New Analysis Of Old Study Delivers Another Blow To Traditional Diet Advice
–Replacing saturated fat with vegetable oils lowered cholesterol but didn’t improve outcomes A new analysis from a long-forgotten study dating to the 1960s adds to mounting doubts over a cornerstone of dietary advice for more than 50 years: the demonization of saturated fat in the diet. Although in recent years the nutritional establishment has retreated...Click here to continue reading... (Source: CardioBrief)
Source: CardioBrief - April 13, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: People, Places & Events Policy & Ethics Prevention, Epidemiology & Outcomes diet Linoleic acid nutrition Saturated fat trans fats vegetable oil Source Type: blogs
Saturated Fat Really Harmful?
Does a switch to polyunsaturates increase mortality by increasing inflammation? Seems plausible. See this Harvard Health article on foods that promote and reduce inflammation. I already avoid polyunsaturated fats due to the inflammation risk of excess linoleic acid in the diet and stick to olive or canola oil (or butter for that matter). As for meat with saturated fats: I do not avoid them to avoid the fat. I avoid red meat in order to avoid the iron load. High blood ferritin seems like a more serious worry than high blood cholesterol.... (Source: FuturePundit)
Source: FuturePundit - April 12, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Randall Parker Source Type: blogs
Statin cholesterol drugs are for bread-eaters
Much of the $23 billion spent each and every year on statin drugs is really targeting the treatment of “high cholesterol”—but actually unhealthy distortions in lipoproteins—created by consuming grains.
Most people, unfortunately, continue to focus on fat consumption, especially saturated fat, as the cause for high cholesterol and have been led to believe that cutting saturated fat and statin drugs are the solution. So let me try and clear up this somewhat confusing issue and show you that 1) there is no real benefit to cutting saturated fat, 2) grains and sugars cause distortions that increase cardiovascula...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 20, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle cholesterol Fat gluten grains HDL LDL saturated fat small ldl triglycerides Source Type: blogs
You’ve Been Rolled, Tossed, and Baked
Here’s another brief excerpt from the new Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox book. In this book, I bash all the conventional notions of healthy eating that have impaired the health and weight of a generation, replacing them with strategies that actually work . . . really fast.
“Follow a balanced diet low in fat.”
“You need whole grains for B vitamins and fiber.”
“It’s unhealthy to eliminate an entire food group.”
This should all sound familiar to you because these nutritional mantras have been repeated over and over again by dietitians, doctors, and the media. And, like many such pieces of conventional wis...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 5, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle Detox gluten grains Inflammation withdrawal Source Type: blogs
Fatty meals and sticky platelets : A new trigger for ACS ?
Every time , patients ask me what diet he or she should follow , Iam sort of amused , as my understanding of diet and cardio vascular disease is at best primitive.I used go with a standard single phrase advice “Anything in moderate should be okay “
What about going for a saturday night party doctor? One of my shrewd looking patient who was recently double stented with DES , asked.
Human body is a biological marvel.While medical professional divide it into various systems for our convenience. God doesn’t think that way .He has no systems in mind when the body was designed . There is...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - January 31, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: acute coronary syndrome atherosclerosis platelet function platelet adhesion and aggrgation and fatty meal briyani platelet stickyness and dietery fat platlet anf fat ldl and triglycerides tgl mediated platlet aggregation Source Type: blogs
An Open Letter to Oprah Winfrey
Ms. Winfrey,
Can you lose weight while continuing to consume bread and other products made with wheat flour and grains? You absolutely can—though it is quite difficult physically and emotionally, requiring monumental willpower, as you already know. But I fear that you have overlooked crucial issues in your campaign for Weight Watchers and the exoneration of bread. You have, unfortunately, propagated some destructive misconceptions. And the people who you have hurt the most I suspect are the people who you would have preferred to help the most.
Losing weight by avoiding processed food products made with wheat and rel...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 27, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bread gluten grains oprah Weight Loss weight watchers Source Type: blogs
Dietary Guidelines for Americans: You’re fat and diabetic and it’s your own fault
(Pictured above is a sample breakfast consistent with the new Dietary Guidelines: approximately 88 grams net carbohydrates, very low in fat, a breakfast guaranteed to trigger high blood sugar flagrantly. Just check a fingerstick blood sugar 30 to 60-minutes after consuming and you will witness just how awful this advice is.)
The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans have just been released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), both charged by Congress to deliver dietary advice to Americans. You can view the Executive Summary here.
Their comments begin wi...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 8, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle cholesterol dietary guidelines Fat food plate Food Pyramid gluten grains saturated fat sugar Source Type: blogs
No blood sugar rollercoasters!
Living the Wheat Belly lifestyle means having no wild fluctuations in blood sugar.
