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Fat is your friend. Check out this great recent interview – video above– on Sky News with Dr. Aseem Malhotra.
Here’s the new article they mention that prompted the interview:
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The one recommended by Keys himself. Focused on legumes, whole grains and vegetables, low in saturated fat, fish once a week and meat once a month. A low carb paradigm shift perpahs?
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eat...
If I could give you 100 thumbs up, I would.
There is no such thing as a Mediterranean diet. Can't
folks get that through their heads?
LCHF can be eaten within any culture.
Keys had an other idea of the diet, as I'm sure you know.
IMO ketogenic diets are better than SAD and have much higher compliance than a print ikon or ornish or mc Douglas approach
Um, what?
"What’s interesting is that the total fat consumption in the high fat Mediterranean diet was 41%. Now the current dietary guidelines tell us we shouldn’t see more than 30%."
That's what Malhotra considers to be high fat. A diet "supplemented with olive oil or nuts". That's not really support for butter, is it?
http://www.biznews.com/low-carb-healthy-fat-science/2015/02/22/dr-ase...
By the way, he is preffering this over a "traditional Mediterranean diet that was low fat and was higher in refined starches". Golly gosh, I never heard that a traditional mediterranean diet was supposed to be high in refined starches. In fact, olive oil and nuts substitute totally normal parts of the miditerranean diet concept. Refined starches do not. The high fat mediteranaen diet that he is talking about is the normal one.
Please check the graphic here:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eat...
The Mediterranean diet emphasizes:
* Eating primarily plant-based foods, such as fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes and nuts
* Replacing butter with healthy fats, such as olive oil
* Using herbs and spices instead of salt to flavor foods
* Limiting red meat to no more than a few times a month
* Eating fish and poultry at least twice a week
* Drinking red wine in moderation (optional)
This is a mostly plant based diet that goes against the LCHF in many ways.
As you probably know there is no unambiguous definition of a Mediterranean diet and recent research indicates that increased intake of monounsaturated fats can be good for your heart health and saturated fats are neutral to health.
Therefore LCHF believers love good monounsaturated and saturated fats :-)
What is called the high fat medi diet is really the standard medi diet while the low fat version is some kind of thing that noone has ever suggested (increased refined starches), while still consisting of more fat than the normal recommendations. However, you can see yourself that the difference in composition of the diets were small and thus not alot could be learned from this study.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1200303
* Eating primarily plant-based foods, such as fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes and nuts (I eat: vegetables, some nuts, berries every once in a while; nothing else)
* Replacing butter with healthy fats, such as olive oil (I eat: as much animal fat as I can per day; I don't mind olive oil, but don't think it's a magic elixir; I avoid other vegetable fats)
* Using herbs and spices instead of salt to flavor foods (I eat: salt and herbs and spices; there's nothing wrong with salt)
* Limiting red meat to no more than a few times a month (if pork is red meat, I eat "red meat" as much as possible)
* Eating fish and poultry at least twice a week (I don't like either of these much, but do eat fish 1-2 times per week and probably the same for poultry; I avoid white mean from chicken though, and prefer duck)
* Drinking red wine in moderation (optional) (I drink some red wine every once in a while)
People who write these recommendations I find to be scientifically unsound. For instance, pork fat is over half monounsaturated fat of the same type in olive oil. Pork fat has more saturated fat than olive oil, but I find it difficult to believe the small difference between the two is the reason for heart disease.
By continually saying this: "Can't let the perfect be the enemy of the very good,"
you end up endorsing some pretty lousy stuff.
Surely there's much better things out there to tout.
"Mediterranean" diet. There is no such thing.
Why tell people to eat it? That is a waste of
time and energy.