Posted on 12/11/2016 1:35:02 PM PST by RoosterRedux
Current dietary advice says foods containing high levels of saturated fats such as cream, butter, red meat, eggs and cheese should be avoided because they increase the risk of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and cancer.
But a study published in a leading medical journal has found the opposite is true, with a diet full of natural fats improving the health of people taking part.
Professor Sherif Sultan, a heart specialist from the University of Ireland, said: “We urgently need to overturn current dietary guidelines."
"People should not be eating high carbohydrate diets as they have been told over the past decade.
“Instead our diets should be largely based on good quality high-fat foods. This will prevent the rising epidemic of Type 2 diabetes and reverse the growing numbers of people suffering weight-related heart problems.”
The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found overweight middle-aged men who ate high levels of saturated fat and low levels of carbohydrate became slimmer and healthier.
Researchers also saw reduced blood pressure and glucose levels, which are associated with a lower risk of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and cancer, in the patients.
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FINALLY there is some GOOD news for once.
Oh, Besides TRUMP kicking the democrats ass that is....
Thanks, ROCKLOBSTER!
Yeah, sugar is sugar. It's all the same chemical.
Are you implying Atkins diet had anything to do with his death? He from a bad fall hitting his head.
Jesus and our ancestors ate bread. Bread type food items are not the problem if they are whole grains natural ingredients. Our bodies need some nutrients from grains and people cutting them out completely will have problems at some point down the road.
The problem is the convince of highly processed/altered foods (of all categories) with longer shelf lives and people thinking they can eat what they want whenever they want and each person’s lifestyle/activities.
People need to find the right balance of macro nutrients (carb, fat, protein) for them self and get their micro nutrients (vitamins minerals, amino acids, enzymes etc etc) from various sources, not eating their “favorite” foods like pasta, ice cream, fried food, meats, candy, etc) every day or two for years. People are similar but not exactly the same so no method of eating will be right for everyone.
“Now I drink my coffee black”
Dude. Two words:
Bulletproof Coffee
Our household too. I always just thought it’s gotta be better for you than the artificial stuff. Or stuff that has all the goodness strained out of it. Tastes better too!
Absolutely nothing worse for you than high fructose corn syrup.... unless it has been filtered through livestock. Fattens them up real quick.
Carbs is bad for diabetes. The government has been telling people to eat more carbs for years, then they wonder why everyone has diabetes.
At the end of each school year, beginning at age 7, my parents would put me on a plane to go spend the summer with my grandfather at his farm in northeast Ohio. Lunch every weekday was a glass of buttermilk and a braunschweiger sandwich on pumpernickel bread, German mustard, with a fresh picked apple.
Afternoon snack was a slice of Limburger cheese on a raw onion with a Rolling Rock beer (don’t ask how old I was...Gramps’ statement was “do a man’s work, have a man’s drink).
Saturdays we went to the Italian Club for breakfast (social members, not genetic but a lot of his lodge buddies were and that’s who we ate with) — fried eggs, sausages and peppers two cups of strong coffee. Sunday after church, the local greasy spoon for eggs, bacon and hash browns, more coffee.
Gramps lived to be 94. I buried my father last month at 85. Work hard (physically), eat whatever you want to.
Never gave up eggs, never gave up butter, I love fried potatoes, baked potatoes, whipped potatoes, you get my drift.., rare steak, Mac and cheese, coffee...
I smoke cigarettes, about a pack a day.
The one thing I can do without is dessert. I'm not fond of sweets.
I just turned 60 and have no major health issues. Well, actually, no health issues. So far, so good.
It’s all about genetics.
Not because of his health/diet-he slipped on an icy sidewalk and had a fatal head injury...
Amen!
This is an historical Irish diet. The high carb diet recommended by USDA is perfect for fattening up cattle
What specific nutrients are provided by carbs? What does one suffer from if they quit eating them? There are good vitamins in low glycemic index vegetables, but you are not going to die from a lack of potatoes.
Take a step back from your assumption. Plains Indians, Inuits, Mongols and Masai people’s lived very well wiith very few to no carbs.
It is. Better to eat sugar.
Well, now you’ll just have to make up for lost time-light the grill, throw on that big ol’steak, butter the corn and open a cold brew-salud!
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