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The Truth About Fat
Health | June 22, 2014
Being a huge fan of low carb and high fat diet, I was super excited to see an article from Bryan Walsh in the Time Magazine. Here’s the skinny of the article:
Breads, cereals, pasta, and other starchy carbs have been the base of the USDA food pyramid since the 1980. It was the same year when the U.S. government announced the results of a $150 million study – eating less fat results in decreasing the cholesterol levels and the risk of a heart attack. The hate towards fat begun, but the food industry and manufacturers have shown their creativity and flexibility. The stores got filled with low fat microwave dinners, yogurts, cookies, cheese, milk, and cereals. Their message to the consumer was loud and clear. Fat was evil and our products have low or no fat, therefore their healthy. All they did was replacing fat with tons of carbs and low fat junk food.
Unfortunately for millions of Americans, this experiment was an obvious failure. Almost four decades later and Americans are sicker then ever by almost every measure. Type 2 diabetes increased by 166% from 1980 to 2012 and now nearly 1 out of 10 Americans suffers from this disease. Another 84 millions are estimated to be pre diabetic. Cardiovascular disease remains the number one killer, and more than third of the country is obese. New research suggests that it’s the high consumption of carbohydrates, sugar and artificial sweeteners that is mainly responsible for the epidemics of lifestyle diseases.
Studies by Dr. Eric Westman at the Duke’s University found that replacing carbs with fat could help manage and even reverse diabetes. High fat diet has been proven to be successful in treating epilepsy and more and more studies are now showing that Ketogenic diet might be the new anti-cancer diet that has the capability to starve the bad cancer cells, which can’t survive without glucose. An article about Dr. Fred Hatfield who survived a widespread metastatic cancer was published last year in CBN news. Dr. Hatfield switched to Keto diet after doctors told him that he’s got only 3 months to live. Dr. Hatfield was literally shocked that the cancer was completely gone, and without any trace even a year later.
Low carb and Ketogenic diet are becoming more and more popular as we begin to realize what the real devil is. It’s unfortunate to be the generation that grew up on a high carb low fat diet, because getting off the sugar addiction is not an easy task. What keeps me on track with low carb and Keto diet is realizing, how lucky I am for being healthy and for not having to deal with any lifestyle or metabolic disease.
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Hey! Read here:
http://www.zuzkalight.com/nutrition/why-fruits-are-still-an-important-part-of-our-diet/
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Aylin thanks for posting that article! I hadn’t seen it yet
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I’m so glad you posted this, Zuzka. I am on no sugar no grains, as promoted by Vinnie Tortorich in his book “Fitness Confidential.” It is also good to read “Grain Brain”, as it has much information about grains and what they do to you. It really sucks to do it unless you have money and can cook on your own – every meal is still following the pyramid if you go out to restaurants, and everything HAS to have a starch or grain as a side. I have to beg for bacon instead of toast sometimes.
Hopefully this information becomes more prevalent. Until then, I’ll be the crazy girl that eats no bread…
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For two days my comment was awaiting moderation and then it wasn’t posted at all. Not very nice.
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Zuzka, I love the article! I’m currently on the keto diet, I know this one lady who doctor placed her on this same diet to lose weight. She did great while on it. A lot of people don’t know about healthy fats and have always been told to stay away from fat..period..However it is what it is, if a person feel happy with his/her health and is not worried about anything, then so be it.
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so confused…. each side makes valid points.
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Low fat high carb diet made of plants is the diet that is being consumed by many animals in nature, apart from animals-carnivores which we are clearly not. How would you explain low carb and katogenic diet from evolutionary perspective? When did we evolve to it? Latest research suggests that early humans were relying heavily on plants vs. hunted animals as it has been thought till recently. Just curious about this. Also, are there any endurance athletes that are thriving on low carb katogenic diet? I never heard of one. 🙂 If this diet is optimal for us, shouldn’t more people in sport use it. I hope you will get around my questions. Would love to know what your opinion is. Thanks xoxo
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I just want to add that not matter what you include in your diet, unless most of your food is organic, that could be a disease culprit in itself. There are so many harmful chemicals in our food to get the best looking, quickest growing foods in our stores. It’s rare to have true heirloom food anymore. Last fall I took my preschooler on a feild trip to a farm. At the end they showed us the food in stores made from the corns soy and wheat and I wanted to barf. Not to mention, they taught the kids how to make fresh apple juice and asked them if they could drink the juice, then said no because it’s not safe. They said it had to be pasteurized first. It dawned on me that they have to pasteurize fresh juice because of what they treat them with. Pushed me more on the homesteading direction to make healthy lifestyle more affordable than the organic section at the store.
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I know I am commenting on it a bit late, but I am suspicious about the role of keto diet in cancer treatment. I have nothing against fat, but it is clinically proven that high-protein diet increases risk of cancer by almost as much as smoking does, so obviously I wonder how could cancer be beaten with keto diet if protein is so present in it.
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Hello Zuz! I have a question for you:
Have you ever think about being veggi?
Thank you great day!!