Let's just do a quick hit & run, slash & burn here, OK? Here's the self-serving columnist, and here's her article.
Boost Your Immunity Simply by Avoiding Fatty Foods
Ok. Raise your hand if you are unclear on the subject of whether foods that are high in fat are good for you or bad for you. Go ahead and take a couple of moments to think about. Fat. Good thing or bad thing? BAD! And not just for your waistline. In fact, new research is suggesting that you can actually boost your immunity to colds, the flu and other dangerous health conditions simply by avoiding fatty fare.
"You." As in...humans? I'll get to that, later. In the meantime, Google vitamin D. Just getting one's 25(OH)D levels to optimum (>50 ng/mL) makes all else pale in comparison in terms of immunity.
That’s right. Too much fat in your diet is not such a great thing for the overall optimal function of your body, its component parts OR your mental health. That said, one can never hear this enough. You can never hear enough reasons why you should put down the fish and chips, skip the fried anything and instead reach for a lean piece of chicken or salad. And now there’s one more . . .
Typical; you haven't controlled for variables because you're only interested in one. How about the batter on the fish? "Fried anything?" Like what; like the stir fried meat and veggies the Okinawans -- y'know, the longest lived people on Earth -- do...in LARD? And what about the difference between natural fats (animal, coconut -- 90% saturated -- olive) vs., say, modern vegetable, grain & seed oils astronomically high in pro-inflammatory omega-6 fatty acids, and as poly-unsaturates, highly subject to oxidation? Huh?
New research out of University of Gothenburg is reinforcing this truism and comes to you with research containing fresh evidence that eating highly fatty foods, especially over long periods of time, can significantly weaken your body’s natural immune system.
Question: if it's a "truism," then why bother researching it? Are you an idiot? "Reinforce a truism?" Next you'll be proving axioms, I'm sure.
The research was conducted on mice (who, if we’d just leave them alone, would probably never dream of eating too much fat). At any rate, the mice were fed a lard-based diet over an extended period of time. Over that same time period, those mice displayed a decreasing ability to fight off bacteria in the blood. The fat content in their diets was significant; about 60 percent of calories came in the form of fat. The immune system function of these mice was compared to a control group of mice who were fed a diet of approximately 10 percent total fat content.
Mice are mostly herbivorous, unlike omnivorous -- bordering on carnivorous -- humans, you dumbshit, and notoriously don't do well on high fat -- any more than the rabbits do that form the basis of the lipid hypothesis for heart disease, ignoramus. Tell you what, genius: go get a cat and feed it lettuce & carrots. Tell me how it works out.
Again, it’s important to not that a mouse left to his own devices would likely not choose this as his path. But not so with humans, which is why these studies can be particularly useful.
Now, does this ever try my patience over my oath to drop the f-bombs.... A big cat left to its own devices will take you by the neck, bleed you, rip you open and eat your liver. Then he'll go for other organs and fat. I assure you: his immune system will be functioning just fine. A worm, left to its own devices, eats the bacteria in dirt. A bird eats worms, bugs, & seeds. Are you getting this yet, dear Sylvia, or should I continue to make you look so stupid? Oh, never mind...I'll leave it to you.
This is but one more important piece of research that will hopefully help us to understand the direct connection between diets high in fat and consequent poor health.
Oh, very "important," indeed. Feed a rat a diet unsuited to its evolution and it has problems. Such a harbinger of doom for us homo sapiens.
Juxtaposition: Modern Hunter-Gatherers vs. Modern Force-Backed Administrations
Your rant style is impeccable.
I had to laugh! True, it’s the bunnies on cholestesterol all over…
Funny thing is that ever since I have done Paleo/Hyperlipid I almost never get sick…..
I’ll probably do a post on this but me neither, at least overtly clinically.
Sometime last spring I attended a wedding, was in contact with a hundred people, and drank vodka until it was coming out my pore (serious…serious vodka). Then I was up very late, maybe until 3-4 am. When I woke up I felt fine, went to a resto, ordered steak & eggs and though something was wrong. It had this awful bitter taste. I returned it, they gave me bacon and that seemed OK. Fast forward to that evening and I cooked dinner for a bunch (braised short ribs, as I recall), and guess what? Same awful taste. This persisted for days anytime I ate anything. Is was as though salivary glands were pumping out noxious crap any time something went in my mouth. Then it went away, just like that.
