Jack Challem
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 Although I generally recommend lean proteins, some research indicates that a moderately high-fat diet can reduce anxiety. When researchers fed healthy men high-fat diets (with 41 percent of the calories coming from fat), the subjects' anxiety and tension levels decreased. Men eating low-fat diets had no improvement in moods. The high-fat diet contained saturated fat but also ample amounts of more healthful monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats.
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Most anxiety disorders have common biochemical features, but they differ in intensity. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Here's the other bad news about our wrecking crew from the Teardown phase. The high-fat, high-protein program eventually allowed hunger to get out of control. Remember how you learned that after weight loss the levels of your hunger hormone go sky high, urging you to eat? The bad news for high-fat dieters is that only a diet comprising 15 percent fat (not 5 percent and not 30 percent) and the rest as protein and carbohydrates completely prevents the rise of ghrelin in humans. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 This result was particularly impressive considering all of the behaviors that would be expected to increase the risk of heart disease in the French population, such as cigarette smoking and a high-fat diet. This incongruity of a high-fat diet and high rates of smoking combined with a low risk of heart disease due to drinking red wine was dubbed the French Paradox.
What is it in red wine that exerts such powerful health protection that it can shield the body from the damage of fatty foods and cigarette smoking? |
Jack Challem
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| When researchers fed healthy men high-fat diets (with 41 percent of the calories coming from fat), the subjects' anxiety and tension levels decreased. Men eating low-fat diets had no improvement in moods. The high-fat diet contained saturated fat but also ample amounts of more healthful monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats.
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Most anxiety disorders have common biochemical features, but they differ in intensity. Because of this, many of the same supplements are useful for these disorders but in different dosages.
B-complex vitamins. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 The Effect of Dietary Fat on Thermogenesis
Individuals predisposed to obesity because of decreased diet-induced thermogenesis have been shown to be extremely sensitive to marked weight gain when consuming a high-fat diet, compared to lean individuals. However, individuals predisposed are not only more sensitive to the weight-gain promoting effects of a high-fat diet, they tend to consume much more dietary fat than lean individuals, and they tend to exercise less. |
| Let's take a look at this equation:
Predisposition to obesity due to decreased diet-induced thermogenesis
+ Increased sensitivity to weight-gain promoting effects of a high-fat diet
+ Consumption of a high-fat diet + Lack of exercise = Obesity
Perhaps more important than consuming a low-fat diet to promote weight loss is making sure that the diet is composed of the right types of fats. Specifically, monounsaturated fats and sources of medium chain triglycerides can help promote diet-induced thermogenesis and weight loss. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| This incongruity of a high-fat diet and high rates of smoking combined with a low risk of heart disease due to drinking red wine was dubbed the French Paradox.
What is it in red wine that exerts such powerful health protection that it can shield the body from the damage of fatty foods and cigarette smoking? Red wine is a rich source of flavonoids, a large class of antioxidant compounds that occur naturally in many plants and foods. More than four thousand flavonoids have been discovered so far in a wide variety of foods. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Americans are infatuated with a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet, although in truth, most Americans eat a high-carbohydrate and high-fat diet. Over the years our diet has taken its toll, and many of us have become less and less sensitive to our own insulin as a result. Insulin is basically a storage hormone that drives sugar into the cell to be utilized or stored as fat. The body desires to control our blood sugars. Therefore, when the body becomes less sensitive to its own insulin, it compensates by making more insulin. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 The content is stabilized with high-fat cooking oil (DAB6)
Daily Dosage: The single and daily dose of Filix-mas extract is 6 to 8 g for adults and 4 to 6 g for children. In case of an unsuccessful cure, the treatment may only be repeated after an interim of a few weeks. The single and daily maximum dose of Filix-mas liquid extract is 3 g. The maximum daily dosage of Aspidinolfdicium oil solution is 20 g. |
| Hyperlipidemia, Adult
Replacing high-fat animal protein with soy protein may help improve atherogenic profiles in postmenopausal women. In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, 216 postmenopausal women first consumed casein protein-based supplements for four weeks. After a four-week run-in period, participants were randomly assigned to continue the casein placebo or receive soy protein-containing isoflavones for 12 weeks. Results showed total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and low-density lipoprotein particle number decreased significantly as compared to placebo at six weeks. |
Jack Challem
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 In a study at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, researchers placed men on a high-fat, moderately high-protein, and low-carb diet for five weeks. The men's blood-sugar levels decreased by more than a third, and their HbA]c (glycated hemoglobin) levels dropped by 22 percent. The researchers calculated that if the men had stayed on the diet longer, their HbA)c levels would have dropped by half.
