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We are being lied to (perhaps explicably!) by doctors
and dieticians concerning FAT. This is unfortunate because in this
country we have an essential fatty acid deficiency which is epidemic in
proportion. Because essential fatty acid (EFAs) deficiencies can result
in virtually every disease afflicting a person, it is easy
to hide the true root of a disease's problem... and doctors can continue
to sell the hapless individual expensive, dangerous, and ineffective
pharmaceuticals a person doesn’t want or shouldn't need!
-You- must become semi-knowledgeable
about fats because what you don't know can provoke illness, even kill
you... or, at best (!) make you stupid. Here are just a few
of the lies about FAT addressed in
this paper:
- Saturated fat is bad.
- Unsaturated vegetable oil is
good.
- Margarine is more healthful
than butter.
- Coconut oil is bad.
- Canola oil is better than
olive oil.
- One can meet EFA requirements
through diet alone.
- (Recent lie) Trans-fatty acids
are now considered as bad as saturated fat.
- (Another recent lie) The American
Heart Association is concerned about your heart!
The following will answer the above misstatements of
fact and provide the reasons why we're being lied too...
Fats in
General
We -are-
fat. But I mean that in a good way... it is an absolutely essential
component in the make-up and construction of every cell in our body. It
-is- the cell actually! For the optimum performance of each
and every cell, the right kinds of the different kinds of fat are REQUIRED
(in ratio or a relationship to one another), as food. Presently this
country endures a pandemic of deficiency with regard to the
"right kinds" of essential fatty acids in the everyday diet. Allowed to
continue, this pandemic contributes the lion's share of responsibility to
the descending spiral of impaired bodily cells... or, obesity, miserable
illness, impaired cognition, and early death... presently
enjoyed by rank and file Americans! Knowledge regarding essential fatty
acids in (or not in!) our foods is key to realizing optimal
health, maximized intelligence, increased energy, and an expanded quality
of life!
Necessary Background!
[Read through it once so you'll know what to come back to!]
<<<REFER TO THE GRAPHIC AT BOTTOM OF PAGE>>>
Fatty acids (FAs) are a long chain of carbon
atoms, with or without two hydrogen atoms attached to each one. The chain
might have six to twelve carbon atoms (-medium- chain fatty
acids) or eighteen to twenty-two (-long- chain fatty
acids).
Concerning saturated fat, every carbon atom is
saturated with two hydrogen atoms, causing a straight chain
that packs together easily, compelling it to be solid at
room temperature. With -un- saturated fat, the chain is missing
one or more sets of hydrogen atoms, allowing it to bend,
resulting in a liquid at room temperature. Unsaturated fats
are either MONO unsaturated (one set of hydrogen atoms missing) or POLY
unsaturated (more than one set missing).
<OK... from here things get a little tense, for
awhile, but you don't have to get it on the first read, and it's the
unassailable support for contentions revealed in this paper with direct
impact on ~you~!
- Mono Unsaturated Fat
(olive oil, macadamia nut oil) is called omega-9, which means the first
double bond (resulting from the removal of two hydrogen atoms) is at the
ninth carbon atom from the omega "end" of the fatty acid chain (FA).
This single "double bond" (DB) configuration is very stable,
which means mono oils don't go rancid or turn toxic (turn
into lipid peroxide) very easily. Consequently, I consider
monounsaturated fat the only healthful food oil. Well except for
Coconut Oil covered further below.
- Poly Unsaturated Fat
is called either omega-6 (corn, soy, cottonseed, etc) or Omega-3 (flax
seed oil, Krill or fish oil) because at the sixth or the third carbon
atom is the first double bond. However, unlike the stable
mono oils, the poly configuration, with two DBs (omega-6) and
three DBs (Omega-3), creates instability due to unpaired
electrons. These more reactive oils go rancid and turn toxic easily.
Easily!
Prostaglandins (bear with me, you will
be a better person if you slog through this stuff!) -- These magical
hormone-like compounds are the catalyst for many, if not most, of
the critical bodily processes (everything from blood platelet sticky-ness
to sperm production to brain cell function) and are found in every
cell. Prostaglandins are tantamount to
super hormones that
control the hormones. There are two separate cascading pathways
(Omega-6 and Omega-3) that lead to numerous reactions that can be good,
bad, or both. There are loops, feedbacks, cancellations,
synergies, and roadblocks in these processes, making this an
evolving and convoluted fat -science-! Moreover, it is
important to understand these basics to appreciate
how we are being lied to!
Prostaglandins are produced in every cell
through different enzymes acting on EFAs! The most important
consideration is the number of DOUBLE BONDS (DBs) in the carbon chain
because that determines each step, and which fork,
in the path for it to take. This will determine, ultimately, which
protaglandin (good or maybe bad) will be activated. The series 1
and 3 prostaglandins reduce inflammation and are more stable and slow
moving -- these are kept in balance by series 2, which increases
inflammation etc, and is more reactive and high speed.
- Omega 6 pathway
--
This pathway (PW) starts with a two DB, eighteen carbon
FA, like corn oil. In the first step it is changed to a three DB fat
called gama-linolenic acid (GLA) by the enzyme Delta 6 Desaturase
(D6D). You can bypass the first step and enter the pathway here
by eating foods or supplements with GLA (seeds, nuts, borage oil, etc).
