Maison Rustique
06-26-2007, 08:22 PM
(http://www.otwa.com/community/showthread.php?t=16447)
maison rustique Aug-19-04 09:42 AM
Fat isn't bad for you?
There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago on how they are taking another look at fat in our diet. I can't link to the article, as you need to be a subscriber, but I've put a short lead in below. If It looks like something you'd be interested in let me know and I'll email you a pdf of the entire piece. (Please reference OTWA or Tasty Tidbits so you don't accidently get tossed out with the spam.)
Quote:
Government nutrition advisers since the early 1990s have conveyed a simple message: Eat less fat. But Americans have steadily gained weight -- lots of it -- making obesity one of the nation's top health concerns. Now, the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates food labels and health claims on them, is easing its decade-long war on fat, and increasingly taking aim at calories. In an effort to draw attention to foods' overall caloric content, the agency may even change the "Nutrition Facts" box, eliminating the line giving the number of calories from fat, and increasing the type size for overall calories. "When we emphasized fat in the early '90s, it didn't seem to work," says Lester Crawford, acting commissioner of the FDA. "We've concluded that the emphasis on low fat and no fat obscured the central message that calories are the main thing."
Turtle Aug-20-04 02:40 AM
Not only is fat not bad for you, but saturated fats are good for you!
Why don't you believe me?
Answer: the American Soy Bean Association produced an incredible propaganda campaign to demonize competing oils.
Health tip: don't eat potatos fried in soybean or other vegetable oils. :nono: By the way, I ate french fries prepared at a restaurant tonight. :eek:
Learn more about fats from books written by Bruce Fife. In particular, I recommend Fife's The Healing Miracles of Coconut Oil (ISBN: 0941599515). This link provides a good place to start learning more before you get a book.
maison rustique Aug-20-04 02:20 PM
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Turtle, welcome and thanks for the very interesting link.
I have discovered (thanks, Jim) that I can attach a pdf file here. So, here is the WSJ article in its entirety.
sadie999 Aug-21-04 11:37 AM
Also, something I learned during my time on Atkins is that a bit of fat decreases your appetite.
Short tale #1: Woman on Atkins eats two scrambled eggs (often with bacon) every morning and pretty much isn't hungry 'til her next scheduled meal. On the morning she finds that she's out of eggs, she has something low in calories and fat instead. And finds herself bingeing all day.
Short tale #2: Usually in the middle of the day if I find myself hungry, I'll have an ounce or two of cheese w/a cup of coffee, and I'm good. The other day, I decided to have a "healthy" salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and diet dressing. About a half hour later I was famished and wishing dinner would hurry up and be here. The calories were about the same for the two midday snacks, but the salad was very low in fat and the cheese was very high.
I've had this week where I think the planet is trying to send me a message. I happened to be surfing around the channels and caught the A&E Biography show on Julia Child. Also, though I rarely watch Larry King, I caught it the other night when Joan Lunden was talking about fat American children.
The message was clear: moderation in all things.
McD french fries aren't poison, but neither are they a staple. Even if it is a great deal, every time we "super size" a portion, we super size our asses.
Moderation - and as I approach a certain age, I find that moderation looks more pleasant than it used to.
Peace,
Sadie
NotMe Aug-23-04 05:47 AM
Quote:
Health tip: don't eat potatos fried in soybean or other vegetable oils.
What is the best oil to use?
When I had a heart attack in March, the Nutritionist at the Hospital asked what kind of oil I usually used. I said Canola and he told me it was actually worse than the vegetable oils because it breaks down at a lower temperature (I had noticed it smoked more when making fries). So now I've gone back to the Vegetable Oil. :(
Turtle Aug-23-04 12:08 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by NotMe
What is the best oil to use?
When I had a heart attack in March, the Nutritionist at the Hospital asked what kind of oil I usually used. I said Canola and he told me it was actually worse than the vegetable oils because it breaks down at a lower temperature (I had noticed it smoked more when making fries). So now I've gone back to the Vegetable Oil. :(
There is no one best oil to use. As an educator, I want to encourage everyone to take the time to think, study and inquire to figure out what the best to care for ones self. I got introduced to coconut oil through Jordan S. Rubin's Patient Heal Thyself: A Remarkable Health Program Combining Ancient Wisdom With Groundbreaking Clinical Research (ISBN: 1893910245). On the Internet, you can purchase a copy of Rubin's book for about a dollar plus shipping.