Fat forward to the holidays and I was up at our cabin, two groups of family, several people sick with colds. Well, guess what, as of a few days ago? Exact same thing.
I speculate that when you have a full blown cold or sinus infection that you’re so overwrought you can’t really taste your food anyway, but I have no other symptoms at all except extra mucous (I’m doing nasal flushes, now) and I get these very mild sinus headaches, but they go away with a mere glass of water.
So, perhaps it’s my keeping of 25-HydroxyvitaminD at 80 ng/mL plus.
Hah! I have the exact same experience these days. In my case though it’s a little bit of beer (I’m done experimenting with beer – it’s just no good for me) – it caused a nasty taste in my mouth and the back of my throat for a full day. And when everyone around me sickens, I get a little tonsil soreness along with some funky-tasting post-nasal drip. No other symptoms, and it always goes away within a day or two.
That just reminded me again how FUCKING AWESOME it is not to get sick any more. Growing up I had chronic ear infections and ‘colds’ that would last for weeks. The last 3 years, since I really started learning about nutrition – I’ve had one 2-day attack of the snuffles.
This has been my experience as well! I also had strep throat which always led to a severe ear infection every year in high school. I was always getting every cold I came in contact with and it would have me down for the count for at least a week. I haven’t been overtly sick since last April, though I’ve had the same experience with a little bad taste in my mouth, a little tingle in the back of my throat, or just a bit more tired than usual now whenever others around me are out of commission with full-blown cough, runny nose, headache and fever, and the whole shebang. I think along with the paleo diet the vitamin D (I take 6k IU per day) does the trick.
I think, for me, it is lack of wheat and lack of sugars that keep me non-sick. I am almost certain that these depress the immune system.
BTW what does that mean? DONT DRINK ORANGE JUICE, ESPECIALLY NOT IF YOU ARE SICK!
I don’t take my vitamin D regularly enough for me to think that it is making a difference. But the last time I get a cold sick-y thing was when I was traveling and off Paleo for a week, eating bread every night and drinking sugar-y drinks.
Omg! This is explains it!
Ever since I went primal I have this exact same problem after some heavy consumption of tequila. I would order a sloppy pizza the next day (to tear off the toppings) only to find my taste buds can’t tolerate tomatoes in any form after one of these special occasions. I just thought I was getting too old to party ;P
However, I rarely get sick and one time in the last 1.5 years wasn’t utterly miserable.
Thanks and keep up the great work.
I have not been ill or caught any sort of infection for the last 6 years since going high fat/low carb. Migraines (from which I have suffered since childhood) are now a rare occurrence and the severe back pain/sciatica I suffered as the result of a training-related prolapsed disc has been eliminated (unless I let the fat percentage of my diet slip).
Oh, I forgot to add that my hayfever (also suffered this since childhood) is now virtually non-existent!
Mee too. I used to have to take Contac as a kid and graduated to prescription meds in college. Have had only a couple mild attacks in the lest few years total. In one case, however, EVERYDODY was suffering. We were camping, there was wind, and some kind of weed was going off so much cotton it was like snow.
Sensible people would just leave the area. In my case, another scotch seemed to help.
“Migraines (from which I have suffered since childhood) are now a rare occurence ”
@Alex Thorn
Me too. Childhood migraines into adulthood that used to destroy me. Got on Paleo……and they disappear. I suspect that I am sensitive to grains/gluten.
My lifelong migraines and frequent tension headaches seem to be related to my blood sugar, because now when I overindulge in carbs (doesn’t matter what carbs – sugar, grains, or just too much of my usual sweet potato) I know because I get a headache right after the meal.
NOW it makes complete sense that most migraines during my childhood started at school or when I went to someone else’s house – my mother was pretty strict with what I ate and always told me ‘too much sugar gives you diabetes’ and most days I would have few processed foods, nothing with sugar, she didn’t even buy juice (although we ate plenty of grains and unsweetened wheat products). At school and my friend’s houses, it was nothing but processed junk and sugary treats..
Discovering your particular trigger[s] is the main thing. In my case I think I have finally tracked it down to caffeine! That’s not to say ingesting caffeine gives me a migraine but the withdrawal of it from my system if I start then stop does. So now I stick to decaffeinated coffee where possible though the occasional unavoidable indulgence is usually alright – it’s only if I really build up a caffeine dose in my body and then suddenly stop.