Next, the GLA is elongated with an enzyme to a twenty
carbon FA called dihomogama linolenic acid (DGLA). You can
enter the pathway here by eating foods rich in DGLA like liver
and organ meats. Now we are at a fork in the road. If the DGLA
does not encounter any further enzymes it will enter the beneficial
series 1 prostaglandin, which decreases inflammation and platelet
sticky-ness (just to name two out of dozens of positive effects).
However, if the DGLA encounters the D5D enzyme, it
will change from a 3 DB to a 4 DB called Arachidonic Acid (AA) commonly
associated with saturated animal fat. AA is the precursor to the series
2 prostaglandin which is generally considered bad because it
increases inflammation, platelet sticky-ness, blood pressure, etc.
However, this is a simplistic view, Series 2 is not bad, it is
just necessary.
For example, you would probably consider series 1 and 3
reducing platelet stickiness a good thing, but if you didn't have series
2 you would bleed out in a few minutes if scratched. So, it's all about
BALANCE. However, due to our diet of sugar and hydrogenated vegetable
oil (HVO) and a lack of omega-3, we don't activate the series 1 and 3
enough, and over-stimulate the series 2 resulting in too much
inflammation, platelet stickiness, etc. Series 2 is also used for rapid
response and stressful situations like childbirth, unlike the slower
plodding effects of series 3.
Because the PW can be entered here by eating AA rich
foods like butter, animal fat, organ meats, and egg yolks, dieticians
tell you to avoid these foods because of their supposed negative
prostaglandin reaction. This is only true; however, if your
saturated fat/AA consumption is excessive in relation to your
Omega 3 consumption (which is a completely different PW, but still very
much connected because they use the same desaturase/elongase enzymes!).
In fact, if your AA intake is remotely close to being in
balance with the other fatty acids, eating eggs, butter, and animal fat
is actually very beneficial. It makes the other fatty acids work even
better (synergy). But if your satfat/AA consumption is excessive you
can still get away with it if you make a couple of dietary changes
that dieticians don't
tell you about.... like eliminating sugar and HVO and adding
omega-3 to your diet. AA, just like Omega 3, is an important
constituent of the cell membrane. That's why mother's milk is rich in
AA...
- Omega 3 Pathway
--
This PW starts with a 3 DB, eighteen carbon chain FA,
called alpha linolenic acid (ALA) and is found in flaxseed, Hempseed and
green leafy vegetables. Then it is changed to a 4 DB FA by the same D6D
enzyme of the -other- pathway. Eventually it is elongated and changed
again to a 5 DB FA called, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). The pathway
can be entered here by eating EPA rich foods like cold water fish and
fish oil.
The D5D enzyme that produces EPA was also used by the
other pathway (Omega-6) to create AA, the precursor to a series 2 but
here it's used by the omega-3 pathway to do the opposite thing (series
3)! Interestingly, when the the D5D enzyme is in the presence of
the 3 DB Omega-6 FA and the 4 DB Omega-3 FA, it will always choose the
Omega 3, thus activating the series 3 prostaglandin! But, if there is
no Omega-3 (which the D5D prefers) then it has no choice but to
change the beneficial Omega-6, 3 DB to the -not- so beneficial 4 DB
(AA), the precursor to the series 2 prostaglandin, or that which
increases inflammation and platelet sticky-ness.
Because we get most of our AA through diet, we generally
don't need our bodies to manufacture more by converting Omega-6 DGLA to
AA, we would rather have the DGLA activate the series 1 prostaglandin.
So it's ironic that to maintain an efficient Omega-6 pathway, requires
less Omega-6 and more Omega-3. A portion of the EPA might continue down
the pathway and not take the series 3 exit, but instead be changed by
the D4D enzyme into the 6 DB docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). The pathway
can be entered here by consuming foods or supplements with DHA... human
milk, egg yolks, fish liver oil and organ meats. DHA is absolutely
essential for a fetus/baby's brain development.
Oddly
enough, this is why Mia Farrow (in Rosemary's Baby) felt compelled to
eat raw liver while carrying her baby.
Discussion Regarding Different FATS
(...and
well through the numbing stuff...)
- Saturated fats
-- There are ten (nine natural, one man-made {ALERT!})
types of saturated fats (SATFATS) that are unfortunately all lumped
together as being unhealthy, when in reality... ONLY MANMADE
HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL is, truly, bad 100% of the time.
We will only discuss the three major Satfat players, as that's where the
problem lies!
- Partially Hydrogenated
Vegetable Oil (pHVO) ...or Transfatty
Acid (TFA) <...heavy sigh!
Over 100 years ago pHVO/TFA was invented as a
cheap
way to feed the masses. Everywhere and in everything (to this day!),
this toxic non-food is cheap poly unsaturated oil (like corn oil) that
is partially saturated with hydrogen gas, turning it into a dark,
smelly, toxic sludge... that is then refined, bleached,
and deodorized (RBDed) into a form... remotely... possible for use.
They sell it to you as "margarine" or
vegetable lard. The various food industries love this crap
because it extends shelf life and has a high smoke point -- making it
good for baked goods and fast-food deep-fat frying. And, rather
predictably, it's cheap. Unfortunately this poison is
killing us -- it has the potential to cause, and certainly exacerbate,
virtually every disease affliction we endure, certainly heart disease
and cancer! Additionally, it suppresses our immune system and also
adversely effects the Omega-6 and 3 prostaglandin pathways that can
either cause inflammation or reduce it. HVO is actually incorporated
into the phospholipid membrane (the cell WALL) of every cell in your
body, causing the membrane to be less pliable, flexible and
permeable.
