High-Fat Foods and Their Effect on Blood Sugar

Any diet should use high-fat foods in moderation since their calories can lead to weight gain. For a diabetic, controlling fat intake is important for the previous reason as well as the negative effect it can have on blood glucose.. Fats can be classified as saturated, unsaturated, healthy, or unhealthy, but the bottom line with all fats is to enjoy them in moderation.

Why You Need to Eat More Fat

Hopefully, you're not still trying to follow the debunked low-fat diet. Eating more good fats is what can lower your heart disease risk.

Many people fear the word fat, as it has a negative connotation. We are bombarded by packages that say “low fat,” “reduced fat,” or “no fat,” which clearly goes to show that as a society, we don’t want fat anywhere near us. But in actuality, we need fat, and knowing which fat to eat can go a long way in improving our health. Read more

The High-Fat, Low-Carb Way to Optimal Health

Dr. Joseph Mercola reveals how to eat the high-fat, low-carb way for optimal health.

There’s emerging scientific evidence that a high-fat, low-net carb and moderate protein diet is an ideal diet for most people. However, compliance tends to be low for a number of reasons.

Discussing this is Randy Evans, who has a master’s degree in nutrition and works with Dr. Jeanne Drisko at the University of Kansas Integrative Medical Center. I recently interviewed Drisko on her clinical use of nutritional ketosis.

Evans grew up on a dairy farm in Southern Iowa at a time when agriculture was largely still organic. “I actually grew up eating mostly real whole foods,” he says, noting his interest in nutrition was an outgrowth of his upbringing. His interest in the ketogenic diet emerged when he began working with Drisko five years ago. Read more

Fat Is GOOD for You

The medical establishment proclaimed for forty years without any evidence that fat was bad for you. Wrong! New research says that natural fats, such as in butter, cheese, and cream, PREVENT Type 2 diabetes and heart diseaser.

FAMILIES can enjoy high-fat foods this Christmas without fearing for their health after research overturned previously accepted wisdom.

Current dietary advice says foods containing high levels of saturated fats such as cream, butter, red meat, eggs and cheese should be avoided because they increase the risk of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and cancer. Read more

Eat Good Fat for Heart Health

For almost forty years, the medical establishment demonized dietary fat and claimed that a low-fat diet was the key to good health, particularly heart health. Of course, our ancestors knew better and recently the scientific evidence caught up with their folk wisdom. If you find it hard to accept that the "scientific consensus" could be so wrong for so long, Dr. Joseph Mercola explains how and why good fats are essential for heart health.

Omega-3 fats — specifically EPA and DHA — are essential to your overall health, including your heart health.

A recent analysis of 19 studies confirms that regular consumption of fish and other omega-3 rich foods, including certain plant-based sources, may lower your risk of a fatal heart attack (myocardial infarction) by about 10 percent.1,2,3

This effect held true even after accounting for confounding factors like age, sex, ethnicity, diabetes and use of aspirin or cholesterol-lowering drugs  Read more

Eat More Fat for Fabulous Skin

One way to have fabulous skin is to eat more good fats, says Pamela Bofferding. By the way, if you still believe in the thoroughly discredited low-fat diet, you should know that fat is good for you.

Sometimes it’s not what you put on your body that makes the most difference, it’s what you put inside it. Fat has gotten a bad reputation, but it’s time to reconsider. Fats help keep your skin supple and soft, they ward off fine lines and wrinkles, and they give you a glow. Of course, you can’t just eat a box of Krispy Kremes and call it a day—when it comes to having great skin, not all fats are created equally. Read more

Fat Is the Best Medicine for Your Heart

Cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotr explains why FAT is the best medicine for your heart and sugar is poison.

For decades, we were told that eating fat would lead us to early grave. Horror stories of clogged arteries and coronaries were the norm while foods such as pasta were seen as healthy.

But research is increasingly disproving this theory – and sugar is now public enemy number one.

In fact, fat is good for us and should be our medicine, claims cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra, who is based in Surrey.

He says a mounting slew of evidence suggests that far from contributing to heart problems, having full-fat dairy in your diet may actually protect you from heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Read more

The Literally Sickening Official Diet

Was the damage caused by the literally sickening official diet caused by arrogant incompetence or by design?

An 18-page U.S. dietary guideline issued in 1977 [US Gov’t Printing Office] that called for Americans to consume more sugar-producing carbohydrates from bread, rice and pasta and to limit intake of fat and cholesterol, in particular saturated fat, is suddenly being abandoned 37 years later. [Time Magazine Feb 9, 2015]

The realization that millions of Americans have been massively misled by food and nutrition experts comes without apologies from any group that represents modern medicine.

It’s not that newly understood food science has forced changes in fat intake guidelines. There was never ANY evidence to support the dietary recommendations issued in 1977! There was no evidence whatsoever that eating less fat would translate into fewer cases of heart disease or death. [Open Heart – British Medical Journal 2015] Read more

Food Fat Warnings Should Never Have Been Introduced, New Research Says

We should be eating butter, lard, full-fat yogurt, full-fat milk, fatty cuts of meat, sausages, bacon, cheese, cream, and chocolate, according to new research..

New research claims that official warnings against the consumption of saturated fats should never have been introduced

The article in BMJ’s Open Heart journal argues that the advice was based on flawed data and “very limited evidence”. Read more

The Harmful Use of Science

The "expert committees" that condemned butter and led eventually to the over-prescription of statins were lacking the "habit of truth," says Dr James Le Fanu.

The late Jacob Bronowski, in his influential collection of essays Science and Human Values, described “the fundamental and defining ethic” of the scientific enterprise as “the habit of truth”. This certainly should be the case – but the contrary holds where the surest way of promoting false theories is by dressing them up in the garb of science. Read more

The High-Fat Diet Is Best for Your Health

Mainstream medicine finally admist that carbohydrates are more damaging to the arteries than butter, cream, or fatty meats. If only Dr. Atkins had lived to see it...

Cutting back on butter, cream and fatty meats may have done more harm to heart health than good.

Experts say the belief that high-fat diets are bad for arteries is based on faulty interpretation of scientific studies and has led to millions being ‘over-medicated’ with statin drugs.

Doctors insist it is time to bust the myth of the role of saturated fat in heart disease. Read more

Health Benefits of a Low-Carbohydrate, High-Saturated-Fat Diet

When people think of low-carbohydrate diets, they usually think of weight loss without hunger, and this is a wonderful benefit. However, reducing carbohydrate intake can have a lot more advantages than just weight loss.

A hundred years ago, before Americans changed their diet and the calamitous events of the 20th century began, heart disease was far less common that it is now. Few Americans were overweight, and coronary heart disease was not yet recognized as an illness. Pneumonia, diarrhea and enteritis, and tuberculosis were the three most common causes of death, whereas coronary heart disease is now the most common cause of death in the United States. The medical subspecialty of cardiology was created in 1940. Since then the number of cardiologists in the U.S. has grown from 500 in 1950 to 30,000 now – a 60-fold increase. Read more