• Protein reduces appetite and creates a "full" feeling. Protein increases satiety after eating, partly by suppressing the appetite. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 The traditional high-fat diets consumed by Eskimos—almost entirely seal meat and fish—is heart healthy and anti-inflammatory. Seal meat and fish are loaded with beneficial omega-3 fatty acids. The Masai in Africa, who subsist on milk and meat, have healthy hearts and don't suffer from excess inflammation.
The fats you eat are directly transformed into chemicals in your body. Some of those chemicals promote inflammation; others calm it. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Which is good news for those of us trying to redeem the reputation of this (and other) glorious high-fat foods that are really, really good for your health.
Why the Fat in Avocados Is Good for You
So yes, avocados are high in fat. But that fat is largely monounsaturated fat, specifically oleic acid, an omega-9 fat that is found in high amounts in olive oil and macadamia nut oil and many nuts. Monounsaturated fat actually lowers cholesterol. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 One group continued eating a typically high-fat American diet. The second ate a diet in which fat was reduced to 20 percent of total calories. In the third group's diet, the fat level was held to 15 percent or less. At the end of twelve weeks, the first two groups craved fat just as much as ever. But those who had eaten less than 15 percent dietary fat over that period had completely lost their desire for fat.1
The reason weight-loss diets fail is the same reason present cardiac rehabilitation for coronary artery disease fails: patients continue consuming fat. |
Bill Sardi
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 Saudi Arabian men have very low rates of prostate cancer yet consume high-fat diets. Among 2,270 Saudi men screened, the incidence of prostate cancer was only 3.1/100,000 person-years. A nutritional survey revealed that recent fat consumption was greater than 120 grams per person daily, of which about 40% was from meat and dairy products. Saturated fat comprised about 50% of the total fat intake. There was no difference in the amount of fat in the diet of men with or without prostate cancer. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Despite eating a "high-fat" diet (35 to 60 percent of their calories were from fat, mostly saturated fat from coconuts), the Pukapuka and Tokelau islanders were virtually free of atherosclerosis, heart disease, and colon cancer. Digestive problems were rare. The islanders were lean and healthy. There were no signs of kidney disease, and high blood cholesterol was unknown. |
Anne Harrington
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 These were the years when such large epidemiological studies as the Framingham Heart Study and Seven Countries Study were just beginning to pinpoint smoking and a high-fat diet as major risk factors for heart disease.7 If the emerging findings of these other studies were comprehensive, then Roseto should have been a case study in unhealthy living; for many Rosetans were overweight, and many smoked. People regularly feasted on generous portions of Italian sausages and meatballs that had been fried in lard rather than olive oil (which the Rosetans could not afford to import from Italy). |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| The tea drinkers were less likely to eat high-fat dinners, but more likely to consume fish, salads, potatoes, vegetables, and fruits than coffee drinkers. Also, cigarette smokers were more likely to be coffee drinkers, not tea drinkers. The use of tea was associated with an active lifestyle. Tea drinkers more often reported being physically active. Overall, regular coffee intake was associated with negative health behaviors, while drinking tea was linked to a health-conscious, illness-preventive lifestyle. |
Bill Sardi
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| Journal National Cancer Institute 97: 684-97, 2005]
A study conducted in Japan found that dietary supplementation with vitamin B6 inhibits colon cell proliferation from its earlier stage and that a high-fat diet markedly enhances [Bill, correct?] the inhibitory effect. [Oncology Reports 14: 265-69, 2005]
Zinc
The blood serum ratio of copper over zinc is very high among patients with digestive cancer. [Archives Medical Research 28: 259-63, 1997] Zinc competes with copper for absorption. |
| Journal Nutrition 135:
2862-65, 2005]
Intake of animal fat, particularly from red meat and high-fat dairy foods, is modestly related to breast cancer risk in premenopause. [J National Cancer Institute 95: 1079-85, 2003] However, the Nurses Health Study, comprised of
Breast cancer growth rate in animals given omega-3 and omega-6 oils
(66% reduction in growth with omega-3 oil)
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| University at Buffalo, American Diabetes Association, June 16, 2002]
A high-fat meal impairs the ability of blood vessels to widen (control blood pressure) for at least four hours after a meal. One study found the provision of a powdered fruit-vegetable concentrate can reverse this effect. [J Am College Cardiology 41: 1744-49, 2003]
This is in contrast to another study which showed that 1,000 mg of vitamin C and 800 IU of vitamin E did not improve blood flow following consumption of a high- or low-fat meal. |
| Supplementation of a high-fat diet with flaxseed flour or defatted flaxseed meal (5% or 10%) was provided to animals. Flaxseed flour appeared to be superior to de-fatted-flaxseed meal in inhibiting cancer in the breast of rodents. [Cancer Letters 60:135-42, 1991 ]
Whole grains consistently test positively as cancer prevention agents. Whole grains contain IP6 phytate, more so than other plant foods. The intake of the whole grain, with bran that provides IP6, is emphasized for optimum human health. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 If you shop when you're hungry, you're more likely to be tempted by high-fat or high-calorie foods.
• Eat three meals a day and never skip breakfast. If you don't eat breakfast, your metabolism is more likely to
99 slow down to compensate for not receiving any new calories. In addition, you'll be more likely to experience low energy and food cravings later in the day. Eat slowly. It takes twenty minutes for your stomach to signal your brain that it is full. Try putting your fork down between bites, and take a drink of water to help you slow down. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Today's children are bombarded and brainwashed with well-crafted TV ads from fast-food chains and other purveyors of high-fat, high-sugar meals and snacks. When one totals the sugar intake of the average American, including refined sugar, high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners, the shocking intake is 142 pounds a year, or roughly 2 Vi pounds per week, according to a report by CBS Broadcasting on June 17, 2007. This figure has risen 23 percent in the last 25 years and is a major cause of soaring rates of obesity and diabetes. |
Anne Harrington
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| Would immigrant Japanese-Americans adopt a more high-fat, Western-style diet as they assimilated? And would such a transition affect Japanese-American rates of heart disease?
Syme was interested in something else. He had done earlier research which indicated that men who had either recently moved or changed jobs were more likely to suffer a heart attack than men who had done neither. This was especially true when a man was forced to relocate from a rural setting (e.g., laboring on a farm) to an urban office job. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| The French Paradox is the term used to describe the well-known fact that the French have less heart disease than Americans, despite the fact that they eat far more high-fat foods (like cheese). m
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If you buy into the fact that fat alone is responsible for heart disease (I do not), this indeed looks like a paradox, but as most nutritionists are now aware, the "fat causes heart disease" paradigm is woefully out of date. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| Indeed, when volunteers are put on a high-protein, high-fat, or high-carbohydrate diet-all of which are equally pleasurable and palatable—those on the high-protein program always consume the fewest calories.2 When your diet centers on protein, not only will you eat fewer calories, but you'll also get the double bonus of fewer usable calories. Let's do the math. If you consumed 2,000 calories of pure protein daily, you'd have only 1,400 calories of usable energy. Again, the secret of high-protein diets is that you can eat more protein than fat or carbohydrate and get "free" calories. |
Elaine Magee
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 In a recent diet analysis of the 90,000 premenopausal women enrolled in the Nurses' Health Study II, researchers found that the women who ate the most animal fat (23 percent of calories)—mainly from red meat and high-fat dairy foods—were 33 percent more likely to develop breast cancer, compared with women who ate the least (12 percent of calories) of those foods. |
| While high-fat diets have been associated with an increased risk of colon and prostate cancer, it's the type of fat (rather than the total amount) that looks to be most important for preventing many types of cancer, including breast cancer. We may be adding ovarian cancer to that list, too. Although not definitive, a new study in Cancer Causes and Control found that women whose diets included large amounts of olive oil reduced their ovarian cancer risk by 30 percent. |
| The ACS states that high-fat diets are associated with an increased risk of colon, rectal, prostate, and endometrial cancer and that the consumption of meat, especially red meat, has been linked to colon and prostate cancer as well. Saturated fat specifically has been found to promote cancer development in laboratory studies. And gram for gram, fat in food contains more than twice the calories as carbohydrate and protein, making it a potential weight-gain promoter when eaten in excessive amounts day after day. |
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