Fried food heart risk 'a myth'

The Telegraph ^ | January 25, 2012 | Stephen Adams

[PJ-Comix]

They say there is mounting research that it is the type of oil used, and whether or not it has been used before, that really matters.

The latest study, published in the British Medical Journal, found no association between the frequency of fried food consumption in Spain - where olive and sunflower oils are mostly used - and the incidence of serious heart disease.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I love chicken fried in WD-40, it tastes great and I have good memories about all the old lawnmowers I’ve fixed.

[southern rock]

When people do Atkins, HCG, or Paleo diets the weight comes right off.

Same result with the Engine 2 diet, or any diet which is whole-food, plant-based.

[chessplayer]

WOW! Another Flaming Liberal BS Myth BUSTED!!!

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Do you know that the claim that smoking cigarettes is unhealthy is just another flaming liberal BS myth? sarc/

[EEGator]

My food eats plants. Does that count?

[IrishPennant]

Moderation in all things, including moderation.

Hahahaha...That's good right there...I'm gonna lay that on the Pastor Sunday.

[ConfidentConservative]

yep! agree!

My Grandma is 98 years old. Loves hotdogs! Yes HOTDOGS, she would eat them exclusively given the chance.

She cooked fried foods too.

My other Grandma was 94 years old and was healthy until she broke her hip. She was another fried foods person. fried chicken, fried porkchops, hamburgers, etc.

Oh and... they were overweight as well.

[aruanan]

I certainly believe that your diet affects your health and that some aspects of the American diet must be bad -- we are getting pretty fat after all. But the competing claims against this or for that are pretty frustrating.

When people do Atkins, HCG, or Paleo diets the weight comes right off. It's pretty clear that the government food pyramid and its ridiculous overweighting of grains is the main culprit.

The main culprits are intake of more energy than you expend and reduced levels of energy expenditure during the ordinary activities of life compared to 50 and 100 years ago. If someone is losing fat mass on an Atkins or other diet, it's simply because energy intake is less than energy expenditure. If anyone gains fat mass, it's simply because energy intake is greater than energy expenditure. It's no more mysterious than this and that if you have a higher level of fat in a meal, you're more likely to stay satiated longer. If you're satiated longer, you experience the urge to eat (well, from hunger at least) less often.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

I don’t know about other areas of the US, but just about every cow in the south and in Texas has been fed cottonseed. There is nothing poison about it. Last year it was very expensive and fed a bit less, but it is high nutrition for cattle.

[ConfidentConservative]

That is so true, I have lost 80 pounds. AND I have kept it off.

ALL of it because of a low-carb diet.

[ConfidentConservative]

You are also right, The lower carb diet is mostly Meat and vegetables. High carb raises sugar levels in your system much faster and then drops more quickly which is when your body signals it is “hungry”.

By eating the foods that take a much longer time to turn to sugar the body doesn’t give the signal nearly as often as someone eating sugary, high carb foods.

You simply do not feel hungry.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Something can be toxic without killing you, and last time I checked, cows are not human.

Most seed oils are toxic to protect the seed from pest. Cotton gets an extra dosing from the additional pesticides applied by the grower.

If the raw oil is processed to remove the natural and added pesticides, the resulting fractured product often becomes toxic in other ways. Sometimes by changes in the structure from high heat, dehydrogenation or by the addition of catalyst, rehydrogenation, bleaching, coloring, perfuming, etc.

Cottonseed oil is one of the highest polyunsaturated oils, which are immune system suppressors.

Use at your own peril!

[aruanan]

By eating the foods that take a much longer time to turn to sugar the body doesn’t give the signal nearly as often as someone eating sugary, high carb foods.

You mean, eating carbohydrates that take longer to digest and be absorbed? There are no macronutrients besides carbohydrates (and the galactose in milk) that provide glucose (and some other minor amounts of sugars that will enter into the glycolytic pathway at some point). Neither protein nor fats can be converted into sugar, though some amino acids can be burned in the glycolytic pathway. And humans are incapable of synthesizing glucose.

[ConfidentConservative]

A portion of the protein you eat is converted into glucose.
But it is just a percentage, small compared to carbohydrates.

58% by weight of the protein we eat converts to glucose.

That means in every 100 grams of protein you eat, about 58
grams of it becomes sugar.

BUT... it is the weight of the protein itself, not the weight
of the protein food.

For example: 100 grams of meat contains about 20 or 25 grams
of protein, depending on the kind of meat. So it would be 58%
of the 20-25g NOT of the total 100g that the food weighs, or
about 14g.

Now if you want to get even more complex about it... it
appears that the glucose created from protein doesn’t raise
blood glucose levels in diabetics, so you could extrapolate
that it wouldn’t affect non-diabetics insulin response either,
and that’s why you shouldn’t worry about it so much.

[anglian]

I don’t think it be the length but the quality of life that counts.

[anglian]

2.Alabama: Alabama residents consume 77 gallons of soft drinks per capita per year, the fourth highest amount in the country.
The state has the seventh highest obesity rate and, predictably, the second worst diabetes rate. More than 12% of the state’s adult population has the disease.

1.Mississippi: Only 8.8% of the adult population eats the recommended amount of daily fruits and vegetables, the lowest rate in the country. Residents consume around 82 gallons of soft drinks per capita, the highest rate in the nation. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that the state has the highest rates of both adult diabetes (12.8%) and adult obesity (34.4%).
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[DManA]

YOU MEAN
THERE WAS NO DEEP FAT ?

NO STEAK OR CREAM PIES

OR HOT FUDGE ?

THOSE WERE THOUGHT

TO BE UNHEALTHY,PRECISELY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE NOW KNOW TO BE TRUE.

[discostu]

No they’re not. Lard tastes good. Olive oil is OK for some stuff, most of the rest taste lame.

[Trillian]

I can’t stand the taste of food fried in canola oil. It makes food taste awful. I use peanut oil or corn oil for deep frying. Olive oil for cooking and marinating vegetables/salads. Bacon grease for certain breakfast foods.
We eat a cross between a mediterranean and a southern diet.
We have a big family and no one is over-weight.

[Trillian]

I forgot to add we use coconut oil for popping popcorn. I love it! I haven’t ventured into using it yet for baking though. I like my butter baked goodies! We go through so much butter..

[webstersII]

Lard is a monosaturated oil — just like olive oil.

But unlike olive oil, lard does not break down under high temperatures shen used in cooking.