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Best Oils/Fats to use..

11 years ago

From the King of wisdom..

Basically and primarily, only high quality vegetable oils should be used, which are rich in monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids. Olive oil, canola oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, corn oil, almond oil, sesame oil, walnut oil, hazelnut oil, evening primrose oil, borage oil, wheat germ oil and peanut oil, are very good here because these oils to a large extent reduce the negative influence of trans fats in many prepared foods, that is to say, meals. In the preparation of food and meals, one should pay very close attention that, as much as possible, these only contain healthy fats and oils with mono and poly unsaturated fats. Important therefore, are, for example, particularly omega-3 fatty acids, which are specifically found in fish oils from salmon, trout, herring, tuna and mackerel, as well as in krill oil and the oils of various olives, in rapeseed [canola], nuts, hemp seeds and flax seeds [linseed], and so forth. It is important, however, that all of these oils are cold pressed, otherwise they are as good as worthless relative to the simple or multiple unsaturation of the fatty acids.

In the omega-3 fatty acids the factors EPA and DHA are also of great significance, because, in the context of a balanced diet, they make a significant contribution in relation to good health, whereby these substances exert a valuable influence on the regulation of blood. In addition, DHA is a very important component for the function of photoreceptors as well as for the conducting membranes of the brain, for the concentration, the memory, the ability to learn and in the support of mental performance. Omega-3 fatty acids are also essential for the healing of inflammatory processes, which not infrequently trigger chronic diseases and therefore bring with them long-term suffering. Omega-3 fatty acids must be consumed because the human body itself cannot produce them.

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Here is a link that might be useful: FIGU Special Bulletin No. 71

Comments (7)

  • 11 years ago
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    I don't know where you got that info. All oils which get exposed to oxygen become oxidized they become trans fats. If you heat them this increases that factor. Omega 3-6-9 are usually encapsulated to be free from oxygen. This year the scam of saturated being bad was exposed in new york times,
    Our great great grand parents did not have oils and heart attacks were so rare that they were not mention in many medical book.
    Everyone made a big mistake listening to the American Heart Association [AHA] it has probably killed a billion people.

  • 11 years ago
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    My mistake is was the Wall street Journal
    Wall street Journal on saturated fat and Crisco

    "Saturated fat does not cause heart disease"�"or so concluded a big study published in March in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. How could this be? The very cornerstone of dietary advice for generations has been that the saturated fats in butter, cheese and red meat should be avoided because they clog our arteries. For many diet-conscious Americans, it is simply second nature to opt for chicken over sirloin, canola oil over butter.

    The new study's conclusion shouldn't surprise anyone familiar with modern nutritional science, however. The fact is, there has never been solid evidence for the idea that these fats cause disease. We only believe this to be the case because nutrition policy has been derailed over the past half-century by a mixture of personal ambition, bad science, politics and bias.
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    Our distrust of saturated fat can be traced back to the 1950s, to a man named Ancel Benjamin Keys, a scientist at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Keys was formidably persuasive and, through sheer force of will, rose to the top of the nutrition world�"even gracing the cover of Time magazine�"for relentlessly championing the idea that saturated fats raise cholesterol and, as a result, cause heart attacks.

    This idea fell on receptive ears because, at the time, Americans faced a fast-growing epidemic. Heart disease, a rarity only three decades earlier, had quickly become the nation's No. 1 killer. Even President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in 1955. Researchers were desperate for answers.

    As the director of the largest nutrition study to date, Dr. Keys was in an excellent position to promote his idea. The "Seven Countries" study that he conducted on nearly 13,000 men in the U.S., Japan and Europe ostensibly demonstrated that heart disease wasn't the inevitable result of aging but could be linked to poor nutrition.

    Critics have pointed out that Dr. Keys violated several basic scientific norms in his study. For one, he didn't choose countries randomly but instead selected only those likely to prove his beliefs, including Yugoslavia, Finland and Italy. Excluded were France, land of the famously healthy omelet eater, as well as other countries where people consumed a lot of fat yet didn't suffer from high rates of heart disease, such as Switzerland, Sweden and West Germany. The study's star subjects�"upon whom much of our current understanding of the Mediterranean diet is based�"were peasants from Crete, islanders who tilled their fields well into old age and who appeared to eat very little meat or cheese.

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  • 11 years ago
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    As it turns out, Dr. Keys visited Crete during an unrepresentative period of extreme hardship after World War II. Furthermore, he made the mistake of measuring the islanders' diet partly during Lent, when they were forgoing meat and cheese. Dr. Keys therefore under counted their consumption of saturated fat. Also, due to problems with the surveys, he ended up relying on data from just a few dozen men-"far from the representative sample of 655 that he had initially selected. These flaws weren't revealed until much later, in a 2002 paper by scientists investigating the work on Crete-"but by then, the miss impression left by his erroneous data had become international dogma.