Going decaf was one of the many changes I had made when switching to a low carb/high fat diet at the beginning but, much later, ordinary coffee started to creep in at work during the week and then the migraines started again over the weekends.
I’ve not had an infection since December 2008 and that was a mild cold (I still went to karaoke but sounded like crap!). Loads of people I knew were really ill with the “flu”. My serum 25(OH)D is ~163nmol/L (~65ng/mL).
I think that people are getting bored with me banging-on about Vitamin D3 Stoss Therapy, but I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen people complaining about their really bad cold/flu/chest infection on Facebook/Forums. A young lady I know had a worsening chest infection (she smokes). After Stoss Therapy, it was gone a couple of days later. Even I didn’t expect that.
I’m signed up to the D*Action study and have had two serum vitamin D tests done so far. In each case my vitamin has been below the prescribed minimum (even with supplementation) yet I have not succumbed to any infection (yet!) since changing my diet 6-7 years ago even when surrounded by others suffering, colds, flu and other assorted contagions. This has somewhat quelled my apprehension about not seemingly being able to get my serum vitamin D up to spec!
Immediately after my bout with the Swine Flu (shoulda been on Paleo, wouldn’t have happened), several of my usual foods tasted absolutely horrible, as if they were 10 times as intense as usual. Particulary diet coke, and I haven’t touched it since. Suddenly for the last two months I’ve drunk nothing but water, wine and coffee, without ever “resolving” to do so, and don’t miss any of the rest. Very odd.
Was the taste you had similar to the famous orange juice after brushing your teeth taste?
Been slowly ramping up the carbs again, (that vicious spiral has a hold on me, I have a very low tolerance beyond which I just eat more and more, like drinking saltwater) and I feel like I have the flu *all the time*.
It’s very hard to describe. It’s like a very bitter taste, as though your salivary glands are putrid & rotting and squirt awful tasting saliva into your mouth every time you put food in. In my case, it’s very clearly diminishing. Even between breakfast at 10am and now a bit of a snack.
How do you come across this impeccable journalism?
Well, I get bored and I just Google “nutritional idiot” and then I cherry pick the links.
I guess there is no way these nutritional idiots get to read your inciteful reply though is there?
Anybody who writes regularly on the Internet either checks Google or has alerts set up. She’ll see it.
I don’t know how you restrain yourself in the face of such rubbish. Well done.
I take my pledges seriously. Thankfully, I have such intelligent readers that they surely know what I’d have said before.
Pure entertainment.
I aim to pleas and mix it up. Sometimes I’ve just got to do that. If the facts and reason are valid then there’s always the chance the subject of the wrath will think a bit, and that’s really my ultimate goal. Just think.
I started eating fully paleo/primal in early September and didn’t get sick for 3 months, despite taking public transit every day and being in an office where pretty much everyone was sick. Then, Christmas hit, and I let my diet go to complete hell. I basically ate every bread, sugar, and starch-laden thing I could get my hands on (cookies, M&M’s, dinner rolls, potatoes, pie, cake, pizza, etc. etc.). Not only did I feel awful from eating all that crap, but immediately after, I got one of the worst colds I’ve had in years. I am now back on paleo/primal and supplementing with 6000 IU/day D3 and feel great. I know it doesn’t prove anything, but I won’t be letting myself go crazy again like that any time soon, especially when traveling!
I bet it was lard from CAFO pigs, too, making it two orders of unnatural diet away from useful results to humans.
And likely hydrogenated at that!
But, don’t we want the rats to get sick and die?!?!?
Of course we do, because FAT kills you.
…Which reminds me of a childhood “joke.” I had a younger cousin who was phenylketonuria (PKU) at birth. We didn’t know anything about it, but treatment was dietary, essentially vegetarian. So, us kids decided that “PKU” means: “Protein Kills U.”
How clever we were.
Hey, what can I add. it’s all been said. ditto, ditto, ditto.
Yeah, fat is very bad and that’s the main reason Okinawans, after all, are losing their longevity advantage, according to this article:
http://ir.lib.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/bitstream/123456789/6775/1/KJ00004245918.pdf
By the way, it looks like Okinawan men are no longer the longest living men on Earth:
http://repository.osakafu-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/10466/3509/1/KJ00004827535.pdf
I prefer to boost my immunity by avoiding insidershealth.com.
I don’t know what to say; perhaps this writer had an article deadline to meet? Pick a random new study, spew out some anti-fat rhetoric, done.
