Coconut oil also derives benefits in "pulling" where Aruvedic medicine would suggest swishing it for 20 min daily on an empty stomach gets rid of diseases.
Urgelt, I wanted to publicly thank you, my friend. I have been adding a tablespoon of coconut oil to my diet daily this past week and so far I notice nothing but benefits. Cutting out the temperate zone polyunsaturated vegetable oils in favor of coconut oil is one of the best dietary decisions I ever made. I linked your video to my blog.
We are tropical critters. I've also been eating more specifically tropical vegetables , nuts and fruits. :))
i agee with most you said but pigs are animals without brains, thatswhy they ate the food they were givin. on the contrary, humans have brains and thus can make a decison to choose doritos or a celery, carrot, cilantro , kale smoothie.
I am coming up for my 43 birthday yesterday and I really have to change my habits. Smoking must go tomorrow. And I really must start eating sensible portions and good quality food.
It's never too late to pay attention to nutrition.
Unfortunately, good information can be tough to nail down. The food industry wants to sell what's profitable, not what's good for you - and they have a lot of pull with governments, so "official" dietary advice may serve food industry interests and have little resemblance to the latest science.
A credible source always expresses uncertainty; much isn't yet known to science.
No, I don't deep-fry. I don't do much cooking at all. I'm a vegetarian (but not a vegan); most vegetables are best consumed raw. I do hard-boil eggs and, naturally, I don't eat raw fish. (Vegans avoid all animal products.)
I don't drink milk; I do consume other milk products (such as cheese, cottage cheese, and yogurt) sparingly. Where possible, I choose organic.
I include sunflower seeds in my diet. Not a huge amount of them, but they're there.
I do that because I'm pursuing variety - one of the principles I'm suggesting will help us, nutritionally.
But sunflowers are a temperate crop. Humans evolved in the tropics. So I rely more heavily on olive and coconut oils, eggs, milk products, and fish oil to obtain healthful fats. I round it out with various seeds and nuts.
I avoid the temperate grain oils as much as I can.
Also i do believe obesity is the individual persons fault. Willpower is enough to lose weight to become a healty person. We are not all fat, people who don't exercise and eat unhealthy amounts of food are going to be obese. The people who eat sensible amounts and exercise will be of a healthy weight. I don't buy all this 'ooh it's not my fault i am fat' because it is.
We are taught from childhood to vilify gluttons, to despise the slothful, to believe that obesity is visual evidence of sin.
Science is struggling to understand the actual mechanisms by which lipid exchanges in fat cells become disregulated. How gut bacteria are involved, how industrial food processing and chemical exposures and infectious diseases play a role, and much more.
But many people aren't interested at all in learning from science. I get that.
Do you think by saying it isn't the individuals fault is like saying they are not responsible for being an unhealthy weight and shouldln't take any blame? Perhaps you are over complicating and simple problem, looking into the science of it when it's just lack of exercise.
I have ran many half marathons, being a fat child and teen,due to unhealthy eating and no exercise,i found as soon as i started exercising the weight fell off. Not only that it exercise is proven to help with depression.
The phrasing you used shifts the argument away from medical science and towards morality: it's either the individual's fault or it isn't.
I'm going to push back in the other direction. Fault isn't even on my radar. Obesity is a phenomenon. Lifestyle choices play into it, but so do other factors which either aren't under the individual's direct control, or only partially so: pathogens, gut bacterial populations, genetics, toxic exposures being examples.
Science has much to learn about obesity, still. But thus far, the evidence that transient caloric restriction ("dieting") produces lasting results is not compelling, and the same can be said for exercise.
Which is not to say that lifestyle choices don't matter, or that the individual afflicted with this condition has no responsibility to combat it with every tool at his or her disposal. Lifestyle choices affect health; diseases should be fought.
Let me clue you in. If you develop any of a number of different medical conditions, your doctor is going to prescribe one or several of dozens of medications on the market which will cause you to gain weight, with absolutely no change in your exercise or dietary patterns.
If this happens to you, as it has to many of my correspondents, you will find yourself struggling with a physiological problem not of your making.
Drugs are just one of the ways fat cells can become disregulated.
But the Omega 3 and Omega 6 EFA's are from PUFA's. HOWEVER, those highly refined oils you see on the supermarket shelves are just as bad
as hydrogenated oils, because they contain unnatural trans-fatty acids. Naturally occurring trans-fats are not all that bad, and plus, they are sparse. Man-made rape (Canola), which is GMO, BTW, is evil.
I use EVO, VCO, linseed, grapeseed, and apricot kernel oils almost exclusively.
Old man i love to hear your old story in the past but do you have any past story that could help for a chronic disease person like a Rheumathology Arthritis disease how to treat it and what diet or medicin to preffer plz i love to have your advise thanks see
I have read a book called the Makers Diet and he is now considered a doctor. He had Crohns disease and he has been able to lead a normal life with this well studied diet. He suggests coconut oil for cooking. I have read other sources that say coconut oil has many health benefits.
It's not a cure-all. There's no such thing. But I think coconut oil, olive oil, and fats from nuts (walnuts, almonds especially) in your diet are healthier than consuming temperate crop unsaturated oils for your dietary fats. Even butter and lard are probably healthier - unless they include unhealthy hormones or have been hydrogenated.
We don't need conspiracy theories to explain our observations.
The agricultural industry can most easily supply temperate grain crop products. That's what they want to sell, and that's what their marketing efforts and their government proxies will promote.
I can't even begin to imagine how we could supply the entire Earth's population with a paleolithic diet - even though that's the diet we are genetically adapted to consuming. Those foods do not exist in the quantities we require.
And that puts us in a difficult position. Somehow we have to navigate the aisles of supermarkets or exploit other food sources and come away with foods which will meet our nutritional needs without disregulating our fat cells.
However, using no other oils but coconut cannot be the solution, can it? From what you have read, are you certain that polyunsaturated oils have absolutely no essential benefits? (By essential, I mean that cannot be obtained otherwise.)
Quite right. Olive oil has known health benefits. So, too, does fish oil. I'm convinced that in moderation, meat, lard and butter are healthier than any margarine - though those benefits can be lost if these products are produced with industrial methods (hydrogenation, toxins, hormones, antibiotics, etc.). Nuts and seeds can be healthful sources of fats, too. I advise pursuing variety among these sources.
I think the oils to be avoided are temperate crop unsaturated oils.
Well, why do you think the USFDA decided to tell us that poly-unsaturated fats are more healthy, wouldnt they rather tell us the opposite keeping more of the P.U.F with the pigs?
The FDA is dominated by agricultural and pharmaceutical interests.
Temperate crop grains and grain oils are what the agricultural industry can most easily produce and sell. It's in their interests to see to it that consumers are guided to buy them.
There is also the "honest mistake" problem in science, where honest results lead to incorrect - but convenient - conclusions.
Studies found that where HDL cholesterol levels were high, arterosclerosis advanced more quickly. So eating cholesterol is bad, right? Eat margerine instead!
Not so fast. Turns out there is no connection between dietary intake of cholesterol and blood cholesterol levels. And after decades of margarine - hydrogenated unsaturated oils - consumption, it turns out margarine is very dangerous to human health. Oops.
research was done with cows where they discovered that feeding cows grains (as opposed to grass) increased the fat on their bodies and thus provided more monetary gain for the beef industry. So, grass fed cows stay lean, grain fed cows have an increase of fat. I'd add that while fats (polyunsaturated fats, trans fats, and hydrogenated oils) are unhealthy, processed sugar and grains are just as unhealthy...and I believe that people eat way too much of these things in one day-- eat a balanced diet
I'm not prepared to condemn all grain consumption. But I think we probably have too many in our diet.
Remember we know very little about the cellular biochemistry of nutrition. We aren't done discovering substances in food or the ways in which those substances affect cells. Any conclusions we reach must be preliminary and cautious.
That said, you're right. Grains and oils are used to make cows fatter than they would be on their natural grazing diet. I recommend going easy on them.
i heard that eating at pricise hours is important just like your internal clock ...i for example can't sleep at night because of prvious lifestyle ...i used to sleep during the day and wonder off at night for several years ..now because my internal clock being reversed i can barely keep up ...its the same with eating at certein hours during the day in order for your body to process the food
Yes... well, I won't say that your internal clock is irrelevant. I will say it's not a well-understood area of science. There are a few clues to harvest from studies, though. Among them is that people who suffer from sleep disorders are much more likely to also suffer from obesity and many other health problems.
So it's not good news if you find your internal clock is out of whack and your sleep schedule is unpredictable. Not good news at all. You might want to mention it to your doc.
I think the single most important goal you could adopt is to choose nutritious foods in a very wide variety, and consume those foods in amounts which will maintain your health.
Probably as important is getting enough exercise. Walking 11 miles a week should take care of this, or you can engage in sports or aerobics.
Holding to a normal schedule is probably good, but not nearly as important as the first two.
i never said it's you duty to tell people what's a healthy lifestyle ...i asked you those things because you seem to know a bit about this matter ...it's not about chosing because many dont know what to chose ..also most food have genetic modification ...people were much healthier several years ago when they were eating their own food
And because it is, it's also about knowing how to choose. How to think about food. Critical thinking and curiosity about nutrition are therefore traits to cultivate.
