| Holiday's Fat, Good Fat Or Bad Fat? |  |
© By Lena Sanchez
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 life 8 years ago and is committed to helping
others do the same in all areas of life. Editor of
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