Posted on 03/23/2010 5:30:17 AM PDT by decimon
Replacing saturated fats with healthier options can cut the risk of heart disease by a fifth, a US study says.
The Harvard Medical School reports adds weight to the growing evidence about polyunsaturated fats, found in some fish and vegetable oils.
The team analysed the findings from eight previous studies, covering more than 13,000 people, in their research.
Experts said cutting down on saturated fats, found in butter and meat, was just one part of a healthy diet.
It is recommended that adults get no more than 11% of their energy from saturated fats.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Fat Tuesday ping.
I buy it by the 2-liter jug at Costco. It and garlic go into almost everything I cook.
A lot of heart disease can also be traced to genetics.
I have a relative who has always been physically active and has always had a very low fat diet.
He has heart disease as did every male member in his family.
Sometimes, no matter what you do, you get heart disease. But that doesn’t change the fact that healthy eating and an active lifestyle greatly reduce your chances of dying from heart disease. I know that from personal experience. Heart disease was prominent on both sides of my famiy — my father died from a heart attack and my mother had all the risk factors. But I was foolish enough to think I was invincible...that I could have a sedentary lifestyle and eat all kinds of junk including trans and saturated fats. January 7, 2008, I was proven wrong.
Olive oil is great, and I use it, but the study only evaluated the benefits of polyunsaturated oils. Olive oil is monounsaturated.
Worked for Popeye.
Worked for Popeye.
He seen his duty and he done it.
After examining the evidence and seeing what I think works best for me, the only thing I now take steadily is 3mg of fish oil per day. Its my basic supplementation. I'd probably be taking Vitamin D as well, 'cept I have some kidney stone issues.
Better yet would be to get these from the diet and sunshine, but that would be in a perfect world..
“Experts said..”
Yeah.
If one is blessed with a long enough life they tend to see the same nonsense pop up after a few decades, but under a new name. I was looking through one of those bound-book type historical compilations of our local newspaper front pages for the last 150 years or whatever. They were describing what was then (early 1970s) “the drinking mans diet”, it was identical in make up to the latest fad just a few years ago, whatever that was called. In the earlier iteration doctors wondered about kidney damage as a result of faddish diet.
One of the imponderables is why there are so much fraud and waste and duplication of effort in stuff that was figured out long ago. Get a USDA handbook #8, I think it is. Like many things, it might be better to get one published before about 1950 or so. Taxpayers funded this kind of stuff for a hundred years now at least.
Dietary fads are nothing new, and they weren’t a good idea then either. Vintage cookooks are excellent too - no lectures on global warming or the latest cause celebre, just good food!
thanks decimon
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