A butter-loving reader posed the following question to me: Thanks for all the work you do. Any chance you could post something on the AGE content of butter? Does it make a difference if AGEs are endogenously or exogenously produced? Thank in advance. Suffice it to say he liked my answer. I’ll repeat it here, …
Fat and Cholesterol
John Meadows Gets Jacked with Liver, Whole Eggs, and Red Palm Oil, and Wins “Mr. Ohio”
The first article I ever wrote about nutrition was an article for the Fall, 2004 issue of Wise Traditions called “Vitamin A: The Forgotten Bodybuilding Nutrient,” in which I argued that bodybuilders should eat nutrient-dense foods rich in vitamin A such as liver and cod liver oil in order to boost protein utilization and testosterone …
Does Eating Fat Clog the Liver?
I have a new blog over at the Weston A. Price Foundation site: Does Eating Fat Clog the Liver?
Coconut Not Only Protects Your Liver From Alcohol — But From a Diet Deficient in Meat and Eggs Too!
As I pointed out in a previous blog, saturated fats like palm oil, beef tallow, cocoa butter, and MCT oil (a derivative of coconut oil) protect against alcohol-induced fatty liver disease in animals, whereas polyunsaturated oils like corn oil and fish oil promote it. In fact, animals can consume nearly 30 percent of their calories …
When the Brain Is Hungry For Cholesterol
Those of you who have spent much time perusing my web site know that cholesterol is the limiting factor for the formation of synapses, connections between neurons that form the basis of learning and memory. In fact, one of the reasons we learn better when we get enough sleep is because the brain ramps up …
Saturated Fat Is Not Associated With CVD, Evidence of Publication Bias
A recent meta-analysis in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition pooled together data from 21 unique studies that included almost 350,000 people, about 11,000 of whom developed cardiovascular disease (CVD), tracked for an average of 14 years, and concluded that there is no relationship between the intake of saturated fat and the incidence of heart …
Corn Oil, Not “High-Fat,” Causes Inflammation
According to a recent article on the Science Daily site, “High Fat Diet Increases Inflammation in the Mouse Colon,” a November 2009 study published by researchers from Rockefeller University showed that a diet “high in fat and low in fiber, vitamin D and calcium” triggered an inflammatory process that could lead to cancer in the …
Maternal Intake of “Saturated Fat” Causes Liver Disease — You Know, the Unsaturated Kind of Saturated Fat
According to a recent article on ScienceDaily, scientists have discovered that mothers who eat too much saturated fat during pregnancy will give their future child severe fatty liver disease once he or she becomes an adult. The use of words in this article like “mother,” “child,” and “adulthood” suggests that the researchers performed some type …
Will Eating Meat Make Us Die Younger?
A widely reported and blogged about study conducted by the National Institutes of Health, published Monday in the American Medical Association’s Archives of Internal Medicine, found that among over a half million followed from 1995 to 2005, those who reported eating the most meat were more likely to die than those who reported eating the …
The Total-to-HDL Cholesterol Ratio — What Does It Mean?
Someone recently forwarded to me two references that a high-level New Zealand professor had used to support recommendations against saturated fat and coconut oil. The references did not support the conclusion at all, but they did provide some interesting insight about the importance of the total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio and its dietary implications. Both of the …