Food Study - Fats not Carbs
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GoRun2
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Some of you may have seen this food study mentioned in the news. I thought some of you might be interested or have some additional thoughts on it.
Essentially:
• It involved 135.000 people in multiple countries for 7 years.
• You live longer if you don’t eat low fat, eat your fat, 35% of your daily diet calories.
• If you have less than 3% saturated fat per day, your risk of dying goes up. (Saturated fat is in meat. Less in chicken, fish, nuts and oil. Current guidelines are less than 10% a day.)
• You don’t live longer if you eat 6-8 servings of fruits and vegetables vs 3-4. More is not better. Do eat 3 -4 a day
• Don’t eat sugar or refined processed carbs
• Eat fruit, nuts and beans.
Still a lot of debate about what to eat. Many experts say that this study doesn’t provide enough answers but will influence further studies as they .
Your thoughts?
Essentially:
• It involved 135.000 people in multiple countries for 7 years.
• You live longer if you don’t eat low fat, eat your fat, 35% of your daily diet calories.
• If you have less than 3% saturated fat per day, your risk of dying goes up. (Saturated fat is in meat. Less in chicken, fish, nuts and oil. Current guidelines are less than 10% a day.)
• You don’t live longer if you eat 6-8 servings of fruits and vegetables vs 3-4. More is not better. Do eat 3 -4 a day
• Don’t eat sugar or refined processed carbs
• Eat fruit, nuts and beans.
Still a lot of debate about what to eat. Many experts say that this study doesn’t provide enough answers but will influence further studies as they .
Your thoughts?
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Well our risk of dying is 100%. Just sayin. Studies are pretty much anecdotal in nature and subject to various vagaries. I think most folks believe and have some evidence to support it that when you eat a balanced diet, consume perhaps a bit less saturated fat, AND are active more than the minimal 10,000 steps or equivalent , you may increase your days on this planet.OK I would say that some saturated fat isn't evil. Sometimes even a lot is OK too. We do need some essential fatty acids (the old "healthy oils) to manufacture skin,nervous tissue cell membranes etc which we cannot do from saturated fat but only from certain unsaturated fats .
Pulling out bits and pieces like just looking at fat or just looking at sugar or just looking at veggies or just looking at gym stuff kinda misses the point and leads to many debates.
Trust me there are folks who live in the Gobi Desert for a very very long time. Yes as some have migrated to the city and hence become more sedentary there individual life expectancies have dropped a bit. It's certainly not all about fat. They do in fact eat a lot of dairy and saturated fat as nomads.
The other thing in the studies is that we don't always not what other changes the demographic studied may do like active lifestyle in addition to diet.
OK I don't eat a large amount of saturated fat daily but will enjoy some when I do.
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