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Saturated Fats, Cholesterol Lard and Vitamin D
Radagast:
It is my observation that people which inhabit certain areas of the earth in time develop preferences for the food that is best suited for their geo-climatological surroundings.
I do not know or have a proof that pork is a culprit in diabetes epidemics which happened here but common sense is telling me that its not very wise to eat pork meat in very warm climate. Think of the fat metabolism and energy release and also think of the diet of Eskimos in contrast to Bushmani of Kalahari desert.
Increase of pork consumption (actually complete substitution of all other meat with pork) could be one of the contributors to endocrine disorders here but this research is still the work in progress.
bedower:
--- Quote from: RyanX 2 July 09 --- I have an old-timer neighbor who tells me stories about what life was life while he was growing up in these parts. He talks about how his mother would pack him a lard sandwich for school. This was basically two pieces of bread generously slathered with lard in the middle.
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Gosh! Reading that took me back! Lard or dripping sandwiches, with a generous sprinkling of salt, were a good 'filler' in post-war snack-less Britain. ('Dripping' is the fat that exudes from roasting meat during cooking, after it had been started off with a good dollop of lard, of course!)
Here's a recipe for Lardy Cake, which can be adapted for gluten-free substitute (osit - may be wrong!):
_http://www.greenchronicle.com/regional_recipes/lardy_cake_recipe.htm
And it really is delicious!
And another one for Welsh Farmhouse Lard Cake, which seems to be slightly richer:
_http://www.celtnet.org.uk/recipes/cym/fetch-recipe.php?rid=cym-teisen-lard-ffermdy
Haven't tried this one, though. But it sounds yummy!
Psyche:
--- Quote from: Corto Maltese on July 03, 2009, 09:22:16 PM ---well in the eastern part of Balkans they use a lot of lard, they too make most delicious cookies using lard, similarly I was pretty much disgusted with the idea when it was first offered and took it just so as not to offend the host but as soon as I tasted it I couldnt stop eating.
They also use it in all kinds of breads and puff pastry and as Laura noticed it does give some special quality to pastry.
Apart from this there is a very popular savory delicacy which is basically nothing but little pieces of pork fat which are somehow made crunchy and are usually eaten as nibbles when consuming alcohol . Again at first I was grossed out but then I fell for the taste.
The idea of eating pork fat does make sense for people from colder climate but it doesn't at all in the warmer climate.
In fact the island where I currently live was under British occupation for several hundred years and obviously this influenced local eating habits. Instead of eating a lot of fish and light meat such as rabbit and goat all of the sudden the pork became staple meat source along with bacon and eggs for breakfast,sausages, baked beans etc.
After a century of this completely inappropriate diet in relation to climate the result is one of the highest rate of metabolic disorders in the EU such as diabetes, also highest rate of obesity. Before Brits showed up these diseases were unheard of locally.
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Doctors usually suggest a low-fat diet, which makes things generally worse as people get very hungry and eat foods that seemingly look healthy, but actually makes diabetes worse. Then they use all those low sugar substitutes which are full of poisons and still, full of "sugar"... To quote Al Sears, M.D., from "The Doctor's Heart Cure":
--- Quote ---[...] Will's doctor insisted he would have to take insulin shots for the rest of his life. Will delivered mail for a living and worked out at the gym regularly so he was not overly sedentary. He said, "I'm eating healthy. I follow all the recommendations." But as Will talked more, it was clear that the advise he had been given was to eat a low-fat diet. This is the advice most diabetics receive and is amazingly, the dietary advice of the American Diabetic Association. This is exactly the wrong advice for a diabetic. Fat in the diet does not cause diabetes, starches do. What's more, when you eat low-fat you will eat more of the real culprit-starches. Will followed the advice of his doctor and the American Diabetic Association by avoiding sugar and fat, but no starches. In fact, he ate starches at every meal: cereal for breakfast, pasta for lunch, and potatoes and bread with dinner.
Will was surprised to learn that his body converts all those starches he eats into sugars in his body, flooding his bloodstream with glucose. Will switched to a diet of foods low on the glycemic index, and added several herbs and nutritional supplements. In several months, he no longer needed insulin shots; he was not taken insulin in several years now and has no signs of diabetes. [...] his insulin receptors switches reset to their "pre-diabetic" setting. The Center for Health and Wellness has treated hundreds of patients like Will, and by following this approach these people were able to overcome their diabetes.