The cell, consequently, does
not adequately hold fluid or electrolytes, loses its ability to
communicate with other cells, and loses its ability to communicate
hormonally. Slow cell-death! Additionally, it does not bind with
insulin efficiently and causes a general lack of homeostasis, all
resulting in a sick/mean/depressed and FAT individual.
- Steric Acid Animal fat and
butter --
Unburnt animal Satfat is essential for
development and good health as long as it is in balance with the other
EFAs! If you never ate SATFAT your body would produce it anyway
because it is the superior form for energy storage... and a plethora of
other purposes!
SATFAT is stable with a fairly long shelf life, thus in
our body it protects other EFAs from becoming rancid. SATFAT also
improves the body's utilization of the other EFAs. There is a real
positive synergy here as long as everything is, reasonably, close to
being in balance. Interestingly, because we evolved occasionally
consuming excessive amounts of animal Satfat (...gorging at a carcass
before a saber tooth tiger came strolling by...) mother nature takes
these episodes of conspicuous consumption into consideration by
converting some of the Satfat 18 carbon chain (steric acid) into the
unsaturated fat eighteen carbon chain (oleic acid) which is the health
promoting mono-unsat fat (Omega-9) found in olive oil.
When satfat consumption is excessive as much as half of
it can be converted to Omega-9 by the Delta 9 desaturase (D9D) enzyme
which removes two hydrogen atoms at the ninth carbon atom. This is why
people that abuse the Atkins diet by consuming excessive Satfat
(moderate Satfat consumption is better) can still show a lipid profile
improvement (HDL up, LDL down). Unfortunately, this neat little
desaturase trick won't work if you consume pHVO and sugar, which blocks
the D9D enzyme!
b. Coconut oil (Lauric Acid
or MCT's) --
This medium chain triglycerides (12 carbon atoms) is
found in coconut and mother's milk. This
misunderstood and magical
stuff should be in a class all its own because even
though it is a saturated fat, it doesn't act like one. This is because
being only 12 atoms long it can be easily broken down by saliva and
stomach acid without needing your, sometimes scarce, enzymes. That is
why it is in mother's milk because an infants desaturase enzyme system
doesn't work very well, making long chain FAs hard to digest.
Medium chain fatty acids (MCFA or MCT) do not need to be
bundled into lipoproteins and deposited into the blood stream for
further processing! Consequently, it can't make you fat or stick to
your arteries because it never enters the bloodstream! Instead it
goes straight to the liver and is able to zip quickly through the
mitochoandria membrane, to provide INSTANT energy! The long chain FAs
take a long time to break down because they require enzymes that may
have already been used up, so the fat becomes FAT... and not ENERGY.
Medium chain FAs or medium chain triglycerides (MCT) can
help you lose weight
through thermo-genesis. An analogy can be made with a wood fire. Long
chain FAs are like throwing wet logs on the fire, but medium chain FAs
are more like throwing on gas soaked newspapers. Consequently, you not
only get a big burst of energy, but the aforementioned wet-logs (long
chain FAs) are also consumed by the fire and heat. So, all things being
equal -- you lose weight. Medium chain FAs also improve the Omega 6
prostaglandin pathway, causing Omega 6 to accumulate in the tissue where
it belongs even when levels of EFA are low.
- Unsaturated Fats
-- There are two major categories of UNSAT Fats. Monounsaturated and
poly unsaturated. Dieticians will incorrectly tell that they are
both healthy because both are liquid at room temperature. However, only
mono is always good. Only some kinds of "poly" are good some of the
time. Unsaturated Fats can also be divided into two other major
categories. Food Oils (olive, corn, canola, safflower, etc.) and
medicinal oils (flax seed, primrose, borage, black currant,
Fish/Krill). Food oils are never all one kind of oil. They are always
a combination of mono and poly oils at different ratios with a little
SATFAT thrown in. Some of these ratios are fairly dramatic, for
example, olive oil is 76% mono and only 8% poly, where safflower oil is
only 10% mono and 80% poly. Most of the other poly food oils are about
20% mono and 65% poly. Medicinal oils are also various combinations of
the 3 FAs. (mono, poly & satfat)
- Monounsaturated oils
(Omega-9) Olive oil (76% mono) Macadamia nut oil (80% mono - the best
but very expensive) Canola Oil (at a low 54% mono it is slightly
misleading to call it a "true" mono unsaturated oil...it has too much
Poly) Omega-9 is heart healthful for several reasons, the most
significant being the reduction in low density lipoproteins (LDL), and
due to the stable mono DB characteristic, it does not go rancid
easily, requiring further RBDing to cover the rancid smell, and it
doesn't readily turn toxic when heated. So use olive oil for
everything especially frying and baking.
- Polyunsaturated oils
(Omega-6 and Omega-3)
i.
Omega 6 polyunsaturated oil, both food and medicinal
1.
FOOD OIL (2 DB Linoleic acid [LA]) Corn, soy, safflower,
peanut, grapeseed, cottonseed oils, sunflower, etc.. Commercially
processed polyunsaturated food oils get hot even when cold pressed.