Coconut oil. Investigating Rubin's claims about the efficacy of coconut oil to healing, I was lead to Bruce Fife's Healing Miracles that I mentioned previously in this thread. My partner and I were convinced enough by Rubin and Fife to research products and prices and purchase a large tub of expeller-pressed coconut oil. If we had more money, we would have paid about twice as much for extra virgin coconut oil. We purchased from Tropical Traditions because I was impressed with their processing methods for their expeller-pressed oil. When I was doing this research about a half-year ago, I didn't find other coconut oil producers who claimed to use methods that didn't involve chemical processing. Tropical Traditions uses heat/steam? and consequently loses its coconut flavor/aroma. I suspect that some benefits may be lost through the heating, but most of the beneficial gains of short-chain fatty acids remain. We bought 10 gallons (640 ounces) because I knew that my partner and I would be ingesting at least an ounce per day each (1/2 gallon per person per month) and that I would be using it topically. Purchasing in smaller quantities, as you would expect, is much more expensive. We use it when cooking, in smoothies, as a spread on toast, and directly.
Extra virgin olive oil. Since coconut oil is a saturated fat, it is solid at cool room temperatures and, of course, when refrigerated. As a salad oil, I recommend extra virgin olive oil. Be sure to buy from a source that has sells in high-volume so that you don't get old oil. Many experts recommend looking for oil in dark bottles (light can cause oxidation): I don't know how important this so we've been ignoring this because of lack of availablity. Did you know that most people cannot taste rancidity in oils until it gets extremely rancid? Don't cook with extra virgin olive oil. The heat will oxidize it. If you need to cook with an olive oil, there are some types that can take the heat better. If I remember correctly, I heard a cooking show host recommend cooking in light olive oil. But now that I know about coconut oil, I've no need to cook with olive oil. We just bought a new bottle of extra virgin olive oil yesterday from Costco. We plan to put a small amount in a stainless steel decanter and to refrigerate the rest of it.
Ultra-refined fish oil with high long-chain fatty acid content. Food grade fish oils, that are found over the counter in health food stores, often contain contaminants such as PCBs and heavy metals. However, simply removing the contaminants is not enough to produce an oil that is helpful for people and other mammals. Barry Sears in The Omega Rx Zone: The Miracle of the New High-Dose Fish Oil explains how omega-3 fatty acids come in various lengths and that most people [men] cannot synthesize sufficient quantities of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids. I've heard this past week that women may be more able than men to convert shorter-chain omega-3 fatty acids into the long-chain forms needed by the brain and nervous system, but I don't have details; perhaps some women can convert flax oil into the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids that their bodies need, but I suspect that almost all women need to supplement their diets with more than flax oil. Bottom-line: purchase and use an ultra-refined fish oil supplement along with a balanced diet. See types of fish oil for a better summary of this--it's been too long since I read Sears's Omega Rx Zone to summarize the details coherently. There are lots of used copies of Sears's book available for cheap, so purchasing a copy may be a good investment.
Turtle Sep-02-04 02:29 PM
New Virgin Coconut Oil Book
The following link contains information on purchasing a book entitled Virgin Coconut Oil: How it has changed people's lives, and how it can change yours! by Marianita Jader Shilhavy and Brian W. Shilhavy, its table of contents, its recipe list, its introduction and several reviews. This webpage also has links to pages containing articles and a forum about coconut oil that I suspect form much of the content of this book. This book may be a good alternative to reading the books by Bruce Fife that I mentioned earlier in this thread.
Turtle Oct-05-04 01:24 PM
Another Coconut Oil link.
Turtle Nov-05-04 09:35 AM
Trans fats are bad fats
Quote:
Tommy Thompson, the Bush administration's Health and Human Services Secretary, gave the following warning to consumers in July 2003:
"Trans fats are bad fats. The less trans fat you and I eat, the healthier we will be."
Visit the campaign to ban partially hydrogenated oils website to learn more about the life-shortening effects of trans fats and what you can do about it!
