Posted on 06/23/2021 12:52:36 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A typical Western high-fat diet can increase the risk of painful disorders common in people with conditions such as diabetes or obesity, according to a groundbreaking paper…
Moreover, changes in diet may significantly reduce or even reverse pain from conditions causing either inflammatory pain -- such as arthritis, trauma or surgery -- or neuropathic pain, such as diabetes. The novel finding could help treat chronic-pain patients by simply altering diet or developing drugs that block release of certain fatty acids in the body.
In the new paper, Dr. Boyd and his colleagues used multiple methods in both mice and humans to study the role of polyunsaturated fatty acids in pain conditions. They found that typical Western diets high in omega-6 polyunsaturated fats served as a significant risk factor for both inflammatory and neuropathic pain.
Omega-6 fats, mainly found in foods with vegetable oils, have their benefits. But Western diets associated with obesity are characterized by much-higher levels of those acids in foods from corn chips to onion rings, than healthy omega-3 fats, which are found in fish and sources like flaxseed and walnuts.
Generally, unhealthy foods high in omega-6 fats include processed snacks, fast foods, cakes, and fatty and cured meats, among others.
Reversal of this diet, especially by lowering omega-6 and increasing omega-3 lipids, greatly reduced these pain conditions, the researchers found. Also, the authors demonstrated that skin levels of omega-6 lipids in patients with Type 2 diabetic neuropathic pain were strongly associated with reported pain levels and the need for taking analgesic drugs.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
How to Optimize Your Omega-6 to Omega-3 Ratio:
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/optimize-omega-6-omega-3-ratio
what kind of fat?
6 bad
3 good
polyunsaturated bad
trans bad
Yet years ago they were demonizing saturated fat and telling people to use PUFA.
Wo Fat caused some problems too but that was Asian oriented.
Omega-3 is a polyunsaturated fat.
I’m on a high fat diet but very low carb. I pay no attention to the kind of fat I eat. My chronic pain has disappeared. I’m not the only one with these results.
Me too, Varda, and I lost 140 lbs in 2 years 10 months.
Me too! I seek out saturated fats. Cheese! Meat! Bratwurst! Eggs!
Avoid chips, breads, sugars and wheat.
Working fine.
Ok, so no more lard sandwiches?
What about paying attention to the types of foods you eat? If you’ve cut out processed foods and are basically eating ‘clean’ then you’ve already eliminated the items the article said to avoid.
How about the sugar and flour in highly processed foods that causes much of the obesity and 2 diabetes problems. The processed food industry has great power in the USA.
More anti-meat propaganda.
They can have my sausage when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I’m SMH on this one. Well established for years. Wrote about this in the first draft of my book and it wasn’t ground breaking at all: Others had already made this connection.
The problem is “what to do about it” because simple ‘diets’ are ineffective across the board and is the reason why I refer to ‘diet’ as a “4-letter word/obscenity.”
And supplements are far from panacea.
I prefer the Southern high fat diet. Pass the fried chicken, please.
Western food bad, eastern food good.
yup
“4 out of 5 doctors recommend camel cigarettes”
they even had docs recommending ciggies for expecting moms
eat eggs
dont eat eggs
eat eggs again
Sounds like “Ma” Chalmers’ project soybean . . .?
Yep!
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