So before they are sold to you they are deodorized to cover the rancid
smell! And because they have already started turning into the
toxin lipid peroxide, there is no situation where these oils are
considered healthful! ...Even though dieticians will tell you
otherwise... ...Do you remember 15 or 20 years ago, the safflower
oil campaign... where it was touted to be more healthful than other oils
because it was very light in color and taste and had the lowest percent of
SATFAT at only 7% as opposed to corn oil, for example at 17%. Now
we know that safflower is by far the worst of all because it has the
highest percent of poly (80%), which means that 80% of that bottle
of oil is already rancid and toxic when brought home! In all
fairness there is one beneficial product derived from safflower oil called
conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). Data is fairly new, so the jury is still
out concerning its beneficial effects, but it appears to have significant
cancer fighting properties and might help a little with weight loss. If
you want to try CLA buy a top quality, higher priced capsule. The cheapy
no name brand might not be carefully refined -- which is critical for all
polyunsat oils.
2.
MEDICINAL OIL (gamalinolenic acid [GLA]) This Omega-6 FA is
found naturally in seeds, nuts and legumes or in processed medicinal oils,
like black currant, borage, primrose & a small amount in hemp seeds &
hemp oil. Because of their highly reactive nature (3 DBs - the more
double bonds the more unstable), they must be kept cold through
refrigeration while pressing. Cold pressing alone won't do because even
though no heat is added, it still gets too hot under pressure. Medicinal
oils must also be refrigerated after opening. GLA is healthy only within
a fairly narrow window. If you consume even moderate amounts of omega 6
(corn oil, etc) and don't consume any (or very little, if any) Omega 3,
then the medicinal oils rich in GLA could actually be harming you. First,
this is because in order to reap the beneficial effects of Omega-3, the
ratio of Omega-6 to Omega-3 should be about 4 to 1 or less.
However, most Americans are closer
to an out of whack 20 to 1 ratio! Now if, on top of that, you
take primrose oil for the GLA you are actually making the ratio worse
because you are not only adding 9% GLA, but the 72% Omega 6 (LA) that is
also in primrose oil. Second, after the GLA is converted to DGLA it will
not take the desired prostaglandin "fork in the road," but will
likely take the undesired prostaglandin series 2 "fork." It would not
take this undesired path if you had consumed enough Omega-3 to use -up-
all the D5D! However, if you did not consume any additional Omega-6, and
did consume adequate Omega-3 (resulting in a ratio of two or three to
one), then you could take medicinal Omega-6 and still wind up about 4 to
1. At the proper ratio, prostaglandins of the Omega-3 and Omega-6 reduce
inflammation, platelet stickiness, blood pressure & allergies. But when
OUT OF BALANCE, the beneficial Omega-3 pathway never gets going and now
the GLA, in the Omega-6 pathway, will probably take the WRONG fork in the
road (series 2) that causes inflammation, etc..
ii.
Omega 3 Polyunsaturated medicinal Oils --
1.
Alpha-linolenic acid (ALA, 3 double bonds) Ground Flax
seed/Flaxseed oil, Hemp seeds/Hemp oil and green leafy vegetables. Flax
seed is mother natures richest source of plant derived Omega-3 (3 DBs)
Also called the Parent Omega-3 because it can give birth to the
pair of superior EFAs found in fish/krill oil -- EPA (5 DBs) and DHA (6
DBs). Unfortunately, less than 15% of the ALA is converted to EPA and DHA.
If a person were opposed to eating animals it might be difficult for them
to get adequate EPA and DHA from plant Omega-3 only (ALA). If they
want to achieve super-healthiness, they would also consume
supplemental EPA and DHA. I can't recommend dietary EPA because cold
water fish has too much lead and mercury, but according to Consumer
Reports there are numerous brands of fish oil capsules that meet the
potency requirements and are pretty much toxin free. I would not only
pick a moderately priced well known name brand, but it should say
specifically that any toxins have been filtered out. You could probably
meet all your omega 3 requirements with fish oil; however a combination of
Krill or fish oil and 1 or 2 tablespoons of freshly ground flax seed (
about 3000 mg ALA) is superior to fish oil only... This is because: one,
flax seed is a very cheap way to consume large amounts of ALA that can
eventually be incorporated into the phospholipid membrane (cell wall) of
every cell in your body, to keep it pliable and healthy. Two, in order for
DGLA (along the Omega-6 pathway) to take the beneficial series one
prostaglandin, and not the undesirable series two, it must not contact any
D5D enzyme. Consequently, you need ALA cascading down the other PW
(Omega-3) to use up all the D5D in the conversion of ALA to EPA. Three,
you are assured that the small percentage of EPA and DHA that comes from
ALA is toxin free and is mother nature's highest quality EPA. Four, flax
seed has lignans that are converted by the gut into a pair of powerful
cancer fighters. Flax seed has 100 times the amount of lignans found in
other plants. Flax has mucilage that protects us from toxins and absorbs
starch resulting in lower blood glucose and insulin. Five, the ground
flax seed coat is the Cadillac of soluble and insoluble fibers. Six, some
ailments like bowel disease actually respond better to ALA than EPA.
However, EPA is better for most of the biggies like stroke and heart
disease. In all fairness, ALA does have a couple of shortcomings
other than the aforementioned ALA to EPA conversion rate: One, people
with diabetes, likely, will not be able to convert ALA, so they would
definitely need supplemental EPA/ DHA. Two, just like most babies, some
adults have an inefficient desaturase enzyme system, so they don't readily
convert ALA to EPA. Three, with the advent of refined polyUNSAT oil,
hydrogenated vegetable oil, and refined sugar, Omega-3 ALA and Omega-6
GLA cascading pathways can be blocked. The polyunsat oil (Omega-6 LA)
overpowers the Omega-3 by changing the desired 4 to 1 ratio to an
undesirable 15 or 20 to 1 ratio. Also pHVO and sugar inhibit the D6D
enzyme which is the first step down the pathway for both Omega-6 AND
Omega-3. So even with adequate amounts of EFAs , they won't do you much
good if you load up on Twinkies (the fluffy white crap is hydrogenated
vegetable lard, whipped with sugar.)
