Ok so like a radar I saw the words " I apologize" and I honed in on the story, Dr Michael Mosley, saying he was wrong about eating Saturated fats, I do like it when they admit they are wrong, I know Professor Tim Noakes also said he was wrong about carb loading for energy and intense exercising, he basically tore pages out of his book that he wrote 30 years ago, when he admitted that he got it wrong! I saw the story last week on Facebook and thought it would make an interesting topic to blog about, so I book marked it, until then I hadn't heard anything of Dr Mosley but that afternoon while thrift shopping for books I found a copy of his book " The Fast Diet" this had to be right up my alley as I am all about the Fast! so for an outlay of just 50 cents I bought the book. I started to read the book on the weekend, and so far I like what he has to say, he is pro "intermittent fasting " and created the 5:2 diet, which incorporates fasting into healthy eating, if you haven't heard of it, I had heard a little bit of it and hopefully I will know a lot more when I have completed the book, but until then here is the article that pricked my interest last week sometime... I was wrong - we should be feasting on FAT, says The Fast Diet author DR MICHAEL MOSLEY
Milk, cheese, butter, cream - in fact all saturated fats - are bad for you. Or so I believed ever since my days as a medical student nearly 30 years ago. During that time I assured friends and family that saturated fat would clog their arteries as surely as lard down a drain. So, too, would it make them pile on the pounds. Recently, however, I have been forced to do a U-turn. It is time to apologize for all that useless advice I've been dishing out about fat. So why the sudden change? And what is making us fat? The roots of our current confusion lie in a paper by an American scientist called Ancel Keys in 1953. It covered the increasingly common problem of clogged arteries. Keys included a simple graph comparing fat consumption and deaths from heart disease in men from six different countries. Americans, who ate a lot of fat, were far more likely to have a heart attack than the Japanese, who ate little fat. Case solved. Or was it? Other scientists began wondering why Keys chose to focus on just six countries when he had access to data for 22. If places like France and Germany were included the link between heart disease and fat consumption became much weaker. These were, after all, countries with high fat consumption, but relatively modest rates of heart disease. Change of diet: Dr Mosley now eats more oily fish, Greek yoghurt and eggs In fact, as a renowned British scientist called John Yudkin pointed out, there was actually a much stronger link between sugar consumption and heart disease. Professor Yudkin argued that sugar was behind the rise in heart disease ravaging the West. But Yudkin's warnings about sugar were denounced by a fellow scientist as 'nothing more than scientific fraud'. He was, as one of his colleagues colourfully put it, 'thrown under a bus'. Meanwhile, the war on fat gradually gained momentum, to the extent that by the time I reached medical school in the Eighties, there was no mention of Yudkin's findings. People were cutting down on dairy products and switching to sugary carbohydrates and vegetable oils. This, it turns out, was a mistake. To turn vegetable oil into margarine, manufacturers used a process called hydrogenation (gas pumped through oil at high temperature), which produces trans fats. These are the Darth Vader of the fat world: good fats turned bad. Unlike saturated fats, there is clear evidence that trans fats damage your heart. They were found in most shop-bought biscuits and cakes until they were removed in 2007. Which was a bit late in the day for me. As a student I took the advice that saturated fats - not hydrogenated fats - were the enemy very seriously. I was slim and I did a lot of exercise, but I also ate butter and burgers. With a family history of heart disease, strokes and a father who'd just been diagnosed diabetic, I told myself it was time to act. I persuaded my father to go on a low-fat diet. He lost a little weight, but soon gave up. Low-fat diets rarely succeed because people won't stick to them - they get too hungry...Reluctantly, I said goodbye to beef, switched to skimmed milk and avoided yoghurt with any hint of fat. It made for a much duller diet, but at least I was healthier. Or was I? Well, no. I kept this up for the next few decades - and the results? I put on over two stone, despite regular exercise. My cholesterol soared past the healthy range and two years ago I discovered I was borderline diabetic. While I didn't look fat, I'd piled on the pounds in the worst place possible: tucked away in my abdomen, coating internal organs. My response was to exercise more but it had little effect. I was eating less fat, but compensating with starchy pasta and potatoes. What I hadn't appreciated is the way these foods act on your body. A boiled potato will push your blood glucose up almost as fast as a tablespoon of sugar, since it is rapidly digested. Ironically, we now know that if you eat that potato with butter, the fat will slow absorption and the blood sugar peak will be less extreme. Rapid spikes in glucose force your pancreas to pump out insulin, which drives it back down, but can leave you hungry again a few hours later. Carbohydrates are also less satiating than fat or protein. So you eat more and the weight creeps up. Eggs are a prime example of how we got it wrong on fats. In the Eighties we were told they were cholesterol time bombs and were warned to eat no more than one a week. So I gave up eggs and tried to persuade my family to do likewise. What a mistake that was. A study in the British Medical Journal in 2013 concluded: 'Higher consumption of eggs is not associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease or stroke.' So eggs are back, and the protein means you'll feel fuller for longer. So, is fat really fattening? It contains far more calories than carbohydrates or protein, and the easiest way to lose weight is obviously to cut it out. Yet low-fat diets rarely succeed because people won't stick to them - they get too hungry. I personally agree with all of the above, I have read about Ancel Keys and Yudkin, while Ancel would have a lot to answer for if he was alive today and what a shame more people didn't take notice of what Yudkin was saying, his book title "Pure White and Deadly" says it all, Sugar is poison and no person in their right mind would willingly consume poison !
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Wendy MeersI am a mother of two grown daughters, 3 beautiful grand-babies. Retired freelance Web Designer and a Sugar Free - Juicing Crusader& Keto supporter Archives
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