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What holiday Fat is Good Fat and what
is Bad Fat? What we do know for sure that no or low fat has been shown to be detrimental to your health. Of course your grocer's shelves doesn't tell you that. With the holidays coming up the problem is going to be overeating of the bad fats. Bad fats being animal and hard vegetable/animal combinations along with all the sugar your system can possibly absorb. But this particular fad right now is the no fat low fat diets. Yes it is a fad that's are out there and helping make people ill rather than healthy, as you have been led to believe. This premise has been propagated by the food industry who has not idea what is healthy but everything about what it takes to sell you on eating more then you should and certainly things that are going to make them money! Remember this! No fat in your diet or eating the majority of no/low fat foods on the grocery shelves can make you ill! This is not a well-known fact and the manufacturers of those products would not like you to know that. Especially since it directly impacts their livelihood! A bad thing with the no/low fat foods on the shelves today is the overloading of sugars to compensate and are making people ill and does not remove fat from the body, which is supposed to be the reason for no fat diets. A nurse friend worked at a hospital that thought they should lead the way in being healthy and enlisted a whole group of nurses and doctors, who worked there, to go with a "no fat" diet. They carefully created a so-called healthy "NO Fat" diet. Sorry to say after six months on the no fat diet people began losing their hair, thyroids were going berserk, their skin began to dry out and look dehydrated, wrinkles occurred and some began picking up the patients illnesses and the care taker became the patient and unable to get over the illness. Nerves were shot and tensions began to be a problem on each floor that had volunteered to do the no fat diet. It didn't take them long to realize that fat is important in our diets and a must for good health. Luckily when they corrected the no fat diet and added plant based fat their health returned and hopefully with no residual bad affects to show up later. A study out of Australia had fantastic results on a diet that has been said to be bad fat by those who don't know. People in the study who ate 1 ½ avocados per day lowered their cholesterol levels from an average of 236 to 217. This study also proved the no/low fat diet is NOT the best cholesterol lowering diet to follow. The study subjects were on a three week low-fat diet before going on the avocado diet. The result was an average decrease in cholesterol levels of only 4.9 percent on the low-fat diet compared to 8.2 percent on the avocado diet. Another great avocado fact you should love is that avocados preserved the levels of HDL (the good cholesterol), but on the low-fat diet these good HDL's went down 14%. The main fat (monounsaturated) found in avocados is the same one that we all recognize as being healthy found in olive oil. True most of us get more fat than is necessary but the key to any diet is moderation in ALL things! Good Fat also stabilizes blood sugar and slows down food absorption so you feel full longer. It is important to distinguish between "bad fats" - those that typically come from four-legged animals and "good fats" - those from fish, nuts, avocados and soybeans and integrate them into your diet. For the holidays we all will probably undergo a great "bad fat" flux with all the cookies, candy, puddings, turkey, ham, marshmallowed yams, etc. Aim to make lunch your biggest meal, when you're more likely to burn calories after eating. But don't skip breakfast to "save up" for the holiday meal - that tactic usually leads to snacking on sugary & fatty stuff instead. Try nibbling some almonds, pumpkinseeds or low-fat cheese with fruit before hitting a party. By depriving yourself you are setting up for a real shocker after the holidays. Make a light supper/dinner your key to not gaining all those holiday pounds. Eat all things in Moderation!!! Lena ***Lena Sanchez a happy retired Medical Office Nurse/Administrator/Consultant who took charge of her health care in 1991 then found freedom from pain and prescription side effects and is committed to helping others do the same in all areas of life… Editor of '"Ask Lena Health Questions and Answers" weekly newsletter Click to Subscribe |
