Saturated Fat
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Julia J.
... son and as such was put on a very low fat high carbohydrate diet. As soon as he stopped playing sport and started eating more fat he lost weight. True story. Fat, especially saturated fat, is vital to human health. Sally Fallon brings to our attention the fact that human breast milk is extremely high in saturated fat. In France the rate of heart d ...
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Saturated Fat
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Richard Nikoley
... it? Think you know? Let's speculate first, based on heart disease death stats, by country.So, if the "diet-heart hypothesis" were true in its general position on fats, and on saturated fats in particular, then ought we not see some significant correlation between saturated fat intake and coronary heart disease deaths?That graph above coveres only t ...
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What Are Saturated Fats?
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Ng Peng Hock
The familiar saturated fat is embedded in most of our favorite foods such us whole milk, butter, cheese and ice cream red meat chocolate coconuts, coconut milk and co ...
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Saturated-Fat Epidemiology
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Seth Roberts ..
Here, at Free the Animal, are three scatterplots that show better health (less heart disease, less stroke) correlated with more saturated fat (= animal fat) in the diet. Each point is a different European country (Albania, Bulgaria, etc.). Small and large countries show the same relationship.The obviou ...
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Saturated Fats and Cholesterol
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Dr. Heather S.
... cken and fish all have just as much cholesterol in them, so by switching to fish and chicken, dietary cholesterol consumption will not decrease. More importantly, though, is saturated fat, which raises our bodies' cholesterol levels. Interestingly, animal foods tend to be higher in saturated fat than plant foods. These values are taken from the ...
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Fat (specifically saturated fat)...
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Tony G.
Fat (specifically saturated fat) has long been the evil step sister of the dietary world. Thankfully we have people like Jeff Volek (author of the TNT Diet) to help dispel many of these common ...
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Drilling Down: Saturated Fat Epidemiology
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Richard Nikoley
... ill just have to wait until the first of next week. I'd planned to incorporate that with this, per my style, but I'll just have to link it.Whenever back when, I did a post on saturated fat epidemiology from a UK reader, Alex Thorne. He was pretty careful in that -- unlike science frauds and grant whores -- as an honest guy, he anticipated objection ...
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The Definitive Guide to Saturated Fat
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Mark S.
... miliar with (and accepts) the basics of human evolution tends to agree (whether they follow through and adopt the lifestyle is another question), at least intellectually. But saturated fat? People have this weird conditioned response to the very phrase.“But what about all that saturated fat? Aren’t you worried about clogging up your arteries?” In f ...
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Saturated Fat Epidemiology for Math Geeks
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Richard Nikoley
A week or so ago, I posted a bit of epidemiology concerning saturated fat intake associated with heart-disease deaths by country. As you saw, it was all over the map. I did speculate, however, that if you were going to try to fit a cur ...
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Saturated fat risks cancelled by exercise
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Dr. Gabe M.1 Comment
... Masai of Kenya and Tanzania eat the same type of high animal-fat diet as North Americans, but they have a very low incidence of heart attacks. In spite of the large amount of saturated fats in their diets, they have lower body weights, waist measurements, blood pressures and cholesterol levels ( British Journal of Sports Medicine , July 2008). This ...
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