Quote: (04-29-2012 06:16 AM)Aliblahba Wrote:
Quote: (04-28-2012 11:03 PM)thedude3737 Wrote:
Quote: (04-28-2012 08:49 PM)Walnuts Wrote:
In school we were taught;
Trans-fats/hydrogenated fats = very bad
Saturated fats = not good
Monounsaturated fats = good
Polyunsaturated fats = the fucking bomb!
I don't think eating a high saturated fat diet is good advice. Cholesterol is bad.
Read the article. Everything in moderation. And you can't make a blanket statement like "Cholesterol is bad" without doing some research on cholesterol first. Cholesterol is necessary to maintain healthy cells.
These fad diets keep coming up, then get debunked. I wouldn't trust any that tell you to eat a really high percentage of any one thing. Diet keeps coming back to the nutrition pyramid. Go figure. People like to reinvent the wheel.
Even the pyramid is flawed though. Vegetables should be at the bottom. This Pyramid is a "fad" itself its only been around since 1991. What is happening more and more is people are realizing that modern advice is complete bullshit and going back to how humans used to eat.
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While the government has stood by this regimen for 11 years, some critics say it's no coincidence that the number of overweight Americans has risen 61% since the pyramid was introduced -- and almost instantaneously appeared on the sides of pasta boxes, bread wrappers and packages of other food products in the pyramid's six-to-11-servings category.
For the most part Govt policy on health has just mirrored what industry told them. Industry told them Saturated fats we're bad and pumped tons of money into weighted research to try and back it up... they had a alternative in margarine which turns out is way more unhealthy for you.
This is the essence of modern food policy, industry funds something that ends up being bullshit decades later by then cultural habits are to deep to change and you get epidemics in which health agencies have to struggle to contain.
In Americas prime they were pounding back saturated fats like nobodys bussiness and they we're fine. Many cultures have high saturated fat diets with little to no heart issues. Humans knew for the most part what they we're doing aside from some science they did not understand a good portion of populations had complete diets.
If you honestly ate what the food pyramid says daily you would be fat , get heart disease, or diabetes.