On this issue I feel like we are Gallileo and the anti fat folks are the Catholic Church. We are not being tortured or incarcerated for our beliefs but we are certainly persona non gratas.
I feel so bad for obese people who wish and hope and pray and do anything they can to just stop eating “fatty foods” so they can be happy, a goal they will never attain listening to vege-idiots like the one featured here today.
Easy with the hysteria Carla. Paleo and mainstream SAD are nothing like Galileo and the Church.
I am not hysterical, I am disgusted. Believing the sun doesn’t revolve around the earth didn’t kill anybody but believing in the plant based low fat dogma has killed thousands probably millions.
I was making the reference to the church vs Galilleo because we are dealing with an “almost religion” that is very powerful. We are not persecuted but the power structure ( ADA, AHA, AMA NIH, CSPI etc) feel to me like a religion dedicated to its own beliefs and dedicated to stifling science and contrary opinion that is so damaging to everyone.
If I had known about all of this I do not believe I would have renal failure. I believed low carb made sense but was afraid because I thought it would damage my kidneys when my BUN and creatinine went up. Unfortunately scientists ( not those mentioned previously) discovered that insulin is damaging to kidneys and sugar is damaging to kidneys, but that information was not allowed to the masses because it didn’t fit the low fat dogma.
I thought it was an excellent and apt analogy, Carla.
@Carla
I think we agree much more 99.999% than we disagree but neither you, nor me, nor Richard have been forced to recant and arrested for our beliefs.
I am sorry for your renal failure BTW. And I do think SAD is like a religion. And you are right, the low-fat mis-information cascade has destroyed millions and will continue to do so.
I think Creationism vs Evolution is an apt comparison. Both Creationism and low-fat diets assume that humans just fell out the sky a few thousand years ago.
Spot on Gary.
Paleo/primal people seem to be more atheistic in outlook too.
Oh dear. Have you seen her website. Sure does like to post picutres of herself. She even lists her stats.
http://talent.lacasting.com/Layout1/Photo.aspx?TalentId=389082&layoutid=9
Is it coincidence that women on long-term low-fat diets also have small breasts? I think not!
Louise Redknapp, in her quest to become a US size zero for the TV programme The Truth About Size Zero went from a D-cup to a B-cup (& nearly ruined her health) on a low-fat diet.
Dr B G, on the other hand….
I think this might be a pipe dream of yours, Nigel. On the high-carb diet BMIs have gone up across the board, fat percentages have gone way up, and average breasts size for Western women has increased pretty hugely in the last 50 years.. and it’s not just because of increased weight and fat gain – breasts are proportionately bigger to frame size, according to what sizes of brassiere sold the most then and now.
Even men are developing large breasts on the SAD, as Richard showed so clearly a few posts back (poor guy really did look like an overweight pregnant woman -stretch marks, distended nipples, and all).
Anecdotally I eat around 80% fat including lots of cream and remain, as always, skinny and flat-chested. Massive boob growth would be an acceptable side-effect of paleo, but haven’t seen much yet. I have seen an little bit of growth, but not enough to buy new bras.
Now, starving yourself certainly does waste away the breasts like nothing else, and low fat diets are usually what I would call starvation diets.
I think you may have missed my point. If you have naturally small breasts, eating lots of fat won’t make them significantly bigger. If you have naturally large breasts, low-fat dieting will make them smaller. High-fat dieting won’t.
Breasts that have been shrunk by low-fat dieting will grow back to their original size when the diet is switched back to a high-fat one.
However, it’s good to dream!
I agree with your second statement, but ‘is it a coincidence that women on long-term low-fat diets have small breasts? I think not! ‘ still seems very sweeping to me. Let’s take a poll of women who eat high-fat and low-fat and we’ll see if there is really a connection. Because most women I know IRL eat what I would consider low-fat, and a majority are D-cups and above.
Are the women that you know IRL fat? I’m talking about slim women.
Most women I know IRL are what I call fat, but most of my friends (majority in their mid-20s) aren’t, and they are all large-breasted. Most eat low-calorie, low-fat, and vegetarian. I am the only person I know IRL who eats primal/paleo/high-fat.. since most people I know IRL are either health conscious (and hence eat vegetarian and low-fat, oh the irony) or addicted to sugar (and usually overweight and diabetic).
O.K. Theory disproved. I can still dream, though!
