February is Heart Health month, which should have you thinking about how well you are treating your own heart. If you are trying to maintain healthy cholesterol levels, or your doctor has said that you need to lower your cholesterol, you are probably trying to keep a close eye on your diet.
This does not mean that you must avoid all your favorite foods. What it might take is substituting different ingredients in a recipe or stir-frying a food rather than deep fat frying it.
Learning the difference in the types of fat that we eat and where these fats are found in our food is also important to controlling the cholesterol levels in our blood. Taking precautions today could prevent a heart condition tomorrow.
Here are some of the most common myths and facts that you should know.
Dr. Reeves served as past president of the American Dietetic Association, and has conducted clinical trials in nutrition and behavioral medicine at Baylor College of Medicine for the past 30 years. In 2001 the American Dietetic Association awarded Dr. Reeves with the Medallion Award, one of the highest awards bestowed on a member.
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Think of it this way, everyone "knows" that eating saturated fat is bad, right? So the people who eat a high amount of saturated fat tend to ignore a lot of other health warnings (no exercise, smoking, drinking too much, eating too many sugars/desserts/carbohydrates). So when their cholesterol looks high (as their bodies use lipoproteins to try and repair all the damage caused by diet) the "experts" noticed that they eat a lot of saturated fat and "bingo! That must be the cause!"
Polyunsaturated fat may lower LDL but its pro-inflammatory, especially from seed oils like the ones the author mentioned.
Eat real fat. Vegetable oil isn't even made from vegetables for the most part.
Read the science, not the abstracts.
I think the body can make saturate fat. Cholesterol is so necessary for nerve function & structure that every cell can make it.......... even if you are deprived in a restrictive diet.
"The status of the safety and efficacy of the use of phytosterols as a food-additive is disputed. While recent studies suggest that dietary supplementation of plant sterols can have a leveling effect on human cholesterol, some studies would appear to indicate that they are hard on the heart, arteries and blood-vessels, meaning, depending on intake, they may do more damage to the circulatory system than they alleviate..."
"...There is some evidence that phytosterols can promote atherosclerosis in susceptible individuals having a rare genetic condition called sitosterolemia. A 2008 study conducted in Finland showed that sterols can accumulate in heart valves, suggesting that dietary sterols might increase the risk of aortic valve stenosis."
or see Barry Groves "'Heart-healthy' spreads increase heart attack risk
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/plant-sterols-increase-heart-attack-risk.html
"We have all been conditioned to believe that, to avoid a heart attack, we need to lower our blood cholesterol, and particularly our LDL-cholesterol. Originally, dietary cholesterol was blamed and, because cholesterol is found only in animal products, more and more people have turned away from meat and towards eating foods from plants. But chole-sterol is only one of a whole family of sterols. Cholesterol is found only in animals; the other sterols are found in plants...
"Plant sterols may be 'heart-harmful'...
Myth both trans fat and saturated fat are bad for your health . fact http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/2010-releases/processed-meats-unprocessed-heart-disease-diabetes.html.......... "Boston, MA—In a new study, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that eating processed meat, such as bacon, sausage or processed deli meats, was associated with a 42% higher risk of heart disease and a 19% higher risk of type 2 diabetes. In contrast, the researchers did not find any higher risk of heart disease or diabetes among individuals eating unprocessed red meat, such as from beef, pork, or lamb......
Myth changing from saturated fat to PUFA is desirable....Fact a recent study ....."n-6 fatty acid-specific and mixed polyunsaturate dietary interventions have different effects on CHD risk: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials....Advice to specifically increase n-6 PUFA intake, based on mixed n-3/n-6 RCT data, is unlikely to provide the intended benefits, and may actually increase the risks of CHD and death........
Unfortunately, there's a lot of money to be made in misleading people and suppressing the truth.
Fat doesn't make you fat. Carbohydrates (at least in terms of the average American diet) do. Ingesting fat in the absence of excess carbohydrates makes your body burn fat preferentially and likely more than you take in, especially if you exercise properly.
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however i'm disappointed to see yet again the propagation of the myth that plant sterols are better for you than saturated fats. It's the opposite dude.