It's not easy to inform yourself, because mainstream media and even the internet are clogged with self-interested messages from people who want to sell you their products.
I've given the outline of my thinking on the subject in this video series. You're welcome to view them and comment.
not really informative .keep it simple and to the point ..i need to know something ...i heard that eating at precise hours is important ...i for instance get hungry and eat mostly at night because of nightlife style ,also ...mix things with loots of beer and smoking ....how do i fix this ?also the food is not nutritious ..i mean a combo of warm meals and fast food...
It's much, much worse. Rocket science is well understood, for the most part. Nutrition is far more complicated and there are huge gaps in our understanding. To fill those gaps requires understanding cellular biochemistry in every detail, both for human cells and for the symbiotes and pathogens along for the ride. Science has only just begun to unravel how cells work.
The complexity makes rocket science look like child's play.
I do not see it as my task to tell you what to eat or "keep it simple." I see it as my task to convince you that nutrition is a subject worthy of your curiosity and deserving of your skepticism.
This video series is a conversation, not a lecture. I don't know it all, and I wish to learn from viewers as much as I wish to share what I have learned.
How do you fix a bad diet? It starts with curiosity and self-education.
Educating yourself means appreciating how little we actually know, as well as taking advantage of what we do know. It means grasping how industrially-processed foods are not always healthy - or even usually healthy, and why. It means making yourself immune to advertisements, because they are never a reliable source of information about nutrition. Never.
It means learning how to think critically and choose wisely.
I am a Registered Dietitian and I came across your video. Polyunsaturated fats do not cause obesity but rather it's total intake of fat & calories. Saturated fats should be minimized in the diet mainly for CV reasons. Polyunsaturated fats such as omega-3 F.A. are very important for our health. Obesity is caused by consuming too many calories, a sedentary lifestyle, stress, & various other reasons I can't go into in this comment. interesting challenge though.
I accept your point about the Omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA. They are indeed unsaturated fats, and they probably should be added to the "essential nutrients" recommended by the FDA.
It is a mistake to conclude that all unsaturated fats have similar benefits.
I'm of the view that the scientific case for temperate crop unsaturated oils as beneficial to health is extremely weak, and that overgeneralizing about the benefits of polyunsaturated fats is dangerous and wrong.
I agree there is an overgeneralization about the benefits of PUFAs. Here in the USA our ratio of omega-6:omega-3s consumption is approximately 15:1 whereas the ratio should be more like 2:1. These are considered essential fatty acids but their proportion in which they are consumed is unbalanced.
You aren't wrong, but don't lump all of the Omega-3 fatty acids together as if they were all the same. They are not.
ALA, for example, is an Omega-3 fatty acid which is not directly used in human cells. Some people can convert it to EPA and then to DHA, but the conversion rate is horrible. Others cannot convert it at all.
DHA and EPA are available only from cold-water oceanic sources, such as cod. And that raises more problems for us.
Cold-water fish are the easiest source to harvest, but world stocks have been badly depleted, and what stocks remain are dangerously contaminated with industrial toxins and heavy metals.
Fish don't manufacture EPA and DHA themselves, though. They pick up these fatty acids from prey. The original source is algae.
Algae is not a human food, but we're running out of options. I have a feeling we'll be farming algae pretty soon.
Anyway my videos aren't about me; I'm nobody special, and I'm not particularly deserving of praise. They're about ideas.
The least of us is exalted when a good idea takes hold in his head. The trick is to distinguish the good ideas from the bad ones. I'm afraid most of us need help with that - me included.
"Pursue variety:" is one of my recommendations (it appears later in the HE series).
There are certainly valuable nutrients in grape seed oil, and there is nothing wrong in including it in your diet. But it would be a mistake to restrict your oil consumption to only that, I think. My advice? Emphasize olive and coconut oils, eat nuts and seeds (unprocessed, organic). You can also get fats from animal sources, but that raises a whole slew of questions that need answering, in my view.
Hi Urgelt :) Wow that is an interesting subject about the fact that saturated fats made the pigs lean and muscular but the polyunsaturated fats made them fat! I don't wish to place any pressure on you to give an answer to this but what kind of foods with saturated fats do you think would be quite beneficial?
I *think* - and please understand, I'm not an expert and I'm still learning - that the following fats provide strong nutritive value: - Olive and coconut oils. - Animal fats (as from milk, eggs, meat). - Nuts and seeds, preferably raw in most cases. - Fish oil.
Out of that list, fish oil and olive oil contain some unsaturated fats, but good ones, according to quite a lot of research.
On my "avoid" list are temperate crop oils such as soybean oil, corn oil, safflower oil.
When choosing foods, there are two additional principles that are vital.
One is avoiding toxins. Cooking produces them, so if it's safe to eat a food raw, eat it raw. Organic foods are lower in toxins, too.
The other is pursuing variety. It's no good to settle on "one saturated fat" and flog it. The truth is that we have not even discovered all of the nutrients cells need. Our best hope of satisfying our nutritional needs is to eat lots of different foods.
That's why I obtain saturated fats - which are necessary building blocks for healthy cells and cellular membranes - from a variety of sources.
For most of my life, I ignored coconuts, and a lot of Americans are like me, I think. That was a mistake. It's a very good food source. I now include organic coconut oil and organic low-temperature-dried coconut meat in my regular diet. But I still obtain fats from many other sources.
Erucic acid in mustard oil is controversial. Some experts think it may be harmful to the heart if consumed regularly.
The pungent odor resulting from mixing ground mustard seeds with water or vinegar comes from allyl isothiocyanate, which is a no-joke toxin. Mustard plants use it to kill chewing insects. It's also been used as a chemical warfare agent.
I recommend using mustard oil sparingly to enhance the flavor of occasional dishes, and relying on other oils for primary nutrition.
If you stop taking in unhealthy chemicals, drugs, hormones, and toxins commonly found in industrially-processed foods, and drink plenty of water, your body will gradually detoxify itself of most of those substances.
Choose organic. Eat most of your fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds uncooked. Minimize meat and dairy.
Don't buy detox products on-line or in health food stores unless your doctor recommends you use them. Most of those products are scams. Don't waste your money.
It's corruption, in my opinion. It's completely opposite to the morals we preach to each other in America, opposite to the values we insist on teaching our kids, opposite to our understanding of ourselves as a nation.
I suppose we're a bit naive in the US. We don't demand integrity in government; we just assume it's going to be there. That attitude has made us vulnerable to the worst abuses imaginable.
This is really interesting, and you put your point accross really well. this is the first of your videos that i've watched and i'm really interested to see the rest :)
This is correct. Why do we like the sweet ripe pear more then the sour green one? Why do we like fruit more then vegatables? Bacon more then either? Because when we either had more then we could realistically eat or nothing at all, having a preference for high calorie food and the ability to pack it away en mass was a real survivial advantage. That same trait is now a major pain in the butt. Our low activity lifestyles just make that even more obvious
Agreed. We crave sugar because it was so hard to get for our ancestors, and finding some conferred a survival advantage. That's working against us now, big-time. Toss in desk jobs and TV hypnotism, and you have a real health problem.
Human beings have spent most of their existance living not knowing where their next meal was coming from. A good percent still do. The same natural instinct that makes us fill up on the highist calorie food possible while it is there knowing that there will be a time when it won't be works against us when we live in a world where food is only a few steps away all the time.
Our distant ancestors were also very active - except during famine, drought, or when ill or injured. Inactivity equaled emergency.
I think our bodies respond to inactivity by improving fat storage efficiency and stepping up hunger, to make sure every calorie that can be scrounged, will be.
For this reason, diet alone probably can never succeed, no matter how excellent. Being active is essential to controlling cravings and defeating obesity.
Reason I asked was because after seeing this video, I discovered the fish-oil capsules wich I use contains polyunsaturated fat. I got the impression that thats the type of fat you warned about.
Ill definately give coconut oil a try! Thanks for good videos!
Olive oil contains some polyunsaturated fats, too. So do some nuts - like walnuts, which I'm convinced are a useful source of nutrients. And, as you pointed out, fish oil does, too.
So, yeah. All polyunsaturated oils are not bad. I kind of glossed over that point in the video, but it's come up in the comments more than once.
That's why I always tell people, read the comments. The comments are often more interesting than my videos.
This is interesting, but it also maby makes me more confused. Does this mean that I should get rid of the fish-oil capsules and grinded flax seeds I thought I was treating my body with??
Fish oil is a very good source of the Omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA. I use it myself, and recommend it to others.
Flax is probably an inferior source of Omega-3. There is evidence that humans do not metabolize it very well.
But I include flax in my diet, too. Why? Because I pursue variety in nutrition. Science is still discovering essential nutrients and positive health benefits from various foods. Much is still unknown. Pursuing variety is a therefore a good tactic.
That said, there is enough evidence to warn me away from temperate-crop unsaturated oils. Our ancestors did not evolve consuming these foods, and the arguments for their health benefits advanced by food industry advocates don't convince me.
As for hydrogenated fats, also called trans-fats, they're poisonous.