My experience with sat fat is similar to Dr BG’s. I’d been 34B since I was a teenager, but today if I tried to put on one of my old black little numbers it’d look like I was wearing eye patches on my chest….
What a coincidence. I just did a post on interpreting science writing. Consideration no. 3. Mouse studies are similar [to epidemiological studies]. They can point you in a direction for further study, but are not conclusive. I’m sure you get that mice are not people (although some people are rats). Keep up the good fight.
Cheers,
Tony
Oops… I just finished that yummy tub of fermented cream… it must be intoxicating because it feels good.
If by Sharon’s scale, for humans, fat is bad, then where would she rate fructose and wheat?
I must not be human: fat doesn’t add anything to my waist. However, throw a couple cups of carbohydrates in the mix and the pounds pile on…
I need to know more about this fermented cream you speak so highly of. Do you make it yourself?
I’d like to try to make my own, but usually I get the “Farmers’ Creamery” Organic Sour Cream, available at Whole Foods. It is nice and tarty. Very refreshing. The color is off-white, like natural heavy cream.
If only it were made from raw cream, obtained from pasture-fed cows, that would be really good!
Indeed, the original inhabitants of the Ryūkyū Islands, of which the island of Okinawa is the largest, are believed to have the highest life expectancy in the world.
The other main staple of their diet is pork, as you mentioned early in your post. Pork appears so often in the Okinawan diet that to say “meat” is actually the same as saying “pork.”
Interestingly, one of the other staples of their diet is sweet potatoes. The carbohydrate percentage of a sweet potato is about 20; that is, each 100 g of sweet potato mass has about 20 g of carbohydrates. Sweet potatoes have a medium-high glycemic index, and are often avoided by those with impaired insulin sensitivity, and certainly by diabetics.
Taubes wrote about desert sand rats that get diabetic when fed a “high fat” diet. Really, chow with the fat incorporated right into the pellets along with the carbs and protein. The rodents have no control over individual macronutrient intake this way. Taubes goes on to say that feeding them a diet of various bugs along with fresh vegetables keeps these rats healthy. A calorie is not just a calorie, animals have specific hunger for fat, carb, and protein. The studies with diabetic rats, where they control their own blood sugars by self-selecting high fat diets from seperate carb, protein and fat dishes also backs this up. How can a system of specific hungers achieve proper balance if all the food is mooshed together?
I keep seeing studies where they look at “satiety” hormones that respond to protein or carb intake, but not to fat. But there are also satiety hormones for fat. What if carbs simply cannot satisfy the fat appetite? The fact that the campaign to get America eating a lower fat, higher carb diet resulted in a society where people eat a higher percentage carb diet, with a lower percentage of fat intake, but with no real change in actual fat intake when expressed as grams per day, is kind of suggestive.
I don’t have to blame carbs in this line of reasoning. In a book I bought by Robert Pritikin (I know. But for three bucks at WalMart, I thought it was worth a laugh), he writes that exercise can increase what he calls healthful cravings for carbohydrate. It makes perfect sense that glycogen depletion would increase a specific appetite for glucose. It also makes sense that this appetite would be less efficiently satisfied by a greasy donut than by a plain potato.
Richard
Another classic piece from those friendly folks at “Airheads R Us”.
John
Haven’t been sick in a long time on a high fat diet. A real long time, like never. I’m going to die someday, but hopefully feel good right until the end.
That was totally awesome, especially this part:
“…go get a cat and feed it lettuce & carrots. Tell me how it works out.”
I just about spit out my high-fat lunch
You know, I always try to ignore how many idiots there are in the fitness industry, due to it being my passion and chosen profession, but whenever I see something like this, it all comes rushing back. I like to think I can judge a person’s knowledge of body composition fairly quickly after meeting them, and most of the good ones have one thing in common: They’ve made a radical change in their own body. I’m of the opinion that, in matters of body composition, first hand experience will be far more helpful than reading an article saying that EPA/DHA increase fat oxidation. Just by looking at her credentials, I think it’s fairly safe to say that:
A) She hasn’t weighed more than 125 lbs in her entire life. maintaining leanness from a young age is going to be much easier than getting lean.
B) She’s an endurance runner. I find this far more ruining than reason (A) due to the shear fact that she’s probably burning just about every calorie she puts in her stomach, regardless of the macronutrient. She’s left having to look to others to tell her which macronutrients are “good” and which are “bad”, which leads to the current predicament.
