elephants the game of life is to get energy from the surroundings in the most efficient way and utilized it in the most efficient way. It my humble understanding the best energy source for humans are fatty acids.
Rev Neurol (Paris). 2014 May 1. pii: S0035-3787(14)00811-X. doi: 10.1016/j.neurol.2014.03.005. [Epub ahead of print]
Perspectives of drug-based neuroprotection targeting mitochondria.
Procaccio V1, Bris C1, Chao de la Barca JM1, Oca F1, Chevrollier A1, Amati-Bonneau P1, Bonneau D1, Reynier P2.
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Mitochondrial dysfunction has been reported in most neurodegenerative diseases. These anomalies include bioenergetic defect, respiratory chain-induced oxidative stress, defects of mitochondrial dynamics, increase sensitivity to apoptosis, and accumulation of damaged mitochondria with instable mitochondrial DNA. Significant progress has been made in our understanding of the pathophysiology of inherited mitochondrial disorders but most have no effective therapies. The development of new metabolic treatments will be useful not only for rare mitochondrial disorders but also for the wide spectrum of common age-related neurodegenerative diseases shown to be associated with mitochondrial dysfunction. A better understanding of the mitochondrial regulating pathways raised several promising perspectives of neuroprotection. This review focuses on the pharmacological approaches to modulate mitochondrial biogenesis, the removal of damaged mitochondria through mitophagy, scavenging free radicals and also dietary measures such as ketogenic diet.
Have you seen this lecture on mitochondria and energy metabolism. The perspective originates from the study of diseases due to mitochondrial genes. The lecturer points out nucleus DNA is structural and regulatory but mitochondrial DNA drives energy metabolism, so the genetics-evolution paradigm should be rethought in terms of this bifurcation. The dynamics of mitochondrial DNA, of course, are more complicated because there are multiple copies of mitochondria in cells, so there is a population dynamic.
Given most diseases, it seems, involve energy deficit in important cells due to mitochondrial defect or wear, strategies for enhancing mitochondria (especially keto) seem all the more important.
One interesting fact is that the ovary produces hundreds of eggs every normal cycle and there is some selection process to weed out all but the eggs with the strongest mitochondria (least damaged gene set). Given the pattern we see with women having trouble conceiving until they go low-carb, a high-carb diet may mess up that process, so that the eggs selected lack viable mitochondrial DNA for sufficient energy metabolism. Who knows what the epigenetic effects might be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=xDDFV7Sovvs&...
Published on Apr 4, 2014
A Mitochondrial Etiology of Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases, Cancer and Aging
Air date: Wednesday, April 02, 2014, 3:00:00 PM
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20578534
I don't know enough to read this type of article but I can see it makes fat evil. Any comments???
Thanks
so called high fat meal described in this paper consisted of 50.1 g of fat and 43.8 g of carbohydrates !! - for our physiology - it is the worst mix possible. It is not LCHF meal. In addition only 14g of that fat was saturated, what was the rest - corn oil?
Absolute 100% rubbish. However, unfortunately, these kind of "research" are used to "prove" that fat is bad for us. Whoever cites such work does not have a slightest clue about human energy metabolism.
I don't have access to the full study.
What type of fat was eaten? Trans fats? Highly processed vegetable oil like canola, corn, cottonseed, sunflower, safflower or soy?
How was the meal cooked? Studies show food (including vegetables) cooked at higher temperature produce high levels of advanced glycation endproducts and other compounds that reduce endothelial flexibility. Foods fried in oil cook hotter, so the correlation with more fat may be due to another factor.
It is fairly easy to game experiments to achieve a desired outcome by varying cooking method and type of fat. For example, some mouse studies where mice did badly on "high fat" turned out to be giving the mice half their calories as trans fat. That would be like putting a person on a vegetarian diet with 50% of calories from beet-sugar and then saying vegetables cause diabetes.
Personally, I have blood pressure about 95/65 with over 70% of my calories as fat. Most people I know who have gone LCHF report lower blood pressure.
So I know for certain that carbs = fat and the good fat = weight loss.
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140503183904-23027997-to...
Let the old "whole grains in, saturated fat out" crusader live with that, it won't harm us a bit.
http://www.sott.net/article/280051-The-AHAs-absurd-and-unethical-satu...