I rely mostly on coconut oil, olive oil, nuts and seeds, and animal fats (eggs and, sparingly, milk products) for my fat intake.
hey Urgelt, I'm growing to love healthy food. Here in Germany it's quite hard, in a normal store you find next to nothing. But I'm becoming creative, and am inventing a lot of new recipes with the ingredients I want to eat. Delicious is e.g. tomatoes filled with spinach (and basil, olive oil); or whole wheat spaghetti with tuna! :)
I also find the Harvard healthy food pyramid very useful, and live by it at the moment.
The Harvard healthy food pyramid is a clear improvement over the US Food and Drug Administration version.
There are problems with it, though.
For one thing, it does not mention that industrial processing reduces nutritive value (in fact, may reduce it so much it's practically like eating a poison).
For another, its selection of "healthy" oils includes corn, soybean, canola, and other temperate crop oils which I think are far less healthy than tropical oils like olive, coconut, sesame.
Third, Harvard does not address the Omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA, which I think should be considered daily essential nutrients. They're only available from fish, krill and plankton sources.
Fourth, Harvard fails to mention that avoiding toxins, drugs and hormones in food is healthier.
Fifth, there's no controversy in science in concluding that a balanced vegetarian diet is more healthy. Harvard forgot to mention it.
Those are examples of what I see as serious flaws in Harvard's approach.
Yes, I also think those points are very important. I do have one question, which is quite important to me: I do not understand, why potatoes are listet right at the top - surely potatoes are healthy?
There's a ton of starchy carbs in the interior. Not a good thing to consume in large amounts.
Most of the nutrition is in the skins, so the best tactic is to buy the smallest potatoes you can find (more skin, less starch). Go easy on butter or sour cream, calories add up fast from those foods.
Thank you so much for your answer! You have really helped me. I have watched the whole of your healthy eating series, which is the best information source about a healthy lifestyle I have found so far! Great job. I would like to ask you, what you eat for breakfast? If you eat bread, what do you eat on it, if not much cheese or marmelade? And I have read one should only eat fruit in the morning, because it's better for your digestion, as it uses less energy to digest. What do you think?
American tradition places certain foods at certain meals. Cereals, milk, fruit juice, eggs - breakfast. Sandwiches - lunch. Cooked meals - supper.
I don't eat that way at all. I want to avoid ruts as much as possible. Pursuing variety means no iron-bound habits.
Today breakfast was two hard-boiled eggs and a glass of cherry juice. Yesterday I ate organic spinach-cheese lasagna for breakfast. (Processed food, but I do accept some compromises in food choices.)
Sometimes I mix sunflower seeds, pine nuts, walnuts, almonds, coconut flakes, raisins, dried cranberries, and an ounce or two of organic muesli and munch on it dry. Each time I do this I vary the recipe - adding in other nuts, frozen organic blueberries, etc.
Plain organic yogurt sweetened with a pinch of stevia, a dash of vanilla extract, and mixed with some frozen fruit (strawberries, blueberries, pineapple, etc.) is good.
Use your imagination. Don't try to engineer new ruts, be creative.
I think that debate in nutrition encapsulates perfectly our dilemma as consumers.
Yes, milk products are hard to digest (or impossible for lactose-intolerant people), and studies have shown that drinking it can *reduce* your calcium supply. And if you ignore those irratations, even organic milk has hormones in it which can accelerate some cancers. Get your milk from non-organic sources, and it's going to be loaded with antibiotics and other drugs, and even *more* hormones.
And yet - it's also true that milk is an extremely rich source of all sorts of nutrients. It has to be. Calfs grow on the stuff before they can eat a single blade of grass.
But whether it's good for an adult of another species to consume it regularly - not in its raw form, but transformed by heat and provided additives, which alters its chemical composition - remains an open question.
My answer? In my diet milk products are minimized, but not eliminated. I consume small amounts of various cheeses, yogurt and cottage cheese, mostly organic. I do not use milk on cereal.
As for muesli and bread: the more processing that is done to grains, the worse their nutritive value. Bread - even whole-grain bread - is very highly processed. Muesli tends to be less processed (but it depends on the manufacturer).
I try to stay with minimally-processed grain sources.
So what does the debate over milk and cereal tell us?
It tells us that we are still in the "investigation" phase of science. We have not really figured out how cells work, chemically. We do not have a firm grasp of how nutrients affect their, and our, health.
In nutrition, advice is built on a tower of assumptions. No matter who you listen to, some of those assumptions are probably wrong.
Which is: - Aggressively pursue variety (narrow diets are more likely to contain nutritive holes which lead to cravings and poor health). - Try to obtain foods which are not industrially processed. - Avoid food additives and foods treated with drugs and poisons. - Cook only what you must cook to make something edible and safe (the latter rule mostly applies to animal flesh and eggs). - Minimize animal food sources. - Choose organic as much as possible.
hello Urgelt, thank you so much for that video! I am glad to have found something to get started on, finding information on healthy eating - I will watch your other videos.
I have recovered from a slight eating disorder (18-year old girl), and have now decided to eat HEALTHY... just, everyone says something different! I am eating whole-meal, fruit, salad and e.g. pasta without sauces...
And now I've come across people saying, one shouldn't eat e.g. muesli together with milk! -->
I'd love to have a supply of fresh coconuts, for the water and the flesh. It's a very good food. But coconuts in my location are expensive and... well, old. They have to travel a long way.
Interesting fact about coconuts. In WWII, doctors in the Pacific discovered that immature (green) coconut water works as a substitute for blood plasma. It's sterile, has the right balance of electrolytes and glucose, the right pH, and is tolerated well when infused.
here in italy i find coconuts at very cheap prize. 1 euro and 20 once only. i always drink their water. but how can i recognize if they are young coconut only from the endocarp? ...and the mature coconut water is worse?
When I say I eat mostly peanuts I mean that most of my calorie intake is based on peanuts, approximately %65. The rest of the calories are from fruits and vegetables. Now when you keep in mind that most peanuts are very high in calories, and most fruits and vegetables aren't, well things kind of balance out for me. Im just hoping I dont get peanut intoxication :) oh and thnx for answering, very helpful and interesting stuff.
Nutrition is more like constructing a building than feeding wood to a fire. You can't compensate for a shortage of roofing tiles with an overabundance of drywall, and you can't make up for a lack of Omega-3 fatty acids with extra protein.
Cells need a great many nutrients. If you over-emphasize one food, it's always at the expense of the rest.
I made an experiment by dieting mostly on roasted peanuts. Although peanuts are really high in fat, I've been getting leaner and leaner (we're talking six pack). I do exercise daily, but fat loss was a clear response to my diet change. Now, I'm not sure if the peanut fat has the same consistency as the coconut fat since, frankly, I'm kind of lazy to do the research right now. But I had to share this since I don't really hear people talking about dieting on peanuts.
Living mostly on peanuts is what I call a nutrient-restricted diet (as opposed to a calorie-restricted diet). You are, in essence, starving yourself, since your body requires many more nutrients than are found in any single food source.
Nutrient-restricted diets can produce weight loss, but they are incredibly dangerous to health, and they eventually generate uncontrollable cravings (naturally, since you're starving).
Peanuts are a good food source - in moderation. Living on peanuts is suicidal.
I have not read any studies about peanut oil, its health benefits, or its effect on weight. Doesn't mean they don't exist. I'm a conversationalist, not an expert.
I hope you will see this as a starting point for further research and learning, AKF9, rather than an end point.
Even more important, I hope you'll treat what I have said, and other sources, too, with skepticism. Read widely. Look for commercial interests associated with each opinion - many voices on the Internet and elsewhere are flogging sales of a product, not presenting objective information. Where possible, go to the source scientific studies and absorb what they are saying.
Well, "extra" has no meaning. Either it's virgin (not heat-treated) or it isn't. Aside from that, it's very beneficial to regularly include olive oil in your diet.
You lose some of the health benefit, though, by cooking with it. Heat alters it. I prefer to use it right out of the bottle on salads.
Yes I agree. Fruit does contain sugar but it's natural sugar. A typical apple or orange is mostly water. Yes, bananas are classified as being high glycemic index meaning they will cause blood sugar to rise but it's near impossible to get fat from eating fruit. Do you agree?!
When I visited the US a few years ago I was really shocked by the ingredients in food, like high fructose corn syrup. Even in Britain we don't have that, though there is an obesity crisis because of all the sugar that's in food.
Raw foods have toxins, too, you know. But I agree, heat will form carcinogens and toxins where none existed. I think raw foods are, on average, better nutrition, and the only cooking I do is the bare minimum required to render food edible and safe.
Were I you, I'd eat fewer fruits and more vegetables. You're taking in a lot of sugar in that fruit. I'd also be thinking about minimizing mercury intake.
I follow the Native North American diets. It's a proven method to live to be very old and be healthy the whole way. I may not know about all the contents and details, but I know it works.
I follow the native North American diets. They consist of 80% of meats, fats and grease. 20% other foods like fruits and vegatables. With this diets, one can live to be easily 95 years old and be healthy for the whole trip.
Interesting about the coconut oil. I've never heard polyunsaturated fats were good. I've heard monounsaturated fats are "good" though, as far as fats are concerned.
