Healthy Eating: Experts shun fat-free diets - Kewanee, IL - Star Courier

Healthy Eating: Experts shun fat-free diets - Kewanee, IL - Star Courier

Not all fat are created equal. My mom was in town a few weeks ago when she yelled at me to discard the fatty portion of the salmon. I gasped and explained to her that this was jam packed with omega 3! I was a bit stunned that she was not aware that there were different types of fat let alone healthy ones.

I hope you have developed a habit to take a look at the nutritional value of the food before you make a purchase. It's probably one of the best thing the FDA has established in recent memory. There are, however, room for improvement. Joan Endyke (who can probably use a new profile picture) describes the limitation of the nutritional label in distinguishing the good fat (HDL) and the bad fat (LDL). If you can't remember, keep in mind that LDL stands for low-density lipoprotein as in 'liposuction'. Get it? Here is a detailed article from abcnews.

Seafood diet may protect older adults' vision longer

Seafood diet may protect older adults' vision longer

Get ready to take your parents and grandparents to those seafood restaurants! It's always known that food rich in omega-3 is good for you but how good? This research by Bonnielin Swenor of John Hopkins details:

Bonnielin Swenor of the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine."Our study shows a dietary effect, that people who had the highest weekly intake of fish and shellfish high in omega-3 fatty acids were significantly less likely to have advanced disease," Swenor says.

Weight maintenance achieved with high-protein, low-glycemic-index diet

Weight maintenance achieved with high-protein, low-glycemic-index diet

If you have attempted a diet or two, you probably notice by now it's more difficult to maintain your weight after the weight loss. I found that true when I went on the Master Cleanse. Here is an article that talks about maintaining your weight after weight loss by maintaining a high-protien, low-glycemic0-dex diet.

Quote:
A modest increase in protein intake and decrease in glycemic index led to maintained weight loss, according to data from a European study. The study enrolled 938 adults from eight European countries who had lost at least 8% of their initial body weight by adhering to an 800-kcal diet. Researchers randomly assigned 773 participants in a two-by-two factorial fashion to one of five diets: low protein and low glycemic index; low protein and high glycemic index; high protein and low glycemic index; high protein and high glycemic index or a control diet. The purpose of the diet was to maintain weight for 26 weeks.

Salty diet does harm in heart failure

Salty diet does harm in heart failure

From Reuters Health. More reason to reduce salt in your diet. I never understood why people put salt when they bake or when they cook eggs. I certainly don't! The article articulates the risks involved with people who have a high salt diet and if they encounter a heart failure.

Highlights:
In the study, people who ate an average of 3.8 grams of sodium per day -- equivalent to nearly 2 teaspoons of salt, and more than twice the maximum recommended by the American Heart Association for healthy people -- were twice as likely to be hospitalized for heart failure within a 3-year window as people who ate fewer salty foods.

Among people with heart failure who ate an average of 3.8 grams of salt per day, nearly half were hospitalized for heart failure over an approximately 3-year period. In contrast, only 12 to 15 percent of the people with lower-salt diets - between 1.4 and 2.4 grams per day on average -- ended up in the hospital during the same time span.

People who ate the highest amounts of salt were also three times more likely to die during the study period, the authors report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Twinkies or Potatoes? Maybe we are overthinking this.

Mark Haub, a professor at Kansas State University, became news after losing 27 lbs eating nothing but twinkies, sugar donuts, and nutty bars in an experiment. He wanted to prove that counting calories was more important than anything else in losing weight. He proved to be right. What he didn't expect was that his bad cholestrol levels also dropped.
Haub's "bad" cholesterol, or LDL, dropped 20 percent and his "good" cholesterol, or HDL, increased by 20 percent. He reduced the level of triglycerides, which are a form of fat, by 39 percent.

He has no explanation for this.

Recently, Chris Voigt of the state of Washington, went on a potatoes only diet. You name it, baked, steamed, mashed, and even fried. He did this for two months and the results are staggering.

Voigt put away roughly 20 potatoes per day for 60 straight days, some 400 pounds in all. And at the end he had lost weight — down from 197 pounds to 176 — while reducing his blood sugar and slashing his cholesterol by more than 30 percent.

They do give a disclaimer:

The problem with the all-potato diet, of course, is the same as with the junk food diet: if you maintained it for any serious length of time, it would probably land you in the hospital, or worse.

So does this discredit high carb diets? It's worth taking a closer look.

Article from calorielab.