Once upon a time, sucrose was the main ingredient in the diet of lab rats, but now starch is used. The government thought it knew what type of nutrition rats needed, so it recommended purified diets for the sake of science. Then, the rats started getting diseases, so they started tweaking the purified diets. Sound …
Vegetable Oils and PUFA
Does Your Liver Look Like an Eskimo’s Dinner? Fatty Liver is a Silent Epidemic
Does your liver look like this? All those white bubbles are fat droplets. I’m busier than a bumblebee right now, so unfortunately the high-fructose corn syrup post is going to have to wait till Tuesday. Today I’ll make a quick post about fatty liver disease. Someone on the Facebook version of this blog posed the …
Precious Yet Perilous — Understanding the Essential Fatty Acids
My new article in the current Fall Wise Traditions is already up online, unexpectedly soon, and you can read it here: Precious Yet Perilous — Understanding the Essential Fatty Acids It’s jam-packed full of important information but is lighter, shorter, and easier to read than my PUFA Report Part I, is updated with a little …
Dr. Campbell Warns Vegetarians About the Dangers of Plant Fat
Interestingly enough, a top-ranking Google Video in a search for “China Study,” posted five years ago, shows Dr. T. Colin Campbell, author of The China Study, warning vegetarians about the dangers of plant fat. Here’s the lower-ranking YouTube version, since I’m having trouble embedding the Google version: There are two interesting parts within the above …
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?
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 …