Certain unsaturated fats reduce blood serum cholesterol levels. But cholesterol is only part of the riddle of artherosclerosis. Deposits form on artery walls at stress points that show signs of damage, not elsewhere. Why do they weaken?
Studies have shown that unsaturated fats also reduce cell wall membrane thickness. Could this be a cause of weakened arterial walls?
The conclusion that certain unsaturated fats are beneficial may be premature.
artery breakdown is caused by not consuming the minimum 200mg of vitamin c in the form of fruits not in synthetic pill form. Collagen is the glue of all tissue especially capillary leakage.
True vitamin c from fruit source needs to also accompany the amino acids lysine and proline to make collagen.
For this I use raw egg yolk or brazil nuts or sashimi (protien) and eat 1 orange, 1 kiwi and drink half a lemon in water each day. (Vit. C) This is needed every day.
I have found coconut oil very expensive for my budget. I do enjoy using coconut milk in all kinds of things. I also like to eat whole coconuts. How do these compare to coconut oil?
It's my opinion that eating raw coconuts is the absolute best way to obtain their nutritive value. But of course if you want to cook with oil, raw coconuts won't help.
Olive oil, however, is known as an exceptionally healthy oil, is readily available, and is not terribly expensive. Be sure to get virgin olive oil, otherwise it's probably been heat treated and thus may be chemically altered.
Completely agree with you Urgelt. In my effort for healthier mind and body I have switched completely to organic coconut oil, flax oil, fish oil and olive oil while eliminating corn, vegetable, canola, soybean, cottonseed and most animal saturated oils. This not only helps with the Omega3 to Omaga6 ratio but I shed 50lb as well. Thank you for the great videos.
I've been cooking with coconut oil for the past month and I've actually lost 5 lbs:) Now, I am running low and I must go out and get some more! :) Thank you for this information, dear. Without you, I never would have decided to use coconut oil.
I think so. But it's a subjective judgment, I have to admit. And I've made a lot of other dietary changes.
I believe firmly that if you remove bad foods from your diet permanently, consume only nutritious foods in a balanced way, and don't let yourself fall into a rut, you will find cravings easier to manage.
Sure - that's what the Healthy Eating series is about. I've provided my ideas, plus a few HTML links and search terms for further information.
There's also interesting discussion in the comments for each video.
Finally, on my profile page, you can access my "favorite" videos, which include more than a few excellent videos about nutrition from other YouTubers.
thanks Urgelt, when I wrote the comment I'd only seen one of your videos, watched quite a few now. . . . very interesting - just what I was wanting :o)
The Anti Coronary Club 1966 is one of the clinical intervention trials thta saw 8 deaths from coronary heart disease is the participants radnomized to POLYUNSATURATED CANOLA OIL. No deaths from coronary heart disease were reported in the participants randomized to animal fats.
So YES These oils are causal. They cause arterial damage.
There certainly are some studies out there that point in this direction. I think these oils are causal.
I still think it's inadequately studied for absolute certainty, however. I'd love to see more science done to untangle exactly which oils produce which health effects.
Check out the video "Calling Out Dr. Oz". The whole anti- cholesterol/anti- saturated fat idea was incorrect from the start . The whole thing was started by one severely misguided man named Ancel Keys.
Dr. Oz should admite he is incorrect on his anti saturated fat stance. Randomized clinical dietary intervention trials have REPEATEDLY FAILED to lower coronary heart disease mortality or incidence.
Your ultimate reference is the Britannica Book of the Year for 1946? Have you read it?
I mistakenly used "pig fat coconut" at first. A few research abstracts came up. One said pigs gained weight fastest with a mixture of coconut and soybean oils. Another said that coconut oil in feed made the pig's fat hard while soybean oil made it soft. There wasn't a shortage of fat in the pigs fed coconut oil, apparently. Is it possible you're wrong?
Very little science has been done to sort out the specific health effects of different vegetable oils. Lots have looked at "saturated fats," but it turns out they looked at animal fats. My conclusion is based on sketchy information.
I *think* I've drawn the correct conclusion.
Soybean oil stimulates cravings. Any high-calorie food combined with stimulated cravings is going to cause weight gain.
Vege oil: canola,corn,sunflower,peanut,etc contain omega6,which we need.But most of us r alrdy eatin 20-50x more than we need. reduce vege oil asmuchas possible, replace with oliveoil,preferably coconut oil. Transfat shld be avoided at alltime.(so its better not to heat vege oil)It is contained mostly in fast food, cookie, friedfoods,mayonnaise,margarine (all food that contain hydrogenated oil, vegetable oil, or shortenings). Transfat leads to diabetes,heart disease, cancer n lot more. google it
Omega-6 is an inflammatory agent; in excess, it's not very good for health.
Even Omega-3 is not all the same. Studies show that the more beneficial compounds, EPA and DHA, are really only found in abundance in fish oil. ALA, found in flax seeds, is metabolized into DHA, but not efficiently.
Trans-fats (also called hydrogenated fats, which is the term I tend to use) are a death sentence.
Coconut oil is the best to cook with because it is the most stable under heat. Vege oils are unstable and converted to TRANS-FAT when cooked. Saturated fat was blamed because scientists failed to separately distinguished trans-fat from saturated fat.
We all need fats from good sources to help our body processes such as mineral n vits absorptions and lube our joints n produce essential hormones, etc. However the amount and type are very dependent on our own metabolic type n biochemistry.
I agree, and studies have also failed to distinguish between the different types of saturated fats. It really goes without saying that industrial meat production, with its antibiotics, hormones, drugs, contaminated feed, and unsanitary conditions, is going to skew the results if such distinctions are not made.
How well you feel is influenced by thousands of factors, some of them psychological and psychosomatic. Which of them are causative? How many of them exist which you don't even know about?
Anecdotes are interesting to scientists mainly as a way to highlight questions that need further study.
You see why I'm so cautious about declaring truths and falsehoods?
Thanks You for your clear presetation, this story is very amazing. I also believe that the industry food makes us fat.
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jkaikkiko 5 months ago
Coconut oil also derives benefits in "pulling" where Aruvedic medicine would suggest swishing it for 20 min daily on an empty stomach gets rid of diseases.
FruitarianSwimster 6 months ago
Urgelt, I wanted to publicly thank you, my friend. I have been adding a tablespoon of coconut oil to my diet daily this past week and so far I notice nothing but benefits. Cutting out the temperate zone polyunsaturated vegetable oils in favor of coconut oil is one of the best dietary decisions I ever made. I linked your video to my blog.
We are tropical critters. I've also been eating more specifically tropical vegetables , nuts and fruits. :))
Razwell 10 months ago
i agee with most you said but pigs are animals without brains, thatswhy they ate the food they were givin. on the contrary, humans have brains and thus can make a decison to choose doritos or a celery, carrot, cilantro , kale smoothie.
frogger1017 1 year ago
Well, that's not right, now is it? Pigs have complex brains. They lack a cerebral cortex, certainly, but are surely as smart as dogs, or smarter.
But the gist of your comment seems to be that as humans with complex brains, our conscious minds make our dietary choices, unlike animals.
I think that some behavior in humans is not under conscious control. And the gulf between us and animals may be less than it appears at first glance.
Urgelt 1 year ago
i like turtles
rebekahfaith 1 year ago
yes its true coconut makes your appetite go away
MsSaraty 1 year ago
I like your presentation, your clarity and agree with your take on nutrition. I also have ,
for decades, studied and experienced different ways of eating and healing the body
with "food." Just came across your postings and looking forward to listening to more.
sunnyrosegarden 1 year ago
I am coming up for my 43 birthday yesterday and I really have to change my habits. Smoking must go tomorrow. And I really must start eating sensible portions and good quality food.
CelticReject 1 year ago
It's never too late to pay attention to nutrition.
Unfortunately, good information can be tough to nail down. The food industry wants to sell what's profitable, not what's good for you - and they have a lot of pull with governments, so "official" dietary advice may serve food industry interests and have little resemblance to the latest science.
A credible source always expresses uncertainty; much isn't yet known to science.
Urgelt 1 year ago
excellent! thanks for posting!
carehappens 1 year ago
very well done :]
MsChristyMarie 2 years ago
Check out my vid on healthy living :)
hatton2scrumples 2 years ago
No, I don't deep-fry. I don't do much cooking at all. I'm a vegetarian (but not a vegan); most vegetables are best consumed raw. I do hard-boil eggs and, naturally, I don't eat raw fish. (Vegans avoid all animal products.)
I don't drink milk; I do consume other milk products (such as cheese, cottage cheese, and yogurt) sparingly. Where possible, I choose organic.
Urgelt 2 years ago
what about sunflower oil?
baredd79 2 years ago
I include sunflower seeds in my diet. Not a huge amount of them, but they're there.
I do that because I'm pursuing variety - one of the principles I'm suggesting will help us, nutritionally.
But sunflowers are a temperate crop. Humans evolved in the tropics. So I rely more heavily on olive and coconut oils, eggs, milk products, and fish oil to obtain healthful fats. I round it out with various seeds and nuts.
I avoid the temperate grain oils as much as I can.