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maison rustique Aug-19-04 09:42 AM
Fat isn't bad for you?
There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago on how they are taking another look at fat in our diet. I can't link to the article, as you need to be a subscriber, but I've put a short lead in below. If It looks like something you'd be interested in let me know and I'll email you a pdf of the entire piece. (Please reference OTWA or Tasty Tidbits so you don't accidently get tossed out with the spam.)
Quote:
Government nutrition advisers since the early 1990s have conveyed a simple message: Eat less fat. But Americans have steadily gained weight -- lots of it -- making obesity one of the nation's top health concerns. Now, the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates food labels and health claims on them, is easing its decade-long war on fat, and increasingly taking aim at calories. In an effort to draw attention to foods' overall caloric content, the agency may even change the "Nutrition Facts" box, eliminating the line giving the number of calories from fat, and increasing the type size for overall calories. "When we emphasized fat in the early '90s, it didn't seem to work," says Lester Crawford, acting commissioner of the FDA. "We've concluded that the emphasis on low fat and no fat obscured the central message that calories are the main thing."
Turtle Aug-20-04 02:40 AM
Not only is fat not bad for you, but saturated fats are good for you!
Why don't you believe me?
Answer: the American Soy Bean Association produced an incredible propaganda campaign to demonize competing oils.
Health tip: don't eat potatos fried in soybean or other vegetable oils. :nono: By the way, I ate french fries prepared at a restaurant tonight. :eek:
Learn more about fats from books written by Bruce Fife. In particular, I recommend Fife's The Healing Miracles of Coconut Oil (ISBN: 0941599515). This link provides a good place to start learning more before you get a book.
maison rustique Aug-20-04 02:20 PM
1 Attachment(s)
Turtle, welcome and thanks for the very interesting link.
I have discovered (thanks, Jim) that I can attach a pdf file here. So, here is the WSJ article in its entirety.
sadie999 Aug-21-04 11:37 AM
Also, something I learned during my time on Atkins is that a bit of fat decreases your appetite.
Short tale #1: Woman on Atkins eats two scrambled eggs (often with bacon) every morning and pretty much isn't hungry 'til her next scheduled meal. On the morning she finds that she's out of eggs, she has something low in calories and fat instead. And finds herself bingeing all day.
Short tale #2: Usually in the middle of the day if I find myself hungry, I'll have an ounce or two of cheese w/a cup of coffee, and I'm good. The other day, I decided to have a "healthy" salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and diet dressing. About a half hour later I was famished and wishing dinner would hurry up and be here. The calories were about the same for the two midday snacks, but the salad was very low in fat and the cheese was very high.
I've had this week where I think the planet is trying to send me a message. I happened to be surfing around the channels and caught the A&E Biography show on Julia Child. Also, though I rarely watch Larry King, I caught it the other night when Joan Lunden was talking about fat American children.
The message was clear: moderation in all things.
McD french fries aren't poison, but neither are they a staple. Even if it is a great deal, every time we "super size" a portion, we super size our asses.
Moderation - and as I approach a certain age, I find that moderation looks more pleasant than it used to.
Peace,
Sadie
NotMe Aug-23-04 05:47 AM
Quote:
Health tip: don't eat potatos fried in soybean or other vegetable oils.
What is the best oil to use?
When I had a heart attack in March, the Nutritionist at the Hospital asked what kind of oil I usually used. I said Canola and he told me it was actually worse than the vegetable oils because it breaks down at a lower temperature (I had noticed it smoked more when making fries). So now I've gone back to the Vegetable Oil. :(
Turtle Aug-23-04 12:08 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by NotMe
What is the best oil to use?
When I had a heart attack in March, the Nutritionist at the Hospital asked what kind of oil I usually used. I said Canola and he told me it was actually worse than the vegetable oils because it breaks down at a lower temperature (I had noticed it smoked more when making fries). So now I've gone back to the Vegetable Oil. :(
There is no one best oil to use. As an educator, I want to encourage everyone to take the time to think, study and inquire to figure out what the best to care for ones self. I got introduced to coconut oil through Jordan S. Rubin's Patient Heal Thyself: A Remarkable Health Program Combining Ancient Wisdom With Groundbreaking Clinical Research (ISBN: 1893910245). On the Internet, you can purchase a copy of Rubin's book for about a dollar plus shipping.
