High fat diets have been targeted as unhealthy and a serious cause of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart attacks and strokes for over 30 years now. Lately however, there has been great dispute over if this is actually true or not.
A new study from the University of Virginia School of Medicine may shed some light on this issue. And it’s probably not exactly what you’d think.
Researchers took two groups of mice and fed them either a high fat diet or low fat diet. After only six weeks (about 10% of mice’s life), the researchers measured the flexibility and overall health of both smaller and larger arteries in the mice.
What they discovered was surprising. Whereas the larger arteries had suffered no damage, smaller arteries of the mice on the high fat diet had drastically reduced their compliance.
This means that even at early stages of obesity and after only a short period of time on a high fat diet, we can expect smaller arteries in the body to begin hardening. And this happens much sooner than usually detected in larger arteries.
Since hardening of the arteries is often the first step in chronic high blood pressure and build-up of cholesterol plaque, this research indicates that a high fat diet is indeed unfavorable.
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depends probably on what types of fat were fed to the mice. Fats are not all equal, about which I am sure you do not need reminding. Until this is known the research is worthless.
What kind of fats were used in this study???? That is a critical fact to know. Good fats will not harm arteries – large or samll – and bad fats will eat them up. Your GOOD fats are olive oil, coconut oil, walnut oil, avocado, even butter. Your BAD fats are all the vegetable oils – corn, canola, safflower, etc. which inflame arteries and cause damamge and plaque build up. This study is useless since it didn’t separate the good and bad fats and just lumped them all together. So – truth is a high fat diet is good for you – just the right kind of fat!! See Recaging the Beast at Amazon.
My first question would be what kind of fats did they feed the mice and what percentage of their diets was it? That could make a huge difference in the results.
If they fed them something like beef fats from animals that had been given all kinds of drugs and bad treatment, same thing.
Sorry, since time immemorial people have been eating range fed animals. It is only relatively recently that heart disease has gotten to be such a problem.
how come eskimos lived on whale blubber (high Fat) and did not suffer from hardening arteries or any other modern illness for that matter ????
So was it canola or soy oil or some such or was it good old lard and grassed butter? That makes all the difference in the world! I have been in high good traditional fat diet plus coconut oil for eight years now and have seen my thyroid heal as in the goiter is not present anymore, and my thinning hair is regrowing very noticeably. It tells me that good fats do not clog your capillaries and veins.
Fat on it’s own dosn’t tell all. As the people above say the type of fat is important but also the amount of carbohydrate consumed with it and (certainly in humans)the long term blood sugar levels as this strongly relates to damage of this sort.
What kind of fats were used and was everything else the same?
I will echo the other responses. The information is useless without knowing what kind of fat was used in the study.
People on their traditional diets around the world often obtained over half their calories from fat. For example the Eskimos consumed about 80% of their calories from fat. Heart disease, hypertension, cancer, stroke, to name a few modern diseases, were unknown among them until they moved the foods of modern commerce: refined sugar, grains, canned and powdered milk, jams/jellies, and other processed foods.
The study did not bring anything new regardless what type of fat they fed the mice. For reference check Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn’s, T. Colin Campbell studies based on decades of work. Low fat diet proves to be the only way to go.
Canola oil? Canola oil was named by the Canadian. Colza oil named by the European, has been cultivated in Europe as an ingredient for biodiesel fuels. Colza oil is extensively used as a lubricant for machinery.
In other words, Colza oil/ Canola oil is not for cooking! It was not made for human or animal consumption!
Check it out from these websites.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110212104404AAO2a1x
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colza_oil
I am wondering is it ok to be eaten by human? Thanks.
This is great.
Well, speaking of people, most of us are eating on the go, buy packaged foods or eat out. Obviously, cheap food commercially prepared doesn’t contain much of good fats. So, when applied to people, I can extrapolate that we will see the bad effects of eating too much fat.
Olga
Hi I agree with you.
Gooday Christian, my old Dad when he was alive ate almost anything and everything, much like me. However I’m not into eating Fur or Feather, just a personal preference.
Dad’s favourite meal was Bacon, Sausage, Fried Tomato, Fried Eggs with Fried Bread, this was his weekend treat, both days. The bread was always fried in the fat left over from all of the cooking, I remember it was absolutely delicious.
I too loved that kind of fare, but don’t eat like that any more..?
My father’s diet was always fat of any kind, morning smoko (Tea Break) was always Two Thick Slices of Bread with Dripping (dripping was the fat left over from cooking a joint of beef on Sunday, it was prized as a great addition to any weekday meal and also used to make savoury scones).
He worked as a docker for more than fifty five years in London’s Dockland, it was the days before mechanical handling so his day was pure heavy hard work. He was never overweight and always rode his cycle to and from work, come rain hail and shine.
He always grew his own vegetables and studied herbs for health, which he also grew, harvested and brewed, then drank daily (don’t ask which or what I never did)
He was born in 1896 and died in 2001 at age 105 years, as a veteran of two world wars, he was a decorated soldier in the 1914-18 WW1 in France.
So I guess it’s all matter of genetics and physical activity combined with a diet that suits a person’s particular lifestyle.
Today people just don’t do enough daily exercise and that is one of our present day society’s biggest problem, too much processed food and a bad or no exercise regime.
Many thanks for continuing education.Hypertension is very dangerous disease
maybe the rats body system is different from human?well it is their own opinion and live what we believe.