Urgelt 2 years ago
@Urgelt 2 more questions for you. Do you deep fry anything? If so, what oil? What kind of milk do you drink?
baredd79 2 years ago
Rapeseed is toxic, due to its high concentration of erucic acid. So, enter GMO.
It's sad.
Yeah, you find it in mustard, too,
but most "mustard" condiments are so dilute,
that it's insignificant.
Mustard substitute:
cayenne + turmeric + balsamic vinegar.
It works for me....
gyrgrls 2 years ago
Sounds pretty good.
Balsalmic vinegar is fantastic stuff, isn't it? it's a rare salad at my house that isn't drenched with it. :-)
Urgelt 2 years ago
Also i do believe obesity is the individual persons fault. Willpower is enough to lose weight to become a healty person. We are not all fat, people who don't exercise and eat unhealthy amounts of food are going to be obese. The people who eat sensible amounts and exercise will be of a healthy weight. I don't buy all this 'ooh it's not my fault i am fat' because it is.
marcr61 2 years ago
I get that you believe this.
We are taught from childhood to vilify gluttons, to despise the slothful, to believe that obesity is visual evidence of sin.
Science is struggling to understand the actual mechanisms by which lipid exchanges in fat cells become disregulated. How gut bacteria are involved, how industrial food processing and chemical exposures and infectious diseases play a role, and much more.
But many people aren't interested at all in learning from science. I get that.
Urgelt 2 years ago
Do you think by saying it isn't the individuals fault is like saying they are not responsible for being an unhealthy weight and shouldln't take any blame? Perhaps you are over complicating and simple problem, looking into the science of it when it's just lack of exercise.
I have ran many half marathons, being a fat child and teen,due to unhealthy eating and no exercise,i found as soon as i started exercising the weight fell off. Not only that it exercise is proven to help with depression.
marcr61 2 years ago
The phrasing you used shifts the argument away from medical science and towards morality: it's either the individual's fault or it isn't.
I'm going to push back in the other direction. Fault isn't even on my radar. Obesity is a phenomenon. Lifestyle choices play into it, but so do other factors which either aren't under the individual's direct control, or only partially so: pathogens, gut bacterial populations, genetics, toxic exposures being examples.
Urgelt 2 years ago
Science has much to learn about obesity, still. But thus far, the evidence that transient caloric restriction ("dieting") produces lasting results is not compelling, and the same can be said for exercise.
Which is not to say that lifestyle choices don't matter, or that the individual afflicted with this condition has no responsibility to combat it with every tool at his or her disposal. Lifestyle choices affect health; diseases should be fought.
Urgelt 2 years ago
Let me clue you in. If you develop any of a number of different medical conditions, your doctor is going to prescribe one or several of dozens of medications on the market which will cause you to gain weight, with absolutely no change in your exercise or dietary patterns.
If this happens to you, as it has to many of my correspondents, you will find yourself struggling with a physiological problem not of your making.
Drugs are just one of the ways fat cells can become disregulated.
Urgelt 2 years ago
But the Omega 3 and Omega 6 EFA's are from PUFA's. HOWEVER, those highly refined oils you see on the supermarket shelves are just as bad
as hydrogenated oils, because they contain unnatural trans-fatty acids. Naturally occurring trans-fats are not all that bad, and plus, they are sparse. Man-made rape (Canola), which is GMO, BTW, is evil.
I use EVO, VCO, linseed, grapeseed, and apricot kernel oils almost exclusively.
gyrgrls 2 years ago
What is the origin of the name Urgelt? Or is it your actual name?
marcr61 2 years ago
It's just a user name, a pseudonym, completely made-up.
Urgelt 2 years ago
fair dooz, i like it, i just wondered if it was your name.
marcr61 2 years ago
Hi Urgelt,
I enjoyed this video, thanks..very informative
24godzone 2 years ago
Old man i love to hear your old story in the past but do you have any past story that could help for a chronic disease person like a Rheumathology Arthritis disease how to treat it and what diet or medicin to preffer plz i love to have your advise thanks see
strangerlover11 2 years ago
Improve your diet. Know the difference between bad food and good food, and use your knowledge in your eating habits.
This probably will not cure your rheumatoid arthritis. But it may help.
For more specific information about treating your disease, use a search engine and browse academic and health center sites.
You might also try this search term: "rheumatoid arthritis research."
Be prepared to spend a lot of time reading... and understand that there is no silver bullet.
Urgelt 2 years ago
I have read a book called the Makers Diet and he is now considered a doctor. He had Crohns disease and he has been able to lead a normal life with this well studied diet. He suggests coconut oil for cooking. I have read other sources that say coconut oil has many health benefits.
LifeNJesus 2 years ago
Me too.
It's not a cure-all. There's no such thing. But I think coconut oil, olive oil, and fats from nuts (walnuts, almonds especially) in your diet are healthier than consuming temperate crop unsaturated oils for your dietary fats. Even butter and lard are probably healthier - unless they include unhealthy hormones or have been hydrogenated.
Urgelt 2 years ago
I am not an expert in this region, infact i know quite little, but maybe the effects of Saturated Fat on pigs is different than the effect on humans.
Also, when you said the "-economical way to fatten-"
I thought you were about to say Americans, im thinking o great a conspiracy theory!
laallaal75 2 years ago
We don't need conspiracy theories to explain our observations.
The agricultural industry can most easily supply temperate grain crop products. That's what they want to sell, and that's what their marketing efforts and their government proxies will promote.
I can't even begin to imagine how we could supply the entire Earth's population with a paleolithic diet - even though that's the diet we are genetically adapted to consuming. Those foods do not exist in the quantities we require.
Urgelt 2 years ago
And that puts us in a difficult position. Somehow we have to navigate the aisles of supermarkets or exploit other food sources and come away with foods which will meet our nutritional needs without disregulating our fat cells.
That's a tall order.
Urgelt 2 years ago
Very interesting video, Urgelt.
However, using no other oils but coconut cannot be the solution, can it? From what you have read, are you certain that polyunsaturated oils have absolutely no essential benefits? (By essential, I mean that cannot be obtained otherwise.)
roji56 2 years ago
Quite right. Olive oil has known health benefits. So, too, does fish oil. I'm convinced that in moderation, meat, lard and butter are healthier than any margarine - though those benefits can be lost if these products are produced with industrial methods (hydrogenation, toxins, hormones, antibiotics, etc.). Nuts and seeds can be healthful sources of fats, too. I advise pursuing variety among these sources.
I think the oils to be avoided are temperate crop unsaturated oils.
Urgelt 2 years ago
Well, why do you think the USFDA decided to tell us that poly-unsaturated fats are more healthy, wouldnt they rather tell us the opposite keeping more of the P.U.F with the pigs?
laallaal75 2 years ago
The FDA is dominated by agricultural and pharmaceutical interests.
Temperate crop grains and grain oils are what the agricultural industry can most easily produce and sell. It's in their interests to see to it that consumers are guided to buy them.
There is also the "honest mistake" problem in science, where honest results lead to incorrect - but convenient - conclusions.
Urgelt 2 years ago
Best example of that is cholesterol.
Studies found that where HDL cholesterol levels were high, arterosclerosis advanced more quickly. So eating cholesterol is bad, right? Eat margerine instead!
Not so fast. Turns out there is no connection between dietary intake of cholesterol and blood cholesterol levels. And after decades of margarine - hydrogenated unsaturated oils - consumption, it turns out margarine is very dangerous to human health. Oops.
Urgelt 2 years ago
research was done with cows where they discovered that feeding cows grains (as opposed to grass) increased the fat on their bodies and thus provided more monetary gain for the beef industry. So, grass fed cows stay lean, grain fed cows have an increase of fat. I'd add that while fats (polyunsaturated fats, trans fats, and hydrogenated oils) are unhealthy, processed sugar and grains are just as unhealthy...and I believe that people eat way too much of these things in one day-- eat a balanced diet
ratiocinativeness 2 years ago
I'm not prepared to condemn all grain consumption. But I think we probably have too many in our diet.
Remember we know very little about the cellular biochemistry of nutrition. We aren't done discovering substances in food or the ways in which those substances affect cells. Any conclusions we reach must be preliminary and cautious.
That said, you're right. Grains and oils are used to make cows fatter than they would be on their natural grazing diet. I recommend going easy on them.
Urgelt 2 years ago
damn, you really are one smart s.o.b!!!
maximusTLP 2 years ago
i heard that eating at pricise hours is important just like your internal clock ...i for example can't sleep at night because of prvious lifestyle ...i used to sleep during the day and wonder off at night for several years ..now because my internal clock being reversed i can barely keep up ...its the same with eating at certein hours during the day in order for your body to process the food
davazno1 2 years ago
Yes... well, I won't say that your internal clock is irrelevant. I will say it's not a well-understood area of science. There are a few clues to harvest from studies, though. Among them is that people who suffer from sleep disorders are much more likely to also suffer from obesity and many other health problems.
So it's not good news if you find your internal clock is out of whack and your sleep schedule is unpredictable. Not good news at all. You might want to mention it to your doc.
Urgelt 2 years ago
As for eating at certain times of the day:
I think the single most important goal you could adopt is to choose nutritious foods in a very wide variety, and consume those foods in amounts which will maintain your health.
