Posted by larryhoover on December 27, 2012, at 15:19:59
In reply to Re: High fat diet -) inflammation -) depression, posted by rca on December 27, 2012, at 11:50:23
> Macronutrients are macro because they are needed relatively large amounts primarily carbs readily burned for energy...
I know that what I'm suggesting is not consistent with current nutritional dogma, but carbs are not necessary in our diets. In fact, I would argue that they were only occasionally available to our hunter-gatherer ancestors, i.e. seasonally. Our default energy source is fat. Our liver can create glucose from protein. There is nothing essential whatsoever about carbohydrates.
> Of course there are some nutrients that are not in plants, animals make them like cholesterol and arachidonic acid, When we eat other animals storages of these important nutrients they lose their nutritive role, the former compound responsible for heart disease and the latter implicated in depression (and inflammation).
There is no relationship between dietary intake of cholesterol, and cholesterol levels in our blood. And if you read the following study, you'll see that high arachidonic acid levels can be present, in the absence of inflammatory derivatives. In all but the most recent work, any earlier study related to fat intake and sequelae was hopelessly confounded by an uncontrolled independent variable, i.e. carb intake. Only when carb intake is controlled can you see what effect is attributable to fat intake.
I think the following study has an interesting remark in the conclusions section. "Persistence of (low saturated fat diet) recommendations in the face of continued failure of large trials to show an effect of saturated fat remains one of the strange anomalies in current medical science."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2974193/
> The key in reduction of obesity is to limit fats
I believe I provided good evidence already of the falsity of that belief. Carb restriction is required.
> And portion control as the only accepted technique (in every tested species I think)that appears to be correlated with long life is calorie restriction.
Calorie restriction has not been shown to extend life in humans, as far as I am aware. Portion control is only necessary when your satiety mechancisms are perverted by carb intake. Again, I provided evidence for this mechanism already.
Lar
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