Ah, but my rant has strewn from the topic at hand. I’ll save you guys 10 pages worth of reading and quit now. Sorta.
I found this article she wrote on Vitamin D:
http://www.insidershealth.com/article/the_importance_of_vitamin_d_testing/2664
It actually looks fairly sound to me, but it my opinions above still stand.
Meh.
While there may not be much wrong with that D article, there’s not much very right, either. It’s just a typical pussy-footing BS job.
“Look, people, get your levels above 50, do it effing now, and it’s probably going to take an averave of 6,000 IU per day to do it, regardless of how much sun you get.”
Just by looking at her credentials
When I looked at them last night, I immediately thought, “She’s taller than me, her waist and hips are bigger than mine–but she weighs five pounds LESS than I do?” Can’t say I envy her.
You can rip apart the “experts” like no one else. One thing my wife tells me is that she doesn’t know what to beleive, since morons like the subject of your post put out so much garbage, and because it’s politically correct, it gets the press. Thanks for showing that a lot of fataphobic research is as flawed as one of the originals (Ansel Keys).
Richard, love your blog. You tell it like it is. Long time lurker, first time poster. This is a link to an Anthony Colpos’s (He of Great Cholesterol Con’s fame–the other book) on the issue of not being a brain washed sucker that takes evrything that the media/experts say without questioning. Great post
http://maxcondition.com/page.php?134
Aw man, I just went to the link at the top of the article and saw “Alternative Health Journal”. This makes it look like if you’re pro alternative health, then you may be in agreement with this chick. That’s too bad. I’m all about alternatives to conventional medical wisdom (being that it kills so many people) but putting low fat (conventional wisdom) stuff in alternative health is unfortunate.
Love your blog, have had it on my google reader for months now, along with Tom Naughton’s the Eades, John Briffa, Cheeseslave, Jimmy Moore, Mark Sisson, Food Renegade, Etc
Anyway, heard about this book and thought i would fwd you the link so you could have a laugh. It’s called The Kind Diet. Here’s a snippet from the summary, it makes me so MAD that people think this way!! So to my friend who recommended it, I recommended back to her The Vegetarian Myth. Doubt she’ll read it though
FROM AMAZON:
In The Kind Diet, actress, activist, and committed conservationist Alicia Silverstone shares the insights that encouraged her to swear off meat and dairy forever, and outlines the spectacular benefits of adopting a plant-based diet, from effortless weight loss to clear skin, off-the-chart energy, and smooth digestion. She explains how meat, fish, milk, and cheese—the very foods we’ve been taught to regard as the cornerstone of good nutrition—are actually the culprits behind escalating rates of disease and the cause of dire, potentially permanent damage to our ecology.
Another dime-a-dozen Hollywood bimbo,
Of whom probably had very little to do with the book other than putting a name to it and getting some royalties. Dam! I love this site oops forgot about the swearing.
I’m adding extra 75/25 to my beef bowl tonight just because I read this
. Keep up the good fight, Richard.
OK, Katelyn, but we’re gettin’ close to 90% fat, there, if my intuitive sense is about on. Better watch out for that looming cold or flu. You’ll “literally” CRASH your “immune system!!!”
Btw, anyone see Steph’s latest?
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-saturated-fat-review-article-by-dr.html
Hopefully the beginning of the end for the purveyors of regurgitative bullshit.
Two things we know for certain about Sylvia Anderson. She’s pretty and she likes to write. Question is, does she also like to read? I sent her this message:
Hi Sylvia,
By way of introduction, I am a carpenter residing in Kalispell, Montana. I’ve been studying nutritional issues and controversies since 1977.
Saturated fat has long been viewed as the evil fat. Really, the evidence indicates that excess omega-6 intake is the problem. I urge you to watch this videocast featuring Dr. Bill Lands. http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=8108 The actual 37 minute presentation starts at about 12 minutes into the videocast. Just move the cursor to the right a bit.
I also invite you to read an article I wrote about the saturated fat controversy. http://www.sciscoop.com/controversial-saturated-fat.html
In this modern world, the dynamic relationship between commerce and academia gets blurred in the political arena. By that I mean to say that the edible oils industry has been a powerful behind-the-scenes influence on current thinking as to what constitutes healthy eating. I’ve been asking people what they know about omega-6 fat. Most people respond with the words “little” or “nothing.” This is not surprising. Most people rely on advertising, media articles, or public health messages for nutritional advice. And there’s been no warnings about omega-6 fats.