Probably as important is getting enough exercise. Walking 11 miles a week should take care of this, or you can engage in sports or aerobics.
Holding to a normal schedule is probably good, but not nearly as important as the first two.
Urgelt 2 years ago
i never said it's you duty to tell people what's a healthy lifestyle ...i asked you those things because you seem to know a bit about this matter ...it's not about chosing because many dont know what to chose ..also most food have genetic modification ...people were much healthier several years ago when they were eating their own food
davazno1 2 years ago
It *is* about choosing, I think.
And because it is, it's also about knowing how to choose. How to think about food. Critical thinking and curiosity about nutrition are therefore traits to cultivate.
It's not easy to inform yourself, because mainstream media and even the internet are clogged with self-interested messages from people who want to sell you their products.
I've given the outline of my thinking on the subject in this video series. You're welcome to view them and comment.
Urgelt 2 years ago
is it true that dinner in the morning ,lunch in the afternoon and the third light meal at night is more important that the actual meal you eat ?
davazno1 2 years ago
No, it's not true. Not even a little bit.
You must sustain your cells with the nutrients they need. If you do not, your cells will not be healthy, and that means you will not be healthy.
Urgelt 2 years ago
not really informative .keep it simple and to the point ..i need to know something ...i heard that eating at precise hours is important ...i for instance get hungry and eat mostly at night because of nightlife style ,also ...mix things with loots of beer and smoking ....how do i fix this ?also the food is not nutritious ..i mean a combo of warm meals and fast food...
davazno1 2 years ago
Nutrition is not rocket science.
It's much, much worse. Rocket science is well understood, for the most part. Nutrition is far more complicated and there are huge gaps in our understanding. To fill those gaps requires understanding cellular biochemistry in every detail, both for human cells and for the symbiotes and pathogens along for the ride. Science has only just begun to unravel how cells work.
The complexity makes rocket science look like child's play.
Urgelt 2 years ago
I do not see it as my task to tell you what to eat or "keep it simple." I see it as my task to convince you that nutrition is a subject worthy of your curiosity and deserving of your skepticism.
This video series is a conversation, not a lecture. I don't know it all, and I wish to learn from viewers as much as I wish to share what I have learned.
Urgelt 2 years ago
How do you fix a bad diet? It starts with curiosity and self-education.
Educating yourself means appreciating how little we actually know, as well as taking advantage of what we do know. It means grasping how industrially-processed foods are not always healthy - or even usually healthy, and why. It means making yourself immune to advertisements, because they are never a reliable source of information about nutrition. Never.
It means learning how to think critically and choose wisely.
Urgelt 2 years ago
Thanks for the information Sir.
Fitnessblueprint 3 years ago
I am a Registered Dietitian and I came across your video. Polyunsaturated fats do not cause obesity but rather it's total intake of fat & calories. Saturated fats should be minimized in the diet mainly for CV reasons. Polyunsaturated fats such as omega-3 F.A. are very important for our health. Obesity is caused by consuming too many calories, a sedentary lifestyle, stress, & various other reasons I can't go into in this comment. interesting challenge though.
vwada 3 years ago
I accept your point about the Omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA. They are indeed unsaturated fats, and they probably should be added to the "essential nutrients" recommended by the FDA.
It is a mistake to conclude that all unsaturated fats have similar benefits.
I'm of the view that the scientific case for temperate crop unsaturated oils as beneficial to health is extremely weak, and that overgeneralizing about the benefits of polyunsaturated fats is dangerous and wrong.
Urgelt 3 years ago
I agree there is an overgeneralization about the benefits of PUFAs. Here in the USA our ratio of omega-6:omega-3s consumption is approximately 15:1 whereas the ratio should be more like 2:1. These are considered essential fatty acids but their proportion in which they are consumed is unbalanced.
vwada 3 years ago
You aren't wrong, but don't lump all of the Omega-3 fatty acids together as if they were all the same. They are not.
ALA, for example, is an Omega-3 fatty acid which is not directly used in human cells. Some people can convert it to EPA and then to DHA, but the conversion rate is horrible. Others cannot convert it at all.
DHA and EPA are available only from cold-water oceanic sources, such as cod. And that raises more problems for us.
Urgelt 3 years ago
Cold-water fish are the easiest source to harvest, but world stocks have been badly depleted, and what stocks remain are dangerously contaminated with industrial toxins and heavy metals.
Fish don't manufacture EPA and DHA themselves, though. They pick up these fatty acids from prey. The original source is algae.
Algae is not a human food, but we're running out of options. I have a feeling we'll be farming algae pretty soon.
Urgelt 3 years ago
I'm really not very wise. Just... experienced.
Anyway my videos aren't about me; I'm nobody special, and I'm not particularly deserving of praise. They're about ideas.
The least of us is exalted when a good idea takes hold in his head. The trick is to distinguish the good ideas from the bad ones. I'm afraid most of us need help with that - me included.
Urgelt 3 years ago
I'm glad you found something to interest you, Perscriptions.
No need to apologize for your English. I am honored that you have made the effort to communicate in my language, and you do it very well. Thank you!
Urgelt 3 years ago
Wow, thanks for the information. Grape Seed oil is great for salad dressing, look it up and decide foryourself
DeathJr2006 3 years ago
"Pursue variety:" is one of my recommendations (it appears later in the HE series).
There are certainly valuable nutrients in grape seed oil, and there is nothing wrong in including it in your diet. But it would be a mistake to restrict your oil consumption to only that, I think. My advice? Emphasize olive and coconut oils, eat nuts and seeds (unprocessed, organic). You can also get fats from animal sources, but that raises a whole slew of questions that need answering, in my view.
Urgelt 3 years ago
Interesting, thanks!
crisam17 3 years ago
Welcome!
Urgelt 3 years ago
Hi Urgelt :) Wow that is an interesting subject about the fact that saturated fats made the pigs lean and muscular but the polyunsaturated fats made them fat! I don't wish to place any pressure on you to give an answer to this but what kind of foods with saturated fats do you think would be quite beneficial?
Andyc18 3 years ago
I *think* - and please understand, I'm not an expert and I'm still learning - that the following fats provide strong nutritive value: - Olive and coconut oils. - Animal fats (as from milk, eggs, meat). - Nuts and seeds, preferably raw in most cases. - Fish oil.
Out of that list, fish oil and olive oil contain some unsaturated fats, but good ones, according to quite a lot of research.
On my "avoid" list are temperate crop oils such as soybean oil, corn oil, safflower oil.
Urgelt 3 years ago
When choosing foods, there are two additional principles that are vital.
One is avoiding toxins. Cooking produces them, so if it's safe to eat a food raw, eat it raw. Organic foods are lower in toxins, too.
The other is pursuing variety. It's no good to settle on "one saturated fat" and flog it. The truth is that we have not even discovered all of the nutrients cells need. Our best hope of satisfying our nutritional needs is to eat lots of different foods.
Urgelt 3 years ago
That's why I obtain saturated fats - which are necessary building blocks for healthy cells and cellular membranes - from a variety of sources.
For most of my life, I ignored coconuts, and a lot of Americans are like me, I think. That was a mistake. It's a very good food source. I now include organic coconut oil and organic low-temperature-dried coconut meat in my regular diet. But I still obtain fats from many other sources.
Urgelt 3 years ago
Hello Sir, Do you think that mustard oil is good for cooking. I have recently started using mustard oil in diet.
bhaktambar 3 years ago
Erucic acid in mustard oil is controversial. Some experts think it may be harmful to the heart if consumed regularly.
The pungent odor resulting from mixing ground mustard seeds with water or vinegar comes from allyl isothiocyanate, which is a no-joke toxin. Mustard plants use it to kill chewing insects. It's also been used as a chemical warfare agent.
I recommend using mustard oil sparingly to enhance the flavor of occasional dishes, and relying on other oils for primary nutrition.
Urgelt 3 years ago
wut r good ways to detox ur body from all of this garbage
fnstpl 3 years ago
If you stop taking in unhealthy chemicals, drugs, hormones, and toxins commonly found in industrially-processed foods, and drink plenty of water, your body will gradually detoxify itself of most of those substances.
Choose organic. Eat most of your fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds uncooked. Minimize meat and dairy.
Don't buy detox products on-line or in health food stores unless your doctor recommends you use them. Most of those products are scams. Don't waste your money.
Urgelt 3 years ago
i agree with you i just think it is so damn scandulous how the fda is apart of all the bs
fnstpl 3 years ago
It's corruption, in my opinion. It's completely opposite to the morals we preach to each other in America, opposite to the values we insist on teaching our kids, opposite to our understanding of ourselves as a nation.
I suppose we're a bit naive in the US. We don't demand integrity in government; we just assume it's going to be there. That attitude has made us vulnerable to the worst abuses imaginable.
Urgelt 3 years ago
This is really interesting, and you put your point accross really well. this is the first of your videos that i've watched and i'm really interested to see the rest :)
Florence111 3 years ago
Thanks, Florence. I'll look forward to your comments and questions.
Be sure to read comments from other viewers. The discussion on a video is often the best part.