2.
EPA (Eicosapentaenoic Acid , 5
double bonds) is found in cold water fish and krill/fish oil. EPA (with
DHA below) are the superior forms of Omega-3. This is because the 5 DBs
in EPA make it the precursor to the beneficial series 3 prostaglandins
which reduces inflammation and platelet stickiness. EPA does not always
take the series 3 exit. Sometimes it continues down the pathway, and
after a slow laborious process it turns into the brain food for babies DHA.
Because this conversion process is not terribly efficient it's recommended
that you take supplemental DHA (fish/krill oil), eat several raw egg
yolks every day (soft scramble the egg whites to convert the glycoprotein
that binds to Biotin) , or like Mia, eat raw organ meat (but I wouldn't
recommend it).
3.
DHA ( Docosahexaenoic
Acid, 6 double bonds) Not only can you make DHA out of EPA, but if you
consume dietary DHA (human milk, egg yokes, caviar, or organ meats) the
pathway can magically go in reverse and convert (or reconvert!) the 6
double bond DHA (from either source: dietary or manufactured from EPA)
into (or back into!) the 5 double bond EPA! All EFAs are important, but
DHA is ESSENTIAL for development and function of the brain -- that is why
pregnant women, nursing mothers, babies over four months old & old
people (and everybody else for that matter) should daily consume several
raw egg yolks or soft poached eggs. Soft scrambled whites (in olive oil
or butter... NEVER margarine). And to be completely safe, also take
supplemental DHA.
4.
Which One - Krill or Fish Oil ? Both have the magical Omega-3's (EPA &
DHA) but fish oil gram per gram has much more of both & it is considerable
cheaper than Krill Oil...so why use Krill Oil ? Krill is rich in the
natural antioxidant Astaxanthin, (not found in fish oil) that not only
protects you but also protects the sensitive Fatty Acids (EPA & DHA) from
oxidation. Also, supposedly the EPA & DHA are better absorbed from Krill
Oil.
>>>...End of Tedious (but necessary) Stuff...<<<
..Now that you are an -expert- on fats (no kidding!),
lets look briefly at the craven lies
Doctors/dieticians perpetuate...
- [Lie Number 1]
-- Saturated Fat is Bad! The only SATFAT that's
unhealthful all the time is pHVO/Transfatty acids. It is a
man-made non-food (...invented to cheaply feed disrespected poor
people) that homo Erectus never encountered, in
a million or so years of tedious evolution. He did; however, evolve
consuming SATFAT from animals (steric acid) and coconuts (lauric
acid), so his liver and digestive system knew exactly how to process
it! If animal fat is in balance with Omega-6 and Omega-3, then both
the path ways are more efficient! Ironically, pHVO has the
OPPOSITE effect because it and refined sugar block the
production of necessary enzymes. If your diet covers Omega-3 by
including freshly ground flax seed, the Omega-6 is always covered
because it is found in every form of food (to include fruit), in fact
you should try to get Simple Omega-6 (LA) out of your diet (but maybe
keep the Complex Omega-6, GLA) to be as close to the desired 4 to 1
ratio as possible! Then, you not only can, but you
SHOULD... eat several eggs every day and a considerate amount
of lean meat (avoiding processed/cured meat and burnt animal fat).
They tell you all SAT fat is bad because they want you to avoid
potentially healthful fat (steric acid) so they can slip in their
totally unhealthful, cheap kind of satfat, HVO! Evil!
Habitually, when warned about SATFAT, their examples are butter,
animal fat, and coconut oil -- but they rarely (if ever!) mention
HVO! Sometimes, they might even include a warning about
"trans-fatty acids (TFAs)"; however, they don't bother to tell you
HVOs are -pure- TFAs! This is because prior to mid 2003
TFAs were not listed on food labels, but HVO was! For years, I
thought that hydrogenated Vegetable Oil was healthful because it was “vegetable
oil,” when in reality HVO is never healthful -- but
SatFat can be healthful. Real irony -there-!
- [Lie Number 2]
-- Polyunsaturated Oils, much like monounsaturated oil are good for
you because both are liquid at room temperature.
WRONG! Even if poly-unsat
oil was not rancid/toxic and deodorized when you brought it home, it
would still be unhealthful because it doesn't take much to screw up
the aforementioned 4 to 1 ratio! Also polyunsaturated oil
dramatically increases your chances of developing cancer (as much as 7
-times- as likely) -- mono-unsat oil has the opposite
effect. And 75% of the "stuff" sticking to your arteries is
oxidized Poly food oil like Soy & Corn.
- [Lie Number 3]
-- Margarine, because it is 100% vegetable oil is more healthful than
butter, which has cholesterol. Wrong!
How many decades have we heard this lie. Margarine is HVO (actually
it is pHVO), and is a toxic and foreign substance to our liver.
Butter is real food that works in synergy with the other EFAs.
- [Lie Number 4]
-- Coconut oil is bad.