Please visit Evelyn Tribole’s website at http://omega-6-omega-3-balance.omegaoptimize.com/ and bring your knowledge base up to speed. Thank you.
I see the social engineers are at it again. All I can do is speak from personal experience. Here goes: Over a year ago my weight was 275. Today it is 215, down five pounds from pre Christmas weight. This was done by implementing a high fat, moderate protein diet. My pant waist size was a very tight fitting 38. Today it is a loose 34. How in hell can that happen when my intake of fat is too high , according to the “experts?”
During Christmas I succumbed to a day of my previous eating style. Like a well constructed Swiss watch, what happened was predictable to the “T.” My stomach bloated (within twenty minutes) to the motherly aesthetics of pregnancy with twins. WHEAT! Yes, wheat was the initial culprit. I came down with a cold the next day, my hear raced at it used to, and of course, 2200 mg’s of ibuprofen is what it took to bring down the swelling in my joints. I felt like a ninety year old man must feel like. OH, and I gained five pounds. Yes that’s right folks, I gained five pounds in a twenty-four hour period.
The solution: Eating five eggs per day with loads of butter, lots of beef, bacon with all of its glorious fat, plenty of salmon, and other types of fish, one or two cans of coconut milk each day, and dark green vegetables (sans broccoli) two or three times per week… you know, the stuff that keeps us healthy and trim. For exercise: A series of all out sprints up a steep hill every other day.
Now tell me Sylvia Anderson, if fat is so bad, why do I loose weight, stay healthy and have the energy of guys thirty years younger, with high consumption of fat? I suggest Sylvia read Tom Sowell’s new book about “intellectuals” elites” and “experts.”
I’m just curious how you determined that wheat was what made you bloat.
I guess my real question is: does a bowl of plain wheat berries make you ill?
For me it’s simple; wheat, melon, and beans are the only things that make me bloat and belch (and have awful gas out the other end the next day). Normally I can eat a ton of food with no discomfort. With these three foods I get so bloated, so fast that I can’t even eat a normal meal.
Once I stopped eating wheat at every meal (which didn’t happen until I was 22, sadly) it was pretty easy to figure out I had a problem.
Have never eaten wheat berries (actually I don’t even know what they are) and have no interest in doins so. Fully whole wheat products give me the same problems.
Oh, and I have tested negative for celiac, gluten intolerance and my digestive system is entirely normal.
William –
Have you ever been tested for gluten intolerance? I’m not suggesting you should be – I don’t think it’s important, but it really sounds like you really, really shouldn’t eat wheat.
I’ve never been tested, but after eliminating it, if I accidentally eat it now (so, obviously not much), I gain 5 lbs. over night (that’s about 3% of my body weight), but that’s not even the half of it. I feel horribly full after eating it, and it only gets worse from there. More and more full until I get nauseated, and then the seemingly endless cycle of belching begins. By morning there’s the 5 lbs and then the diarreah starts. That goes on for up to 5 days, and Pepto won’t even touch it.
My new solution (which worked *really* well when I accidentally at some wheat flour in a salad on Thanksgiving. Yes, a salad dressing – didn’t even occur to me) is to fast for 12 hours when the symptoms come on and do a salt water flush in the morning. Clears the decks and saves me from the four days of visiting the bathroom every hour.
Hmmmm…. a degree in English and she likes to shop… we’d better listen to her….
Just look at her archives – can anyone say lame (or dumbed-down)? Or how about Oprah on steroids? This kind of garbage fluff is what most low-IQ Americans want.
Karen De Coster » Fitness & Food Fluff // Jan 16, 2010 at 13:39
[...] Nikoley points this out, which gave me a chuckle. Sylvia Anderson writes for Insiders Health, which is termed an “alternative health journal.” It’s actually a web magazine full of mainstream, mediocre fluff written in the style of Woman’s Day magazine, or similar. Useless, tommyrot, garbage-y disinformation debris written for the American with a 6th-grade reading level. She writes: That’s right. Too much fat in your diet is not such a great thing for the overall optimal function of your body, its component parts OR your mental health. That said, one can never hear this enough. You can never hear enough reasons why you should put down the fish and chips, skip the fried anything and instead reach for a lean piece of chicken or salad. [...]
Sometimes you read something, and you despair
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1244048/Ban-butter-save-thousands-lives-says-heart-surgeon.html