Urgelt 3 years ago
This is correct. Why do we like the sweet ripe pear more then the sour green one? Why do we like fruit more then vegatables? Bacon more then either? Because when we either had more then we could realistically eat or nothing at all, having a preference for high calorie food and the ability to pack it away en mass was a real survivial advantage. That same trait is now a major pain in the butt. Our low activity lifestyles just make that even more obvious
realsamwise 3 years ago
Agreed. We crave sugar because it was so hard to get for our ancestors, and finding some conferred a survival advantage. That's working against us now, big-time. Toss in desk jobs and TV hypnotism, and you have a real health problem.
Urgelt 3 years ago
Human beings have spent most of their existance living not knowing where their next meal was coming from. A good percent still do. The same natural instinct that makes us fill up on the highist calorie food possible while it is there knowing that there will be a time when it won't be works against us when we live in a world where food is only a few steps away all the time.
realsamwise 3 years ago
Yep, but I think it's more complicated.
Our distant ancestors were also very active - except during famine, drought, or when ill or injured. Inactivity equaled emergency.
I think our bodies respond to inactivity by improving fat storage efficiency and stepping up hunger, to make sure every calorie that can be scrounged, will be.
For this reason, diet alone probably can never succeed, no matter how excellent. Being active is essential to controlling cravings and defeating obesity.
Urgelt 3 years ago
Thanks for the quick response!
Reason I asked was because after seeing this video, I discovered the fish-oil capsules wich I use contains polyunsaturated fat. I got the impression that thats the type of fat you warned about.
Ill definately give coconut oil a try! Thanks for good videos!
xaxisian 3 years ago
Olive oil contains some polyunsaturated fats, too. So do some nuts - like walnuts, which I'm convinced are a useful source of nutrients. And, as you pointed out, fish oil does, too.
So, yeah. All polyunsaturated oils are not bad. I kind of glossed over that point in the video, but it's come up in the comments more than once.
That's why I always tell people, read the comments. The comments are often more interesting than my videos.
Urgelt 3 years ago
This is interesting, but it also maby makes me more confused. Does this mean that I should get rid of the fish-oil capsules and grinded flax seeds I thought I was treating my body with??
xaxisian 3 years ago
Good question.
Fish oil is a very good source of the Omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA. I use it myself, and recommend it to others.
Flax is probably an inferior source of Omega-3. There is evidence that humans do not metabolize it very well.
But I include flax in my diet, too. Why? Because I pursue variety in nutrition. Science is still discovering essential nutrients and positive health benefits from various foods. Much is still unknown. Pursuing variety is a therefore a good tactic.
Urgelt 3 years ago
That said, there is enough evidence to warn me away from temperate-crop unsaturated oils. Our ancestors did not evolve consuming these foods, and the arguments for their health benefits advanced by food industry advocates don't convince me.
As for hydrogenated fats, also called trans-fats, they're poisonous.
I rely mostly on coconut oil, olive oil, nuts and seeds, and animal fats (eggs and, sparingly, milk products) for my fat intake.
Urgelt 3 years ago
hey Urgelt, I'm growing to love healthy food. Here in Germany it's quite hard, in a normal store you find next to nothing. But I'm becoming creative, and am inventing a lot of new recipes with the ingredients I want to eat. Delicious is e.g. tomatoes filled with spinach (and basil, olive oil); or whole wheat spaghetti with tuna! :)
I also find the Harvard healthy food pyramid very useful, and live by it at the moment.
cheetah5619 3 years ago
The Harvard healthy food pyramid is a clear improvement over the US Food and Drug Administration version.
There are problems with it, though.
For one thing, it does not mention that industrial processing reduces nutritive value (in fact, may reduce it so much it's practically like eating a poison).
For another, its selection of "healthy" oils includes corn, soybean, canola, and other temperate crop oils which I think are far less healthy than tropical oils like olive, coconut, sesame.
Urgelt 3 years ago
Third, Harvard does not address the Omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA, which I think should be considered daily essential nutrients. They're only available from fish, krill and plankton sources.
Fourth, Harvard fails to mention that avoiding toxins, drugs and hormones in food is healthier.
Fifth, there's no controversy in science in concluding that a balanced vegetarian diet is more healthy. Harvard forgot to mention it.
Those are examples of what I see as serious flaws in Harvard's approach.
Urgelt 3 years ago
Yes, I also think those points are very important. I do have one question, which is quite important to me: I do not understand, why potatoes are listet right at the top - surely potatoes are healthy?
cheetah5619 3 years ago
Consume potatoes very sparingly.
There's a ton of starchy carbs in the interior. Not a good thing to consume in large amounts.
Most of the nutrition is in the skins, so the best tactic is to buy the smallest potatoes you can find (more skin, less starch). Go easy on butter or sour cream, calories add up fast from those foods.
Urgelt 3 years ago
Thankyou Urgelt, Thankyou!
TheTwoEducators 3 years ago
You're welcome TTE.
Urgelt 3 years ago
Thank you for your time and trouble :)
cheetah5619 3 years ago
It's not much trouble, honest. I'm glad you found it helpful.
Urgelt 3 years ago
Thank you so much for your answer! You have really helped me. I have watched the whole of your healthy eating series, which is the best information source about a healthy lifestyle I have found so far! Great job. I would like to ask you, what you eat for breakfast? If you eat bread, what do you eat on it, if not much cheese or marmelade? And I have read one should only eat fruit in the morning, because it's better for your digestion, as it uses less energy to digest. What do you think?
cheetah5619 3 years ago
American tradition places certain foods at certain meals. Cereals, milk, fruit juice, eggs - breakfast. Sandwiches - lunch. Cooked meals - supper.
I don't eat that way at all. I want to avoid ruts as much as possible. Pursuing variety means no iron-bound habits.
Today breakfast was two hard-boiled eggs and a glass of cherry juice. Yesterday I ate organic spinach-cheese lasagna for breakfast. (Processed food, but I do accept some compromises in food choices.)
Urgelt 3 years ago
Sometimes I mix sunflower seeds, pine nuts, walnuts, almonds, coconut flakes, raisins, dried cranberries, and an ounce or two of organic muesli and munch on it dry. Each time I do this I vary the recipe - adding in other nuts, frozen organic blueberries, etc.
Plain organic yogurt sweetened with a pinch of stevia, a dash of vanilla extract, and mixed with some frozen fruit (strawberries, blueberries, pineapple, etc.) is good.
Use your imagination. Don't try to engineer new ruts, be creative.
Urgelt 3 years ago
--> because it's not easy to digest those two different food types together (or e.g. bread with cheese)
What do you think?
cheetah5619 3 years ago
I think that debate in nutrition encapsulates perfectly our dilemma as consumers.
Yes, milk products are hard to digest (or impossible for lactose-intolerant people), and studies have shown that drinking it can *reduce* your calcium supply. And if you ignore those irratations, even organic milk has hormones in it which can accelerate some cancers. Get your milk from non-organic sources, and it's going to be loaded with antibiotics and other drugs, and even *more* hormones.
Urgelt 3 years ago
And yet - it's also true that milk is an extremely rich source of all sorts of nutrients. It has to be. Calfs grow on the stuff before they can eat a single blade of grass.
But whether it's good for an adult of another species to consume it regularly - not in its raw form, but transformed by heat and provided additives, which alters its chemical composition - remains an open question.
Urgelt 3 years ago
My answer? In my diet milk products are minimized, but not eliminated. I consume small amounts of various cheeses, yogurt and cottage cheese, mostly organic. I do not use milk on cereal.
As for muesli and bread: the more processing that is done to grains, the worse their nutritive value. Bread - even whole-grain bread - is very highly processed. Muesli tends to be less processed (but it depends on the manufacturer).
I try to stay with minimally-processed grain sources.
Urgelt 3 years ago
So what does the debate over milk and cereal tell us?
It tells us that we are still in the "investigation" phase of science. We have not really figured out how cells work, chemically. We do not have a firm grasp of how nutrients affect their, and our, health.
In nutrition, advice is built on a tower of assumptions. No matter who you listen to, some of those assumptions are probably wrong.
Including my advice.
Urgelt 3 years ago
Which is: - Aggressively pursue variety (narrow diets are more likely to contain nutritive holes which lead to cravings and poor health). - Try to obtain foods which are not industrially processed. - Avoid food additives and foods treated with drugs and poisons. - Cook only what you must cook to make something edible and safe (the latter rule mostly applies to animal flesh and eggs). - Minimize animal food sources. - Choose organic as much as possible.
Urgelt 3 years ago
I've said some other things in this series, but those recommendations are at the core of my advocacy.
Urgelt 3 years ago
hello Urgelt, thank you so much for that video! I am glad to have found something to get started on, finding information on healthy eating - I will watch your other videos.
I have recovered from a slight eating disorder (18-year old girl), and have now decided to eat HEALTHY... just, everyone says something different! I am eating whole-meal, fruit, salad and e.g. pasta without sauces...
And now I've come across people saying, one shouldn't eat e.g. muesli together with milk! -->
cheetah5619 3 years ago
thanks! ...and the best drink is the coconut water! ... do you know?
bananartista 3 years ago
I'd love to have a supply of fresh coconuts, for the water and the flesh. It's a very good food. But coconuts in my location are expensive and... well, old. They have to travel a long way.