Coconut oil. Investigating Rubin's claims about the efficacy of coconut oil to healing, I was lead to Bruce Fife's Healing Miracles that I mentioned previously in this thread. My partner and I were convinced enough by Rubin and Fife to research products and prices and purchase a large tub of expeller-pressed coconut oil. If we had more money, we would have paid about twice as much for extra virgin coconut oil. We purchased from Tropical Traditions because I was impressed with their processing methods for their expeller-pressed oil. When I was doing this research about a half-year ago, I didn't find other coconut oil producers who claimed to use methods that didn't involve chemical processing. Tropical Traditions uses heat/steam? and consequently loses its coconut flavor/aroma. I suspect that some benefits may be lost through the heating, but most of the beneficial gains of short-chain fatty acids remain. We bought 10 gallons (640 ounces) because I knew that my partner and I would be ingesting at least an ounce per day each (1/2 gallon per person per month) and that I would be using it topically. Purchasing in smaller quantities, as you would expect, is much more expensive. We use it when cooking, in smoothies, as a spread on toast, and directly.
Extra virgin olive oil. Since coconut oil is a saturated fat, it is solid at cool room temperatures and, of course, when refrigerated. As a salad oil, I recommend extra virgin olive oil. Be sure to buy from a source that has sells in high-volume so that you don't get old oil. Many experts recommend looking for oil in dark bottles (light can cause oxidation): I don't know how important this so we've been ignoring this because of lack of availablity. Did you know that most people cannot taste rancidity in oils until it gets extremely rancid? Don't cook with extra virgin olive oil. The heat will oxidize it. If you need to cook with an olive oil, there are some types that can take the heat better. If I remember correctly, I heard a cooking show host recommend cooking in light olive oil. But now that I know about coconut oil, I've no need to cook with olive oil. We just bought a new bottle of extra virgin olive oil yesterday from Costco. We plan to put a small amount in a stainless steel decanter and to refrigerate the rest of it.
Ultra-refined fish oil with high long-chain fatty acid content. Food grade fish oils, that are found over the counter in health food stores, often contain contaminants such as PCBs and heavy metals. However, simply removing the contaminants is not enough to produce an oil that is helpful for people and other mammals. Barry Sears in The Omega Rx Zone: The Miracle of the New High-Dose Fish Oil explains how omega-3 fatty acids come in various lengths and that most people [men] cannot synthesize sufficient quantities of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids. I've heard this past week that women may be more able than men to convert shorter-chain omega-3 fatty acids into the long-chain forms needed by the brain and nervous system, but I don't have details; perhaps some women can convert flax oil into the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids that their bodies need, but I suspect that almost all women need to supplement their diets with more than flax oil. Bottom-line: purchase and use an ultra-refined fish oil supplement along with a balanced diet. See types of fish oil for a better summary of this--it's been too long since I read Sears's Omega Rx Zone to summarize the details coherently. There are lots of used copies of Sears's book available for cheap, so purchasing a copy may be a good investment.
Turtle Sep-02-04 02:29 PM
New Virgin Coconut Oil Book
The following link contains information on purchasing a book entitled Virgin Coconut Oil: How it has changed people's lives, and how it can change yours! by Marianita Jader Shilhavy and Brian W. Shilhavy, its table of contents, its recipe list, its introduction and several reviews. This webpage also has links to pages containing articles and a forum about coconut oil that I suspect form much of the content of this book. This book may be a good alternative to reading the books by Bruce Fife that I mentioned earlier in this thread.
Turtle Oct-05-04 01:24 PM
Another Coconut Oil link.
Turtle Nov-05-04 09:35 AM
Trans fats are bad fats
Quote:
Tommy Thompson, the Bush administration's Health and Human Services Secretary, gave the following warning to consumers in July 2003:
"Trans fats are bad fats. The less trans fat you and I eat, the healthier we will be."
Visit the campaign to ban partially hydrogenated oils website to learn more about the life-shortening effects of trans fats and what you can do about it!
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