Forget what you’ve been told about dietary fats and heart disease

Bangor Daily News ^ | 6-26-2014 | Michael Noonan

[Citizen Zed]

The American people have been given a lot of bad information about the link between saturated fat, cholesterol, and heart disease. This misinformation is slowly being corrected, and more research is being done in the area, but most medical organizations still recommend low-fat diets as “heart healthy.”

We consume a lot less fats, and as a result, a lot more carbohydrates. (An unintended side effect: This diet has been blamed for the large increase in type 2 diabetes in our society over the last few decades.)

I predict that in 10 years the medical profession will make yet another dietary U-turn, and finally acknowledge that dietary fats actually have little to do with heart disease, let alone weight loss. It has already happened with hydrogenated fats, which doctors used to recommend as heart healthy but are now acknowledged as a major contributor to heart disease.

[hattend]

Wonderful.

Now if I could only convince my wife to let me eat like you do.

[hattend]

How old are you?

I just want to know because I can’t imagine such a cardio improvement like that for me at almost 60.

[usconservative]

I’m 51.

[hattend]

wow...I’m impressed. Maybe there is help for me after all.

[Maudeen]

Alex who?

[usconservative]

I had to push myself hard to get here. Radically changed my diet too which helped a lot. I have neuropathy in both feet too, so I have to constantly look to see my feet are on the pedals.

You can do it.

[wku man]

Going on a hardcore low-carb diet is no different that quitting smoking. I quit smoking 20 years ago, and found myself using the same self discipline to change my eating habits as I did putting down the Camel Lights. If you can do one, you can do the other! Stick to it...you won't regret either.

And yeah, it feels good putting on those size 38 jeans that have been hanging in the closet for years!

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[wku man]

Damn right...I use a little affirmation I heard somewhere that "nothing tastes as good as thin feels". I'll never be thin, per se, but it feels great to be thinNER.

Are you drinking more water? I've increased my intake to about a gallon and a half per day, as well as hitting the gym four days a week. In addition to being thinner, my muscle tone is getting pretty good, and my wind is back...I do 50 minutes of running on the elliptical (bad knees keep me off the treadmill), followed by some weights. Feels great! I, too, sleep a lot better, and there are other, uh, shall I say, "social" benefits that my gal seems pretty pleased with as well.

Continued good luck with the new way of life, FRiend.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[wku man]

Where did you find my college yearbook?!?

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[IamConservative]

DE will kill bed bugs too. Actually any insect or critter with an exoskeleton. Gets in between the skeletal plates and grinds them up.

If anyone has bedbugs and wants the scoop on how to get rid of them in confidence Freepmail me. I got the demon bastards from a Marriott in Cincinnati and beat them with no chemicals.

[wku man]

"First off, "Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho"! is going to be the tagline on your headstone if you keep eating that early death food."

It was going to be on my headstone within a year or two had I not gone on this diet and gotten my A1C and BP under control, smarta**. Keep spouting off the conventional wisdom all you want, but I'm living proof that the CW is crap.

"Second, why do you associate people who eat differently from you with being " CommieLib, hipster jack wagons"?, as you put it. When did what people eat become political? Pretty ignorant, if you ask me."

Because it is political. The anti-meat, anti-ranching, anti-dairy, anti-hunting constituency is, and always has been, behind the vegetarian/vegan conventional wisdom. You can read all the peer-reviewed studies you want -- and "peer reviewed" means nothing but "preaching to the choir" -- but seeing is believing. What I see is a lot of CommieLib, hipster jack wagons here in Boise -- and we have a LOT of them -- that are sicker and less healthy than I was even before I lost the weight! Oh yeah, and the CommieLib, hipster, vegan jack wagons I know are all supporters of the Obammunist...go figure. Veganism is unhealthy, mentally and physically. Period.

But that's okay, go ahead and believe what the Leftist agenda-pushers want you to believe. I prefer to think for myself, and get results for myself. Think I'll go to the gym now.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[wku man]

Maybe so, but the only thing that's worked for me, at least since I turned 40, is the low carb, high protein diet. Granted, I'm eating probably half the calories I was before going on the diet, because I'm eating a lot more veggies and no starches to speak of. Now that I'm within 10 pounds of my goal, I'm bringing some carbs back into my diet, and cutting out the eggs for my cholesterol level's sake, but low carb, high protein has gotten me here.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[wku man]

Tell her to give you a month, and if you're not down 20 pounds, you'll go back on whatever diet she has you on now. She won't believe how you look after a month.

For five months, I ate a ham and cheese omlette with hot salsa for breakfast every morning, had an Atkins shake for lunch, then a salad with some kind of meat for dinner. I snack throughout the day on carrots, celery, green peppers, radishes, cukes, string cheese and pork rinds, with one Atkins bar a day for morale's sake. Nuts are also good for snacks. The key is if you feel yourself getting hungry, don't try to hold out 'til dinnertime...grab a good, low-carb snack. Otherwise, you may find yourself going to the store for a bag of chips and a Coke.

I've cut out the eggs now to get my cholesterol back down, and eat oatmeal and a couple slices of ham for breakfast. I also drink a lot more water now than I used to, and hit the gym four days a week. I feel better than I have in probably 15 years. Tell your wife that, and she may want to join you.

Good luck and all the success in the world!

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[hattend]

Thanks!

[usconservative]

I drink about 96oz of water a day and I take alpha lipoic acid which is a super anti-oxidant. Its claim to fame is in helping moderate sugar/insulin levels, I have neuropathy in my feet so it helps with the burning/stinging/tingling sensations.

I've become somewhat an avid bicyclist at this point. I have terribly arthritic knees, funny how losing weight and bicycling dramatically alleviates those symptoms!

[southern rock]

The anti-meat, anti-ranching, anti-dairy, anti-hunting constituency is, and always has been, behind the vegetarian/vegan conventional wisdom.

Maybe because they know what meat and dairy ultimately does to the body. That doesn't make it political. I have been on a whole food, vegan diet for over 5 years, and am the better off for it. I don't put dietary cholesterol in my body. The body makes all the cholesterol it needs. You may have lost weight, but you need to look out for heart disease and cancer. If you want political, research how the beef industry literally harasses any doctor who promotes a plant based diet.

Veganism is not unhealthy at all. That is an uninformed opinion based on your preconceived notions and your own wishful thinking because you WANT to believe it.

Giving up animal product cured me of allergies and controls my weight. Nothing political about it. Do some research outside of your comfort zone.

[mlo]

"It's not just what you eat, it's how much you eat, and most importantly the number of calories in versus the number out."

But that's precisely what the current mainstream advice has been for years, and it's obviously wrong. It is what you eat.

[mlo]

"Maybe because they know what meat and dairy ultimately does to the body."

Dairy perhaps, since most people are not adapted to process dairy as adults, but you body is designed to digest meat.

[wku man]

Whatever. My opinion is based on what I've seen, heard and read over the years. But you keep on believing whatever they tell you to believe. I understand it's reassuring to some people to not have to think for themselves.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“It is what you eat.”

And how much you eat.