Take a look at the curves above on the graph. The red curve shows the typical blood sugar rises in a young, slender, non-diabetic person who includes grains and sugars in their diet. While the after-meal peaks shown only reach 110-120 mg/dl, they can go much higher, e.g.,f 180-200 mg/dl, in otherwise healthy people. Recall that high blood sugars oblige high blood insulin that causes weight gain in visceral fat, distortions of hormones (e.g., rise in testosterone in females with polycystic ovarian syndrome), and resistance to insulin that, ov...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 14, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar carbohydrates carbs diabetes gluten grains Source Type: blogs
Go ahead: Eat your meat
“Reduce your intake of cholesterol, fat, and saturated fat.”
“Use more polyunsaturated fats.”
“Move more and eat less.”
“Oats are heart healthy.”
“Follow a balanced diet.”
“Eat more healthy whole grains.”
Well, add yet another “proven” statement of purported nutritional fact to this sad list of nutritional blunders: “Red meat is a carcinogen,” as was concluded by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC. Release of this analysis prompted the usual over-the-top headlines and exaggerations, such as NPR’s Alis...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 27, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora cancer carcinogen gluten grains red meat Source Type: blogs
Raspberry Cheesecake Fat Blasters
Recipe from the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox.
Fat Blasters are bite-sized wallops of healthy fat that give you a feeling of fullness without triggering insulin—the hormone of weight gain—thereby allowing weight loss to proceed unimpeded, or even accelerating the process. Fat Blasters are high in calories and high in fat grams—and that’s good!
Fat Blasters can be eaten as a snack, or you can eat two or three (or more) as a meal replacement. (In general, of course, you should be sure to have real, whole foods for most meals to ensure full nutrient intake. Fat Blasters are meant to be an occasional component of ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 9, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Source Type: blogs
Study Questions Conventional Wisdom About Trans Fats
Could a little trans fat found naturally in meat and dairy actually be protective? Amid the stormy debate over dietary recommendations regarding saturated fats and carbohydrates, there’s been one area of calm and consensus. Nearly everyone seems to have agreed that trans fats have no place in the diet. The FDA’s recent move to ban trans...Click here to continue reading... (Source: CardioBrief)
Source: CardioBrief - September 22, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Policy & Ethics Prevention, Epidemiology & Outcomes diet fatty acids nutrition Saturated fat TFA trans fats Source Type: blogs
You are not a Paleolithic human
Put down that bone fragment you were digging with and let’s grapple with a basic fact: You are a post-Neolithic human, born 10,000 years after the close of the pre-agricultural paleolithic era that dates back 2.5 million years.
The Wheat Belly lifestyle and the population notion of a “paleolithic” diet overlap substantially . . . but there are differences. This is a common question that arises. So here we go and discuss our points of difference.
First of all, what I am not doing here is bashing the ideas promoted by most followers of the paleo concepts. The ideas they follow are a damn sight better than c...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 18, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar bowel flora gluten grains insulin legumes paleo Source Type: blogs
Leprechauns, nymphs, high cholesterol, and other fanciful notions
Because the campaign of misinformation surrounding cholesterol and heart disease risk is so widespread, I thought I’d share an excerpt from chapter 10 of Wheat Belly Total Health, the chapter entitled Grainless Metabolic Mastery: Regain Control Over Blood Sugar, Cholesterol, Bone Health, and Inflammation. I recount how and why we find ourselves with such silly and misleading notions such as high cholesterol, limiting saturated fats, and statin drugs that dominate most conversations about heart disease risk. Recall that the Wheat Belly concepts got their start with efforts to develop better tools to deal with heart di...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 17, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle cholesterol Fat gluten grains heart disease lipoproteins saturated fat Source Type: blogs
The fatal folly of low-fat diets
Look for dietary advice from the likes of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Health and Human Services’ Dietary Guidelines for Americans, or just any other “official” source of dietary advice, and you will see a striking uniformity in the details: reduce dietary cholesterol; reduced total and saturated fat intake; increase grain consumption, preferably whole grains; sugar and soft drinks in moderation, don’t sweat the fructose.
It is now clear that such advice was based on a handful o...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 17, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle gluten grains low-carb low-fat Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Daphne, a former skeptic, now a Wheat Belly believer
Daphne was a Wheat Belly skeptic. There are lots of them out there. And I understand that. I, too, was once a skeptic. After all, I started this journey over 20 years ago following a strict low-fat, vegetarian diet.
I first began observing the astounding changes in health in my cardiac patients who I counseled to eliminate all wheat to reduce formation of small LDL particles–the most common abnormality in people with coronary disease–and high blood sugars. At first, I didn’t know what to make of the astounding weight loss, the reduction in appetite, the reversal of joint pain and skin rashes, the reversa...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 26, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories anxiety facial change fiber gluten grains IBS irritable bowel syndrome Source Type: blogs