Wrong! We have been
told for decades that Coconut oil is bad because it is 80 or
90 percent SATFAT, neglecting to tell you that it is not a long chain
FA but a medium chain FA that is actually HEALTHFUL! To make popcorn
in the 50s and 60s most theatres used coconut oil SATFAT (that came
from the Philippines) even though HVO was cheaper! It tastes
better! So, the (...none dare call them EVIL...) HVO *people* set out
to destroy the coconut oils tenuous toehold in this country by
convincing the public that it was heart unhealthful! And even today
you still see foods advertising "no tropical oils"! Because the
Philippines is a poor country, they could not afford to fight the
onslaught of the powerful HVO industry. Also, would you believe the
research results that showed that coconut oil was bad for your heart,
was surreptitiously conducted using “hydrogenated” coconut oil, not
pure unrefined coconut oil -- there are truly some evil lying bastards
in this world!!!
- [Lie Number 5]
Canola oil is even MORE healthful than olive oil because like olive
oil it is a monounsaturated oil, but it is better because it has half
the SATFAT (7% compared to 16%) and is 7% Omega 3 compared to 0% Omega
3 in olive oil. Wrong!
Wrong!Wrong!
i.
Canola is just -barely mono-unsat at 54% compared to olive oil at
76%! However, more importantly this means that canola has 30 to 37% poly-unsat
oil to go rancid/toxic during processing as opposed to olive oil at only
8% poly-unsat.
ii.
“Half the SATFAT” means exactly NOTHING because, as you have now
learned, moderate amounts of natural unburnt SATFAT is actually good
for YOU!
iii.
The 7% Omega-3 is a blatant red herring because being commercially
processed, the highly reactive Omega-3 has already turned toxic and
rancid. In all fairness, for more money on the web you can find
unrefined canola oil that was kept cool during processing so the Omega-6
and Omega-3 oils might not be rancid, but you still have to contend
with too much Omega-6 screwing up the healthful 4 to 1 ratio.
Additionally, unrefined canola oil must also be kept refrigerated after
opening.
- [Lie Number 6]
You can meet your EFA and nutritional requirement without
supplementation through a diet that follows the "Food Guide Pyramid."
WRONG to the nth! Here are just a few things wrong with that
fatuous proclamation!
i.
If you meet your EFA requirements by eating fish you are consuming
too much lead and mercury. So you must supplement with flax seed and or
fish/krill oil.
ii.
Consuming poly-Unsat cooking oil (allowed by the pyramid) will
negate most beneficial effects of the (raw by the way...
heat destroys the good stuff!) cold water fish you ate in the preceding!
iii.
Consuming pHVO (smarmily allowed by the Pyramid) will
inhibit the utilization of EFAs. Oh yeah... additionally? It will
kill you!
iv.
Sugar -- (allowed by the pyramid) inhibits EFAs and suppresses your
immune system.
v.
Trace minerals have been leeched from our soil so they are not in
our food.
- [Lie Number 7]
HVO/TFA is now (July 03) considered as heart
unhealthful as SatFat... WAIT A MINUTE! Don’t put pHVO and SATFAT on
equal footing!!! They have ALWAYS known pHVO is infinitely more
harmful than SatFat on its worst day -- in fact,
un-burnt saturated fat (like pure butter) actually works in synergy
with the other EFAs (like Omega 3).
So why, for all these
decades, has the FDA set guidelines for SatFat but not HVO/TFA?
And WHY did it require tremendous pressure from the masses to start
putting TransFat amounts on food labels? Especially when you consider
the following:
i.
SatFat raises HDL (good stuff) -- HVO lowers it.
ii.
SatFat does not inhibit insulin binding -- HVO does.
iii.
SatFat does not increase C-reactive proteins which causes arterial
inflammation -- HVO does!
iv.
SatFat supports the immune system -- HVO interferes.
v.
SatFat when incorporated into the cell wall of every cell in your
body makes it permeable, flexible, and healthy -- HVO makes it stiff
and inefficient at removing waste and absorbing nutrients.
By putting TFA/HVO and Saturated
Fat on equal footing, they hope to trick you into thinking that if you cut
out either one... it’s the same thing! They hope
you cut out meat and eggs so you can have your Twinkies! Mmmmmmm!
Fluffy sweet goodness! Not!
- [Lie Number 8]
The American Heart Association is concerned about your
HEART? Pause for laughter! It’s not just doctors and dieticians that
lie, but why is it done by seemingly altruistic organizations like the
AHA? Simple -- they exist only because
you
get sick! Let’s look at a very recent AP/ Newspaper article
(July 2003) for proposed FDA dietary guidelines by the American Heart
Association. Look at the not so subtle obfuscation in the following
graphic from the newspaper article:
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i.
Top right under trans fatty acid... it warns you about Hydrogenated
Vegetable oil in food like beef pork and lamb -- next, under other
foods it lists butter and milk. Then in the -next-
paragraph in explains that the hydrogenation process solidifies liquid
oils. The only problem is that beef, pork, lamb, butter, and milk
contain NO hydrogenated
vegetable oil (and only the most insignificant amount of
natural trans fat, of course natural transfat is very good for you)!
The next thing on the list is vegetable shortening, which is the first
legitimate source of trans-fat mentioned here; however, it elects to
not mention the most evil and insidious source... MARGARINE!