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The book is from 2004 and I still think a diet should include an acceptable quantity of whole rice, for example. But it is still interesting that he managed to cure so many diabetics with dietary changes which includes protein at every meal, regardless of blood type, including red meat almost every day... But it is important to have a source of meat which is "free-farmed", as most growers fatten their animals as quickly as possible by feeding them cheap grain and "feedstuff": grain, candy, meat scraps (even from sick animals)... Which can make the meat a quite an inflammatory one.
In general, fat has being blamed for so many diseases, but as for dietary foods go, the most damage had come from products like dairy and gluten. There should be more info about that available to people. But actually, those are particular the foods that are promoted in our society. Al Sears basically took the US Department of Agriculture's Food Pyramid, which is a formula for dietary disaster, and he turned it upside down after removing the most obvious evil stuff.
anothermagyar:
I have been reading a web-site of a Hungarian Psychologist, his name is Gabor Szendi, _www.tenyek-tevhitek.hu.
He has articles about physical and drug abuse of the psychiatric institution, about health, the medical "business world", how the healers became killers for money! Unfortunately he has it most in Hungarian language.
I read a long article about the cholesterol-myth, and how the medical community leading people astray to telling them not to eat fat!
Fat is a serious and very important part of our diet, without it we would die!
What kind of fat is the question, yes.
We know that, margarine well advertised, but it is a killer!
Meanwhile I researched on cholesterol, I found a Danish independent (He don't get paid by Big Pharma!!!) scientist MD, PhD
Uffe Ravnskov.
I'm delighted to share it with you.
--- Quote from: Uffe Ravnskov ---Here are the facts!
1 Cholesterol is not a deadly poison, but a substance vital to the cells of all mammals. There are no such things as good or bad cholesterol, but mental stress, physical activity and change of body weight may influence the level of blood cholesterol. A high cholesterol is not dangerous by itself, but may reflect an unhealthy condition, or it may be totally innocent.
2 A high blood cholesterol is said to promote atherosclerosis and thus also coronary heart disease. But many studies have shown that people whose blood cholesterol is low become just as atherosclerotic as people whose cholesterol is high.
3 Your body produces three to four times more cholesterol than you eat. The production of cholesterol increases when you eat little cholesterol and decreases when you eat much. This explains why the ”prudent” diet cannot lower cholesterol more than on average a few per cent.
4 There is no evidence that too much animal fat and cholesterol in the diet promotes atherosclerosis or heart attacks. For instance, more than twenty studies have shown that people who have had a heart attack haven't eaten more fat of any kind than other people, and degree of atherosclerosis at autopsy is unrelated with the diet.
5 The only effective way to lower cholesterol is with drugs, but neither heart mortality or total mortality have been improved with drugs the effect of which is cholesterol-lowering only. On the contrary, these drugs are dangerous to your health and may shorten your life.
6 The new cholesterol-lowering drugs, the statins, do prevent cardio-vascular disease, but this is due to other mechanisms than cholesterol-lowering. Unfortunately, they also stimulate cancer in rodents, disturb the functions of the muscles, the heart and the brain and pregnant women taking statins may give birth to children with malformations more severe than those seen after thalidomide.
7 Many of these facts have been presented in scientific journals and books for decades but are rarely told to the public by the proponents of the diet-heart idea.
8 The reason why laymen, doctors and most scientists have been misled is because opposing and disagreeing results are systematically ignored or misquoted in the scientific press.
9 The Benefits Of High Cholesterol
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There is more is his web-site: http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm
Bear:
I'm slowly reading the book 'The Cholesterol Hoax' by Sherry Rogers (about a 3rd of the way through) that goes in depth into some of the points you quoted. Statins lower cholesterol by blocking normal production of cholesterol in the liver.
--- Quote ---Statin drugs work by poisoning a liver enzyme that makes cholesterol. When the body makes cholesterol, it uses many pathaways but one major bottleneck is a rate-limiting enzyme in the liver called HMG COA reductase. The statin category of cholesterol-lowering prescription medications all work by turning off or poisoning this main enzyme that the liver uses to make cholesterol
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She goes pretty in depth into why a person should never take statins.
Also,
--- Quote --- The LDL cholesterol plasters cholesterol on to the arterial wall, but only if the LDL cholesterol is oxidized. LDL is only able to attach itself when it has sustained too much free radical damage from reactive oxygen species called free radicals
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Free radicals come from all the toxins inherent in daily living.
I'm finding the book full of good information if you are worried about cholesterol or interested in the topic. I have low HDL and the book has recommendations for individuals in that situation. Haven't tried them yet, but planning on exploring them.
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