Fat is sooo good and science can't do a dang thing about it

Popular Science ^ | 01/19/2018 | By Rachel Feltman

[Red Badger]

Every January, fat's in the crosshairs of health columnists, fitness magazines, and desperate Americans. This year, PopSci looks at the macronutrient beyond its most negative associations. What

[Liz]

I prefer to get my fats in desserts.

CHOCOLATE ORANGE CHEESECAKE

Ingredients 1 3/4 cups Ghirardelli 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate Baking Chips 6 ounces shortbread cookies, crushed 1/4 cup butter, melted 16 ounces cream cheese (for filling) 1 3/4 cups sugar (for filling) 1/3 cup orange juice concentrate (for filling) 3 large eggs (for filling) 1 1/ 2 cups sour cream (for topping) 6 tablespoons sugar (for topping) 2 tablespoons orange juice concentrate (for topping)

Crust: Preheat oven to 325°F. Combine cookies and butter with a fork. Press into bottom of a 9-inch spring form pan and slightly up the sides. Bake 15 minutes. Cool.

Filling: Melt 1 ½ cups chocolate chips at 30-second intervals, stirring after every 30 seconds until melted. Cool.Beat cream cheese and 1-3/4 cups sugar until smooth. Add 1-1/2 cups chocolate chips, 1/3 cup orange juice, and eggs, one at a time. Pour into crust, and bake 50 minutes. Cool 10 minutes.

Topping: Mix sour cream, 6 tablespoons sugar and 2 tablespoons orange juice concentrate together. Spread over cake. Drizzle remaining 1/4 cup melted chocolate chips over. Bake 5 minutes. Turn off heat, and cool in the oven with the door slightly open for 30 minutes.

Place in refrigerator overnight before serving.

[jonrick46]

This fat scare is a scam. All the sins of fat are caused by excessive sugar intake. People who avoid fats will use sugar enhanced foods to make up for the bland taste of low-fat diet. Sugar spikes cause spikes in insulin release. These spikes teach the immune system to attack insulin which causes insulin resistance and that is definition of diabetes.

With the inability of the body to neutralize sugar through insulin, sugar hangs in the blood stream. Those little sugar molecules cause cell damage to all parts of the body, including the blood vessels feeding the muscles of the heart with the condition known as leading to a condition known as diabetic cardiomyopathy. Hence, heart disease not caused by fats.

[jonrick46]

Your low-fat diet may induce you to eat more carbs; especially carbs enhanced with sugar.

[mylife]

Meat without fat fails as well.

We need protein and fat and gravy, and eggs, and browned taters and toast and coffee! (and lashings of hot sauce)

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Fat...

...is FLAVOR.

[mylife]

I don’t have a low fat diet, I say fry it in pork lard!

[jonrick46]

The sugar in your Chocolate Orange Cheesecake—1 3/4 cups sugar (for filling), 1/3 cup orange juice concentrate (for filling), 6 tablespoons sugar (for topping) and 2 tablespoons orange juice concentrate (for topping)—will cause an insulin spike which is worse than the fats used to make it.

[jonrick46]

Correction: A low-fat diet may induce one to eat more carbs; especially carbs enhanced with sugar.

[jonrick46]

You described my breakfast. My dog was at my feet whimpering. He knows a perfect breakfast. I let him lick the plate.

[Liz]

Who cares (licking the spoon clean-——having a second slice).

[mylife]

I’d put a couple fried eggs on my dogs kibble, I’ll lick my own plate :)

[greeneyes]

OK, that expert on fat is spouting some BS. I have spent the last several years reading actual studies-not the stuff put forth by the media.

The guidelines that were taught in Home Economics in the 60s would be better than the USDA pyramid. The McGovern hearings that started us down this deluded path, even admitted that they didn’t really know, but it was too important to wait on studies. Government idiot or did the grain lobby out do the meat lobby?

The scientific guy that got this ball rolling simply tossed out of his study the countries that didn’t support his thesis. He also was not performing a scientific study. It was more of a survey of typical diets for a country.

1. Fat is good for you. You can not make the healthy HDL that helps clean out the so called bad LDL without it. Before this craziness, an LDL of 130 was not considered bad.

2. In the book, Vitamin k2 and the Calcium paradox, I found that the clogging of blood vessels is very much related to Calcium. Also osteoporosis is. In order for the body to put the Calcium into your bones, and properly use it, you need K2-not found in plants!

3. K2 is a fat soluable vitamin that we can’t make in our bodies. It is found in natto-fermented stuff that smells like old socks and is slimy-not my pick-Japanese dish.