Here is the way I would compile the list (this is in descending order
of evilness): Margarine (most evil, but it's ~all~ bad!), vegetable
shortening, all deep fried fast foods (like French fries and donuts),
any sweet fluffy white crap (like in Oreos and Twinkies), or any
commercially baked or fried snack foods (...veritably everything else
processed by Man that you used to think was healthful -- like 95% of
commercial bread and 99% of commercial peanut butter!)!
ii.
Top left under Omega 3 FAs... it lists fish first, but doesn't warn
you about mercury levels or recommend a toxic free alternative like
ground flax seed and quality fish oil. Also, isn't it
funny how they list canola oil with a measly 7% Omega 3 (that’s
already probably rancid) ahead of Flax Seed oil at 58% Omega 3
(that won’t be rancid, if freshly ground). Why is it listed LAST?!?
...Verily,
it looks like the American Heart Association is only doing what it can
to keep you confused and sick...
The only conclusion I can draw is that through
lies, half truths, and misguiding generalizations, Doctors and
Dieticians prop up unhealthful industries (HVO/Sugar) while demonizing
Healthful products (Coconut oil/Eggs)... but WHY? Could it be
they want to keep you sick, or that they tacitly endorse these
dangerously evil products because of the funding contributed by
powerful corporations to their schools and institutions? ...You
think? But wait! Isn't the egg industry powerful, too?
Yes, but doctors have always felt it necessary
to poo-poo eggs to keep the myth alive that there is a direct
correlation between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol when, in
fact, there is no such thing! Why?
...To keep you on expensive cholesterol lowering
drugs for the rest of an increasingly miserable life! What else
fits? But, more importantly, they can hide the real cause of your
illness as a result of these products (HVO and sugar) by blaming
something else like the demonized fat and cholesterol. This way, not
only do they sell you harmful cholesterol lowering drugs that you
don't need, but by hiding the real cause... they can keep you sick (on
the HVO precipitating your need for drugs!) for some long-term
fleecing! Isn't it ironic that HVO and sugar, neither of
which contain cholesterol, WILL actually cause an adverse serum
cholesterol reaction? Butter and eggs, on the other hand, both of
which DO contain cholesterol, generally, do NOT cause an adverse
response! In fact, if you make a couple of other dietary adjustments,
you will show a positive change in your lipid profile! This
was verified in a recent study reported by the AMA showing the high
fat and protein/low carbohydrates ATKIN's diet, actually provoked a
substantial RISE in HDL with a reduction in LDL, Cholesterol and
trans-fatty acids, compared to the "Food Pyramid"
which is heavy into bread, cereal, and pasta, and is hugely
duplicitous in its own right! Further proof is the positive
cholesterol numbers found with the Mediterranean diet, which is high
in fat, or the lower incidence of heart disease in France where they
put gobs of -real- butter in EVERYTHING!
Who -are- we?
I have explained the science behind the “the way
it is”; however, to understand why it ~is~ that way you must
understand who ~we~ are. Genetically and physiologically we are not
-anything- that modern homo Sapien Sapien was or is subjected
to in history. Nothing we’ve done for tens of thousands of years has
had any appreciable influence on our (...very peculiar!) genetic
make-up. Who we ~really~ (physically) are... is early homo Erectus
and homo Habilis (the not so erect guy who preceded Erectus) millions
of years ago.
For the first million or so years of evolution
you and I were hunter-gatherers on the African plains, initially
concentrated around the Great Rift. Whatever homo Erectus did to
~his~ body we should try to do the same. I realize he had to walk
long distances in search of food, whereas we can just drive to the
market; however, what this means is that we also should walk, jog,
and exercise every day, even though we think we don’t have to. Also,
I’m sure that every month, or so, Erectus had to go a few days without
eating because hunting and scavenging can be a hit or miss endeavor.
Again, what -this- means is that -we- would be a lot healthier if
-we- would fast one or two days every month, even though we don’t have
to. Fasting detoxifies the body, gives our liver and digestive tract
a rest, and if you periodically (like maybe every six months) fast
four or five consecutive days, your body will actually switch into
“repair-mode” and accelerate the healing of damaged tissue and
organs.
You see, Erectus did not have a choice in these
matters, but you do. If you choose to take full advantage of all
modern life has to offer by never exercising, eating man-made toxic
garbage, and ignoring your toxic environment as you surround yourself
with it, then don’t sit there wondering why you are so sick and
miserable all of the freaking time! It all comes down to ~you~.
Let’s look at the evolution of homo
Erectus. If you don't believe in evolution, just stick in "Adam and
Eve" instead of "homo Erectus" because most of my conclusions would
still be applicable. This is because, as far as I can tell, Adam and
Eve started out on square one with no technology. In other words,
they were hunter/gatherers:
- Did he consume saturated fat?
Yes, he did. He would risk his life to chase a big
cat away from a carcass. He would also eat coconuts with lots of
good SatFat.
- Did he consume hydrogenated
vegetable oil. NO! HVO or pHVO was invented by modern man,
and being a non-food, our liver is revolted by it. To be
correct, we eat pHVO (partially hydrogenated) - HVO (completely
hydrogenated) is like candle wax BUT *they* are figuring out how to
use it in candy, etc.
- Did he consume massive
quantities of rancid/toxic (RBDed) poly unsaturated cooking oil.
NO. He got all of the "undamaged" omega-6 he needed in seeds,
nuts, and legumes grown in soil rich in all the trace minerals.
Also his omega-6 was high in the more "Complex" Omega-6, GLA, not
the "Simple" cheap, toxic, crap Omega-6, LA.
