Western high-fat diet can cause chronic pain, according to new study

Science Daily / University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio / Nature Metabolism ^ | June 23 2021 | Jacob T. Boyd, Peter M. LoCoco, Ashley R. Furr, Michelle R. Bendele, Meilinn Tram, et al.

[ConservativeMind]

I wouldn’t agree with the authors that this is “groundbreaking,” but identification of the high-carb, high-fat approach using primarily pro-inflammatory Omega-6 fatty acids as embedding in the skin seems new. It is good they also found pain issues resolved by reduction of Omega-6 and the addition of Omega-3 fatty acids.

[ConservativeMind]

How to Optimize Your Omega-6 to Omega-3 Ratio:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/optimize-omega-6-omega-3-ratio

[joshua c]

what kind of fat?

6 bad
3 good

polyunsaturated bad
trans bad

[Shadow44]

Yet years ago they were demonizing saturated fat and telling people to use PUFA.

[wally_bert]

Wo Fat caused some problems too but that was Asian oriented.

[ConservativeMind]

Omega-3 is a polyunsaturated fat.

[Varda]

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.

[jacquej]

Me too, Varda, and I lost 140 lbs in 2 years 10 months.

[Mr Rogers]

Me too! I seek out saturated fats. Cheese! Meat! Bratwurst! Eggs!

Avoid chips, breads, sugars and wheat.

Working fine.

[SkyDancer]

Ok, so no more lard sandwiches?

[Spirit of Liberty]

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.

[Freee-dame]

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.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

More anti-meat propaganda.

[Pollard]

cured meats

They can have my sausage when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.

[logi_cal869]

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.

[married21]

I prefer the Southern high fat diet. Pass the fried chicken, please.

[Parmy]

When there is nothing else to do, recycle, recycle, recycle. This has been hashed out before.

Western food bad, eastern food good.

[Secret Agent Man]

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

[Macoozie]

Sounds like “Ma” Chalmers’ project soybean . . .?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep!