Re: Cholesterol and saturated fats (ne)

[Guest guest]

Hi ne,

It has been my personal experience that what the National Heart

Foundation states is not accurate at least in the case of my

family. This has also been born out be the hundreds of patients

that our doctor sees. Additionally, Dr Lutz the author of Life

Without Bread, who has an excellent reputation in Europe, has used

this type diet for 40+ years on over 10,000 patients with

exceptional results. It is only now that his life's work is

starting to be recognized in the USA since all his prior books have

been written in German.

Also, please keep in mind that the diet our doctor recommends is not

just red meats but includes a broad selection of proteins such as

fish, chicken, pork, eggs, and cheese. If you look at the

historical records, there wasn't much heart disease 75+ years ago

when people eat " whole " foods, many of which contained

saturated fats. As food became more processed and they contained

less fat over the past 50+ years, there has been a corresponding

rise in insulin resistant diseases.

I have been on many boards and it has been my person experience with

many foundations and government agencies is that they can be very

political and many times can reflect the general beliefs of their

major financial contributors. A prime example is the almost overtly

obvious relationship between the FDA and drug companies. A

significant portion of their drug oversight budget is funded by the

drug industry even though it is a public agency.

The political influence the process food industry has pushed on the

USDA when writing the Food Pyramid 30+ years ago was enormous. In

my opinion and that of other peoples I highly regard, the USDA and

its Food Pyramid has pushed a significant percentage of Americans,

and I would include RSS kids, into insulin resistant diseases due to

its recommendation of high consumption of carbohydrates 30 years

ago. Over the past couple years there has been such a public outcry

from fairly influential people (some Harvard researchers come

immediately to mind) that this year the Food Pyramid was revised.

But again politics got involved and their final revision was changed

and watered down to meet the wishes of the food industry, the sugar

industry in particular.

I can appreciate how you might feel differently and under the

circumstances perhaps we should agree to disagree. I can respect

your opinion, but I hope you can understand mine too, especially

since it has helped my daughter and the whole family. Perhaps a

suggestion to ensure your child is getting enough protein and fats,

since you are very concerned about red meats then maybe focusing on

things like wild salmon and chicken would be an acceptable

alternative.

Beth

> " The mindset that meats in large

> amounts are bad for humans because of cholesterol is now being

> proven incorrect "

>Beth, I don't want to go back and forth with this. But after

>reading

>the latest messages on cholesterol and saturated fats, I feel I

>have

>no choice but to try one more time to get my point across.

>The National Heart Foundation maintains that saturated fats do

>increase cholesterol levels.

>Here are the latest Heart Foundations recommendations for (some)

>dietary fats:

> Saturated fats

> There is good evidence that:

> i) An increase consumption of saturated fat is associated with an

> increase risk of coronary heart disease.

> ii) An increase in the consumption of saturated fat, results in an

> increase in the concentration of total and low density lipoprotein

> cholesterol. (LDL-C)

> It is recommended that:

> Saturated fat and trans fatty acids together contribute no more

than

> 8% of total energy intake.

>

> Trans fatty acids

> There is good evidence that:

> i)Trans fatty acids increase the concentration of total

cholesterol

> and LDL, and lowers high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL)

> The recommendation for it's use is as above.

>

> Dietary cholesterol

> There is moderate evidence that:

> i) Dietary cholesterol increases total cholesterol and LDL.

> ii) Dietary cholesterol contributes to the development of coronary

> heart disease.

> It is recommended that:

> People with plasma cholesterol levels greater than 198mg/dl (

> 5.0mmol/L) restrict the intake of cholesterol rich foods.

>

> (Reference

> National Heart Foundation. A review of the relationship between

> dietary fat and cardiovascular disease. 2002.)

>

> Beth, I applaud your research and energy in seeking what is best

for

> your daughter and it is great that this diet is working for her.

> However, I am concerned that people with raised cholesterol levels

> may be reading the messages and getting the wrong advice about

> saturated fats.

>

> I'm sorry that I have to disagree with you.

> ne