It is found in the fat of grass fed cows, and eggs yolks of free range chickens. Butter is a healthy fat. Cheese and especially gouda, and whole milk are healthy. Also found in meat from grass fed cows. The key is - grass fed dairy with fat still in it. If you can get such milk with cream on top-even better.

4. Skim milk is not a good choice-no fat-acts just like sugar with respect to insulin. Never buy less than 1% milk.

5. Excess carbohydrates is a problem-especially sugar and high fructose corn sugar. That’s why we have had a big increase in non fatty liver disease (cirrhosis). Even kids are getting it now. It is processed the same way as alcohol-hence the liver impact.

6. Your liver is what actually determines your cholesterol. Eat less to bring it down, and your liver produces more.

7. K2 has basically disappeared from our food. Corn fed feed lot cows don’t make it - they need grass. Ditto caged chickens feed grains, and no natural stuff.

8. Healthy fats: Olive Oil, Butter, Nuts-especially almonds for your heart. Some cheese and whole milk. Reduce your carbs. Carbs/fat is a bad combo. The diabetic diet is now advising only 60g of carbs per day, plus all the greens etc. you can eat.

So. I changed my diet. Increased my protein meat, chicken, fish, whole milk and cheese. I eat a serving of nuts per day-more almonds than the others. I eat a tablespoon of almond butter or peanut butter per day-that is my one sweet treat. I cut out all other sugar.

Drink tea and lemonade plain with no sweetener. I eat mostly low carb veggies. I lost a few lbs. But within a month by cholesterol was normal, triglycerides normal, and my HDL had increased dramatically.

Store bought bread is not really healthy for many reasons. Wheat for example, should be soaked overnight, and then made into sour dough bread or sprouted, dried, and then made into bread. It has an acid that interferes with digestion and nutrients, unless this is done.

Whole foods. Avoid the crackers, chips etc. that are full of crap. My one treat is Organic Tostidos-only 3 ingredients-used sparingly when I’m in a hurry. For healthier chips-steam potato or sweet potato. Peel and slice paper thin with mandolin. Fry in Ghee (clarified butter) drain and add sea salt.

Buy an old cookbook from the 60s or 70s with a good nutrition table. Better Homes and Gardens had one.

Thank you for getting me on my soap box. LOL

[Trillian]

I’m finally sitting down to eat something today.
Italian bread covered in Bolognese sauce I made last night and baked with mozzarella on top.

[greeneyes]

Amen. You speak the truth.

[Liz]

Speaking of pork fat-—recipes at sources.

1. Maple Bacon Cupcakes | Source: Ashlee Marie
2. Bacon S’mores | Source: The Classy Chapter
3. Bacon Maple Cheesecake | Source: Not Quite Nigella
4. Banana Bacon Cinnamon Roll Roses | Source: Snappy Gourmet
5. Bacon-Wrapped Dates | Source: Menu of Musings
6. Bacon Asparagus Breakfast Pizza | Source: Hot Eats and Cool Reads
7. Gluten-Free Maple Bacon Mini Donuts | Source: Fearless Dining
8. Candied Bacon Cinnamon Roll Burger | Source: Grillocracy
9. Candied Bacon (on Chocolate Ice Cream) | Source: Ashlee Marie
10. Bacon Grilled Cheese Braid | Source: The Gracious Wife
11. Bacon Caramel Popcorn | Source: Kicking It With Kelly
12. Crispy Bacon Grilled Cheese Rollups | Source: Spend With Pennies
13. Twix Bacon Cookies | Source: Gator Mommy Reviews
14. Salted Caramel and Candied Bacon Ice Cream | Source: Spoon Fork Bacon
15. Bacon Banana Cupcakes With Peanut Butter Frosting and

AND

Woven Bacon Taco Shells
Bacon-Wrapped Sushi
Apple Pie Bacon Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Maple Bacon Cookie Dough Truffles
Bacon Brownies

[greeneyes]

If the pigs are raised right, LARD is healthy. For Christmas I gave everyone of my adult kids and grandkids a cookbook - Lard - Granny’s secret ingredient.

[9422WMR]

Spam spam spam spam, need I go on?

[mylife]

Here is the science of the trail, Protein (Beef jerky) lots of it, it burns slow, raisins and some chocolate for quick energy, salted nuts (more protein)

Lots of water

Try doing a 10 mi mountain hike on Kit Kats and OJ

And put down the cigarettes, that is what ended my hiking, all my other vitals are fine.

Roll on buddies

[mylife]

Remember Milk bottles with cream seperaters?

Remember the phrase “the cream rises to the top”?

When did we start eating sugar frosted flakes doused in 1% milk?

[mylife]

I remember churning butter as a child,

Soo good!