- Did he consume Omega-3 fatty
acids. Yes he did. Early man first appeared on the shores
of the Great African Rift, which at the time was a huge inlet sea.
So, for most of his early development, he existed by scavenging the
shallows and tide pools where he had a fairly steady diet of quality
protein from sea food containing Omega 3. These brain foods like
EPA, DHA, and AA contributed to early man’s big brain development.
- Did his water and food contain
all 70+ trace-elements. Yes, it did. Today; however,
because of over- farming, the land has been leached of many
trace-minerals. Dieticians/doctors will tell you we are not
trace-mineral deficient. However, pick any one of several web sites
that show mineral composition of the soil in various parts of the
country, and see for yourself. Remember, artificial fertilizer
generally only replaces 3 elements! It only takes 3 to look
beautiful...it only takes about 9 for the plant to be very healthy
BUT it takes 70 or 80 for us humans.
- Did he consume eggs? Yes,
he did. He ate every egg that he could get his hairy hands on. The
egg is one of mother nature’s most bio-available, highly digestible,
nutrient rich, prepackaged little food nuggets imaginable.
Additionally! Egg protein is even superior to fish protein!
There is one caveat - we now know it is better to
separate the white & yolk so you can consume the yolk raw to protect
the sensitive Omega-3's from heat but then soft scramble the whites
to convert a glycoprotein they contain, that binds to biotin or take
a big dose of biotin with raw egg whites.
- Did he consume carbonated
soda? NO! Sodas are an evil scourge -- they leach minerals
from bones and destroy valuable stomach acid, causing undigested
food to play havoc with your gut which can result in a plethora of
diseases!
- Did he consume Tums, Prevacid,
Tagamint, or Nexium. NO! Contrary to what doctors tell you
and what pop culture reflects, we do not have an epidemic of too
much stomach acid! In fact, quite the opposite is true, especially
the older we get (75% of the people over 50 have too little stomach
acid). I want to scream every time I hear a doctor advise that TUMS
is a good source of calcium! Antacids are generally calcium
carbonate. This is a form that is difficult to assimilate because
the carbonate destroys stomach acid which is required to absorb the
calcium. Also, inorganic salts like carbonate, oxide, and phosphate
are the wrong electrical charge for good absorption.
- Did he consume burnt animal fat
-- NO! Cooking food did not appear until much later. the
first couple of million years or so early humans ate everything raw
(that is why Mia was eating the liver raw!). Today it would
generally not be practical or safe to eat raw meat; however, you
should not overcook -any- form of food -- in particular extra well
done fried or charbroiled meat creates one of the most dangerous of
the free radicals HCA (hetero cyclic amines).
- Did he grind wheat and bake
bread? NO! Bread making did not appear until the
Sumerians. Our modern diet, heavy in refined carbos, is a major
cause of our health problems. Again, the vindication of the Atkin’s
diet indicates this. Additionally, at the very start of the 21st
Century a new free radical was discovered called
Acrylamides. This ubiquitous toxin is created
when the surface area of carbohydrate foods are heated enough to
turn them toasty brown. Things like bread crust, crackers,
potato-chips, french-fries and cereals (imagine how much toasted
surface area is in a bowel of cornflakes or the "Breakfast of
Champions." Eat toast and you ARE toast!
- Did he consume milk and dairy?
NO to the nth! Almost every variety of human on Earth,
except Caucasians, has an intolerance to dairy. And even among us
Anglo Saxons there is a high percentage of lactose intolerance.
Milk is an unhealthy and ineffective way to try and get calcium. We
would be amazed at how many health problems in children (like
allergies, rashes, ear infections, coughs/colds and other
respiratory problems) would just disappear if we took away the milk,
sugar, and cereal and replaced it with eggs, meat, and vegetables.
- Did he consume refined sugar.
NO! And neither should you. Use stevia, the zero glycemic,
all natural sweetener from South America. If you are a parent, and
you let a doctor put your child on Ritalin without first exploring a
sugar free diet, then, after they are put on Ritalin you continue to
let them have cokes, pop tarts, and sugar smacks... there is likely
a special place in hell just for you! Kids don't need drugs! They
need good non-processed food!
- Did he consume caffeine and
alcohol. No, I’m afraid not. Though, a glass of dry, dark
red wine, every night, is very healthful. It’s high in
anti-oxidants, raises HDL, and aids digestion. Moreover, if you do
all of the healthful things we have discussed, things like avoiding
all sugar and foods processed by insentient man, then I think you
deserve a cup of coffee or a glass of wine!
In conclusion, you are now,
officially, an expert on FATS, OILS, and EVOLUTION [g]. -- use this
knowledge in good health. Remember these famous words: “That thing
that you love so much, likely does not love you back...” Which means
that it does not take much of a reason for virtually -any-
organization, group, cause, or institution to smoke you like a cheap
cigar while they urinate on your leg and tell you it's raining.
I am one exception. I not only do NOT have an
axe to grind, but I spend my own money to help people I don’t even
know. And my reasons are not entirely altruistic. I just want
to stick it back to the scurrilous multinationals and soulless
corporations that erode our health and the quality of our lives for a
momentary gain. ...So maybe I do have an axe to grind, but
it’s not about me making MONEY. Be that as it may, the reader makes
the gain.
Well, be!
Alan Graham can be contacted at (334) 774-0395
[E-Mail --
alan068@centurytel.net] And will debate the medical
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