    In 1961, Dr. Keys sealed saturated fat's fate by landing a position on the nutrition committee of the American Heart Association, whose dietary guidelines are considered the gold standard. Although the committee had originally been skeptical of his hypothesis, it issued, in that year, the country's first-ever guidelines targeting saturated fats. The U.S. Department of Agriculture followed in 1980.

    Other studies ensued. A half-dozen large, important trials pitted a diet high in vegetable oil -"usually corn or soybean, but not olive oil -"against one with more animal fats. But these trials, mainly from the 1970s, also had serious methodological problems. Some didn't control for smoking, for instance, or allowed men to wander in and out of the research group over the course of the experiment. The results were unreliable at best.

    But there was no turning back: Too much institutional energy and research money had already been spent trying to prove Dr. Keys's hypothesis. A bias in its favor had grown so strong that the idea just started to seem like common sense. As Harvard nutrition professor Mark Hegsted said in 1977, after successfully persuading the U.S. Senate to recommend Dr. Keys's diet for the entire nation, the question wasn't whether Americans should change their diets, but why not? Important benefits could be expected, he argued. And the risks? "None can be identified," he said.

    In fact, even back then, other scientists were warning about the diet's potential unintended consequences. Today, we are dealing with the reality that these have come to pass.

    One consequence is that in cutting back on fats, we are now eating a lot more carbohydrates--"at least 25% more since the early 1970s. Consumption of saturated fat, meanwhile, has dropped by 11%, according to the best available government data. Translation: Instead of meat, eggs and cheese, we're eating more pasta, grains, fruit and starchy vegetables such as potatoes. Even seemingly healthy low-fat foods, such as yogurt, are stealth carb-delivery systems, since removing the fat often requires the addition of fillers to make up for lost texture- and these are usually carbohydrate-based.

    The problem is that carbohydrates break down into glucose, which causes the body to release insulin-"a hormone that is fantastically efficient at storing fat. Meanwhile, fructose, the main sugar in fruit, causes the liver to generate triglycerides and other lipids in the blood that are altogether bad news. Excessive carbohydrates lead not only to obesity but also, over time, to Type 2 diabetes and, very likely, heart disease.

    The real surprise is that, according to the best science to date, people put themselves at higher risk for these conditions no matter what kind of carbohydrates they eat. Yes, even unrefined carbs. Too much whole-grain oatmeal for breakfast and whole-grain pasta for dinner, with fruit snacks in between, add up to a less healthy diet than one of eggs and bacon, followed by fish. The reality is that fat doesn't make you fat or diabetic. Scientific investigations going back to the 1950s suggest that actually, carbs do.

    The second big unintended consequence of our shift away from animal fats is that we're now consuming more vegetable oils. Butter and lard had long been staples of the American pantry until Crisco, introduced in 1911, became the first vegetable-based fat to win wide acceptance in U.S. kitchens. Then came margarines made from vegetable oil and then just plain vegetable oil in bottles.

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  • 11 years ago
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    >>Our great great grand parents did not have oils and heart attacks were so rare that they were not mention in many medical book.Yeah...in ancient times people only lived 50 years in average or less!

  • 11 years ago
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    The ages have been steadily increasing from the 1800 to now.
    Heart disease, Alzheimer, Erectile dysfunction, and women hormone problem were very rare 75 years ago. This is when we started using oils to replace saturated fats. The new science is now blaming inflammation caused from free radicals in the arteries for heart problems

  • 11 years ago
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    Most of these medical studies are flawed. Remember type A personalities causing ulcers & now we know it is a nasty little bacteria. Drs made millions on their "theories". All lies. I did work at homes of dr. & nurse & they switched back to butter years ago. I did also. Heart disease is questionable since people used to work 6 days a week & it was hard work. Farmers did not have AC in their enclosed tractors, they wore a hat to keep the sun off. What was not engineered to be full of gluten & who knows what else. We should be using the cream diet for kids with seizures. But doubt AMA approved it & anything they say goes. Even after that Movie producer found out that they have it at John Hopkins Hospital & he used it for his son & he tried to get the word out with a movie. They are still poisoning kids as they refuse to let it be widely used. UCLA said to producer, no money in it for the drs. So it's not about our health it is about drs & medical profession & pharmacies making money. Years ago dementia was called hardening of the arteries & there were plenty of relatives of mine that had it. GM ripped out her stitches for appendix surgery at 83 yrs old in about 1970. Lot of medical terms have changed so sounds different but same ailments.

  • 11 years ago
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    Thank you all!

    >>don't know where you got that infoFrom ET Ptaah: Billy's friend, ..still has contact and and writes down lots of information.

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