Carbs more harmful than saturated fats: Study

stuartbramhall:

 

 

The importance of dietary fat is an essential part of the whole food and alternative medicine movement. In my view, if we want to conquer the obesity epidemic, doctors and dieticians need to quit giving people bad advice, i.e. to eat more carbohydrate and avoid”nasty” fats. Dr Weston Price tried to tell us this back in 1933.

Originally posted on thekirkshow:

Long-derided saturated fats — associated with an array of health problems such as heart disease — caught a break Friday when research revealed their intake could be doubled or even nearly tripled without driving up their level in a person’s blood.

Carbohydrates, meanwhile, are associated with heightened levels of a fatty acid linked to increased risk for diabetes and heart disease, the same study showed.

“The point is you don’t necessarily save the saturated fat that you eat, and the primary regulator of what you save in terms of fat is the carbohydrate in your diet,” senior author Jeff Volek of Ohio State University, said in the report.

To conduct the study, which appeared in the journal PLOS ONE, scientists put 16 participants on a strict dietary regime that lasted four and a half months.

Every three weeks their diets were changed to adjust carbohydrate and total fat and saturated…

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