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Dietary Fat

It’s Got Fat, so it Must be Fattening….UGH!!!

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Boy did the 90’s screw us up.  The USDA’s disease-causing pyramid let to some pretty ingrained misinformation about what leads to weight gain.

The emphasis on eating grains without any education about refined versus whole grains and using fats and oils sparingly was a move in the wrong direction.  We replaced healthy oils like olive oil in foods and replaced them with refined carbohydrates like enriched wheat flour and high fructose corn syrup.  There are few things you can do to sabotage your health more than follow this pattern.
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Dietary fat and the risk of age-related macular degeneration – (02-08-01)

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Dietary fat and the risk of age-related macular degeneration

In this study, total fat intake was associated with an increase in the risk of AMD; however, fish was shown to be protective, so it would appear that monounsaturated fats found in fish, olive oil and cannola oil are most likely protective, and saturated fats (found in most of the foods in typical Western diet…) will increase the risk. This is really not a surprising article. Add in antioxidants with an affinity for the retina such as bilberry to a diet consisting of several servings of fish per week, and I’m sure your risk of AMD will drop even more.

AJCN — Abstracts: Cho et al. 73 (2): 209

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Dietary fat intake and risk of type 2 diabetes in women – (06-04-01)

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Dietary fat intake and risk of type 2 diabetes in women

This article focuses on the impact of trans fatty acids on health. Trans fats are the fats that are not required to be on a nutrition label. I strongly recommend to all my patients that they avoid all hydrogenated oils because they contain high levels of trans fatty acids.

AJCN — Abstracts: Salmerón et al. 73 (6): 1019

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Dietary Fat Determines Effect of Polymorphism – (10-31-02)

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Dietary Fat Determines Effect of Polymorphism in Hepatic Lipase Gene Promoter on HDL Metabolism

Don’t hold your breath for everyone to wake up and realize that the future of medicine is here today…but it is. We are seeing more and more medical literature tying in genetics with specific lifestyle changes. Here we see that persons with a certain type of the enzyme hepatic lipase do not do well with higher levels of animal fats.

Circulation — Abstracts: Ordovas et al. 106 (18): 2315

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