Saturated Fat Diet - Articles
Benefits of High-Saturated Fat Diets (Part I)
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Dr. B G
Results above -- click to enlarge. What's a 46% fat diet? Perhaps what our stone-age ancestors consumed during happy, reproductive, fertile times? The diet compared 6% Sat Fat (low fat) to 18% Sat Fat (high fat) in a little discussed publication by Krauss et al, one of the founders of NMR lipoprotein density technology here in the Bay Area. Chan ...
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Benefits of High-Saturated Fat Diets (Part V): The Okinawans
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Dr. B G
Goya Chanpuru dish courtesy ofTastyIsland According to Dr. Wilcox, Principal Investor for the Okinawa Centenarian Study that started in 1975, "Among the entire population, which takes a sparing approach to food, there is 90 percent less coronary artery disease than in the wider world, a third less incidence of cancer, and breast cancer is virt ...
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Saturated fat in diet and post-treatment PSA failure
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Dr. Arnon K.
... equency questionnaire for the year prior to diagnosis.During a mean follow-up of 70.6 months, 78/390 men (20 percent) experienced biochemical failure. Men who consumed highly saturated fat diets were more likely to experience biochemical failure and had shorter times to biochemical progression than men who ate low saturated fat diets (26.6 vs. 44.7 ...
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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 obvious confounding is with wealth — rich peopl ...
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Saturated Fat
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Richard Nikoley
Who eats the most of 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? ...
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Saturated Fat
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Julia J.
I am reading an interesting non-Ayurvedic book at the moment called "Nourishing Traditions" by Sally Fallon. Whilst I don't agree with everything she says, she's done some really interesting research into fat, one of may favourite topics. D was once a professional sports person and as such was put on a very low fat high carbohydrate diet ...
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The Definitive Guide to Saturated Fat
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Mark S.
... t Off, Anyway?Since Keys has been thoroughly discredited (not if you ask most people with any real say in the matter) and there are plenty of examples of groups eating a high saturated fat diet and retaining optimum cardiovascular health (“Those are just outliers!”), how does the outcry against saturated fat continue unabated? Well, it ...
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Saturated Fats and Cholesterol
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Dr. Heather S.
A common conversation that I have with my patients is how they've altered their diet once they have learned that they have elevated cholesterol. Most will tell me that they've cut back on beef, but are eating more fish and chicken, and unfortunately, their cholesterol levels have not improved. All animal foods contain cholesterol, because like us ...
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