Healthy Eating #1
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at
10:35 pm
Urgelt asked:
The first of several videos on the subject. In this one, you’ll find a discussion of saturated and polyunsaturated oils in food, and a Google pointer for more information.
Tagged with: Healthy Eating • Pointer • Polyunsaturated Oils
Filed under: Health Tips
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Sounds pretty good.
Balsalmic vinegar is fantastic stuff, isn’t it? it’s a rare salad at my house that isn’t drenched with it.
Rapeseed is toxic, due to its high concentration of erucic acid. So, enter GMO.
It’s sad.
Yeah, you find it in mustard, too,
but most “mustard” condiments are so dilute,
that it’s insignificant.
Mustard substitute:
cayenne + turmeric + balsamic vinegar.
It works for me….
But the Omega 3 and Omega 6 EFA’s are from PUFA’s. HOWEVER, those highly refined oils you see on the supermarket shelves are just as bad
as hydrogenated oils, because they contain unnatural trans-fatty acids. Naturally occurring trans-fats are not all that bad, and plus, they are sparse. Man-made **** (Canola), which is GMO, BTW, is evil.
I use EVO, VCO, linseed, grapeseed, and apricot kernel oils almost exclusively.
Let me clue you in. If you develop any of a number of different medical conditions, your doctor is going to prescribe one or several of dozens of medications on the market which will cause you to gain weight, with absolutely no change in your exercise or dietary patterns.
If this happens to you, as it has to many of my correspondents, you will find yourself struggling with a physiological problem not of your making.
Drugs are just one of the ways fat cells can become disregulated.
Science has much to learn about obesity, still. But thus far, the evidence that transient caloric restriction (“dieting”) produces lasting results is not compelling, and the same can be said for exercise.
Which is not to say that lifestyle choices don’t matter, or that the individual afflicted with this condition has no responsibility to combat it with every tool at his or her disposal. Lifestyle choices affect health; diseases should be fought.
The phrasing you used shifts the argument away from medical science and towards morality: it’s either the individual’s fault or it isn’t.
I’m going to push back in the other direction. Fault isn’t even on my radar. Obesity is a phenomenon. Lifestyle choices play into it, but so do other factors which either aren’t under the individual’s direct control, or only partially so: pathogens, gut bacterial populations, genetics, toxic exposures being examples.
fair dooz, i like it, i just wondered if it was your name.
Do you think by saying it isn’t the individuals fault is like saying they are not responsible for being an unhealthy weight and shouldln’t take any blame? Perhaps you are over complicating and simple problem, looking into the science of it when it’s just lack of exercise.
I have ran many half marathons, being a fat child and teen,due to unhealthy eating and no exercise,i found as soon as i started exercising the weight fell off. Not only that it exercise is proven to help with depression.
I get that you believe this.
We are taught from childhood to vilify gluttons, to despise the slothful, to believe that obesity is visual evidence of sin.
Science is struggling to understand the actual mechanisms by which lipid exchanges in fat cells become disregulated. How gut bacteria are involved, how industrial food processing and chemical exposures and infectious diseases play a role, and much more.
But many people aren’t interested at all in learning from science. I get that.
It’s just a user name, a pseudonym, completely made-up.
Also i do believe obesity is the individual persons fault. Willpower is enough to lose weight to become a healty person. We are not all fat, people who don’t exercise and eat unhealthy amounts of food are going to be obese. The people who eat sensible amounts and exercise will be of a healthy weight. I don’t buy all this ‘ooh it’s not my fault i am fat’ because it is.
What is the origin of the name Urgelt? Or is it your actual name?
Hi Urgelt,
I enjoyed this video, thanks..very informative
Improve your diet. Know the difference between bad food and good food, and use your knowledge in your eating habits.
This probably will not cure your rheumatoid arthritis. But it may help.
For more specific information about treating your disease, use a search engine and browse academic and health center sites.
You might also try this search term: “rheumatoid arthritis research.”
Be prepared to spend a lot of time reading… and understand that there is no silver bullet.
Old man i love to hear your old story in the past but do you have any past story that could help for a chronic disease person like a Rheumathology Arthritis disease how to treat it and what diet or medicin to preffer plz i love to have your advise thanks see
Me too.
It’s not a cure-all. There’s no such thing. But I think coconut oil, olive oil, and fats from nuts (walnuts, almonds especially) in your diet are healthier than consuming temperate crop unsaturated oils for your dietary fats. Even butter and lard are probably healthier – unless they include unhealthy hormones or have been hydrogenated.
I have read a book called the Makers Diet and he is now considered a doctor. He had Crohns disease and he has been able to lead a normal life with this well studied diet. He suggests coconut oil for cooking. I have read other sources that say coconut oil has many health benefits.
Best example of that is cholesterol.
Studies found that where HDL cholesterol levels were high, arterosclerosis advanced more quickly. So eating cholesterol is bad, right? Eat margerine instead!
Not so fast. Turns out there is no connection between dietary intake of cholesterol and blood cholesterol levels. And after decades of margarine – hydrogenated unsaturated oils – consumption, it turns out margarine is very dangerous to human health. Oops.
The FDA is dominated by agricultural and pharmaceutical interests.
Temperate crop grains and grain oils are what the agricultural industry can most easily produce and sell. It’s in their interests to see to it that consumers are guided to buy them.
There is also the “honest mistake” problem in science, where honest results lead to incorrect – but convenient – conclusions.
And that puts us in a difficult position. Somehow we have to navigate the aisles of supermarkets or exploit other food sources and come away with foods which will meet our nutritional needs without disregulating our fat cells.
That’s a tall order.
We don’t need conspiracy theories to explain our observations.
The agricultural industry can most easily supply temperate grain crop products. That’s what they want to sell, and that’s what their marketing efforts and their government proxies will promote.
I can’t even begin to imagine how we could supply the entire Earth’s population with a paleolithic diet – even though that’s the diet we are genetically adapted to consuming. Those foods do not exist in the quantities we require.
Well, why do you think the USFDA decided to tell us that poly-unsaturated fats are more healthy, wouldnt they rather tell us the opposite keeping more of the P.U.F with the pigs?
I am not an expert in this region, infact i know quite little, but maybe the effects of Saturated Fat on pigs is different than the effect on humans.
Also, when you said the “-economical way to fatten-”
I thought you were about to say Americans, im thinking o great a conspiracy theory!
Quite right. Olive oil has known health benefits. So, too, does fish oil. I’m convinced that in moderation, meat, lard and butter are healthier than any margarine – though those benefits can be lost if these products are produced with industrial methods (hydrogenation, toxins, hormones, antibiotics, etc.). Nuts and seeds can be healthful sources of fats, too. I advise pursuing variety among these sources.
I think the oils to be avoided are temperate crop unsaturated oils.
Very interesting video, Urgelt.
However, using no other oils but coconut cannot be the solution, can it? From what you have read, are you certain that polyunsaturated oils have absolutely no essential benefits? (By essential, I mean that cannot be obtained otherwise.)