Interesting fact about coconuts. In WWII, doctors in the Pacific discovered that immature (green) coconut water works as a substitute for blood plasma. It's sterile, has the right balance of electrolytes and glucose, the right pH, and is tolerated well when infused.
Urgelt 3 years ago
here in italy i find coconuts at very cheap prize. 1 euro and 20 once only. i always drink their water. but how can i recognize if they are young coconut only from the endocarp? ...and the mature coconut water is worse?
stay fresh!
(b)ananartista SBUFF
bananartista 3 years ago
Oh, no, that's not what I meant. I think coconuts are best consumed ripe, and the milk from a mature coconut is delicious.
I was just tossing out an amusing anecdote about coconuts. Not many people know that green coconut milk can be used as a blood plasma substitute.
Urgelt 3 years ago
interesting.
gerry2345 3 years ago
When I say I eat mostly peanuts I mean that most of my calorie intake is based on peanuts, approximately %65. The rest of the calories are from fruits and vegetables. Now when you keep in mind that most peanuts are very high in calories, and most fruits and vegetables aren't, well things kind of balance out for me. Im just hoping I dont get peanut intoxication :) oh and thnx for answering, very helpful and interesting stuff.
tatkonerez 3 years ago
You'd do better to diversify.
Nutrition is more like constructing a building than feeding wood to a fire. You can't compensate for a shortage of roofing tiles with an overabundance of drywall, and you can't make up for a lack of Omega-3 fatty acids with extra protein.
Cells need a great many nutrients. If you over-emphasize one food, it's always at the expense of the rest.
Urgelt 3 years ago
I made an experiment by dieting mostly on roasted peanuts. Although peanuts are really high in fat, I've been getting leaner and leaner (we're talking six pack). I do exercise daily, but fat loss was a clear response to my diet change. Now, I'm not sure if the peanut fat has the same consistency as the coconut fat since, frankly, I'm kind of lazy to do the research right now. But I had to share this since I don't really hear people talking about dieting on peanuts.
tatkonerez 3 years ago
Living mostly on peanuts is what I call a nutrient-restricted diet (as opposed to a calorie-restricted diet). You are, in essence, starving yourself, since your body requires many more nutrients than are found in any single food source.
Nutrient-restricted diets can produce weight loss, but they are incredibly dangerous to health, and they eventually generate uncontrollable cravings (naturally, since you're starving).
Urgelt 3 years ago
Peanuts are a good food source - in moderation. Living on peanuts is suicidal.
I have not read any studies about peanut oil, its health benefits, or its effect on weight. Doesn't mean they don't exist. I'm a conversationalist, not an expert.
Urgelt 3 years ago
wow thats really cool. im a young teenager and learning this was really helpful.
akidforever9 3 years ago
I hope you will see this as a starting point for further research and learning, AKF9, rather than an end point.
Even more important, I hope you'll treat what I have said, and other sources, too, with skepticism. Read widely. Look for commercial interests associated with each opinion - many voices on the Internet and elsewhere are flogging sales of a product, not presenting objective information. Where possible, go to the source scientific studies and absorb what they are saying.
Urgelt 3 years ago
corn syrup is America's cheap method for making products sweeter. boycott corn syrup.
modernlifechews 3 years ago
Good idea.
There's a documentary about that; you can find a trailer for it on YouTube. Search for "King Corn."
Urgelt 3 years ago
"Pig Fatten Coconut." LOL.
Novobloom 3 years ago
you look like stonewall jackson, cool
ahardy5891 4 years ago
Hi Urgelt. I am really enjoying watching your vidoes. What is your opinion on using extra virgin olive oil for daily cooking purposes?
s2syed 4 years ago
Well, "extra" has no meaning. Either it's virgin (not heat-treated) or it isn't. Aside from that, it's very beneficial to regularly include olive oil in your diet.
You lose some of the health benefit, though, by cooking with it. Heat alters it. I prefer to use it right out of the bottle on salads.
Urgelt 4 years ago
Yes I agree. Fruit does contain sugar but it's natural sugar. A typical apple or orange is mostly water. Yes, bananas are classified as being high glycemic index meaning they will cause blood sugar to rise but it's near impossible to get fat from eating fruit. Do you agree?!
jaymaccool 4 years ago
Not entirely.
Natural fruit is healthier - much healthier - than refined sugar. There are plenty of useful nutrients in fruits that are absent in sugar.
But any food that causes blood sugar to quickly spike, then fall, can produce sugar cravings.
As always, the key is moderation.
Urgelt 4 years ago
When I visited the US a few years ago I was really shocked by the ingredients in food, like high fructose corn syrup. Even in Britain we don't have that, though there is an obesity crisis because of all the sugar that's in food.
I also have concerns about Codex Alimentarius.
capricious71 4 years ago
Yes, it's gotten insane in the US, though as you pointed out, it's only a little better in Great Britain.
Ignorance is the food industry's best friend. Talk to people! Education, whether formal or informal, can change consumer demand and turn this around.
Urgelt 4 years ago
Heres what I follow. It is very simple.
70% fruits, 10% veg salads (huge), 10% raw nuts, 10% fresh Alaskan salmon steaks, sashimi rotating with 5 raw egg yolks/day.
This provides clean, healthy cholesterol, clean fats, clean protien, all vitamins, all minerals, dha, epa. etc.
The idea is cooking changes everything to a toxin. Salmon steaks are the only thing I cook.
invista360 4 years ago
Raw foods have toxins, too, you know. But I agree, heat will form carcinogens and toxins where none existed. I think raw foods are, on average, better nutrition, and the only cooking I do is the bare minimum required to render food edible and safe.
Were I you, I'd eat fewer fruits and more vegetables. You're taking in a lot of sugar in that fruit. I'd also be thinking about minimizing mercury intake.
Urgelt 4 years ago
I follow the Native North American diets. It's a proven method to live to be very old and be healthy the whole way. I may not know about all the contents and details, but I know it works.
Solechnaya 4 years ago
fewer fruits because of sugar intake. you are mistaken.
fitzbaby2003 4 years ago
I follow the native North American diets. They consist of 80% of meats, fats and grease. 20% other foods like fruits and vegatables. With this diets, one can live to be easily 95 years old and be healthy for the whole trip.
Solechnaya 4 years ago
Interesting about the coconut oil. I've never heard polyunsaturated fats were good. I've heard monounsaturated fats are "good" though, as far as fats are concerned.
cjclifford 4 years ago
Certain unsaturated fats reduce blood serum cholesterol levels. But cholesterol is only part of the riddle of artherosclerosis. Deposits form on artery walls at stress points that show signs of damage, not elsewhere. Why do they weaken?
Studies have shown that unsaturated fats also reduce cell wall membrane thickness. Could this be a cause of weakened arterial walls?
The conclusion that certain unsaturated fats are beneficial may be premature.
Urgelt 4 years ago
artery breakdown is caused by not consuming the minimum 200mg of vitamin c in the form of fruits not in synthetic pill form. Collagen is the glue of all tissue especially capillary leakage.
True vitamin c from fruit source needs to also accompany the amino acids lysine and proline to make collagen.
For this I use raw egg yolk or brazil nuts or sashimi (protien) and eat 1 orange, 1 kiwi and drink half a lemon in water each day. (Vit. C) This is needed every day.
invista360 4 years ago
I like your point about obtaining vitamin C in natural food.
Have you seen studies indicating a relationship between amount consumed and disease avoidance? I have not.
Urgelt 4 years ago
I have found coconut oil very expensive for my budget. I do enjoy using coconut milk in all kinds of things. I also like to eat whole coconuts. How do these compare to coconut oil?
BricknerGuitars 4 years ago
It's my opinion that eating raw coconuts is the absolute best way to obtain their nutritive value. But of course if you want to cook with oil, raw coconuts won't help.
Olive oil, however, is known as an exceptionally healthy oil, is readily available, and is not terribly expensive. Be sure to get virgin olive oil, otherwise it's probably been heat treated and thus may be chemically altered.
Urgelt 4 years ago
Completely agree with you Urgelt. In my effort for healthier mind and body I have switched completely to organic coconut oil, flax oil, fish oil and olive oil while eliminating corn, vegetable, canola, soybean, cottonseed and most animal saturated oils. This not only helps with the Omega3 to Omaga6 ratio but I shed 50lb as well. Thank you for the great videos.
oneyaker 4 years ago
I've been cooking with coconut oil for the past month and I've actually lost 5 lbs:) Now, I am running low and I must go out and get some more! :) Thank you for this information, dear. Without you, I never would have decided to use coconut oil.
celestialsam 4 years ago
Urgelt, so have you had less cravings since you started using coconut oil?
Duchova 4 years ago
I think so. But it's a subjective judgment, I have to admit. And I've made a lot of other dietary changes.
I believe firmly that if you remove bad foods from your diet permanently, consume only nutritious foods in a balanced way, and don't let yourself fall into a rut, you will find cravings easier to manage.
Urgelt 4 years ago
have you got any info/sources about what you think is a healthy diet?
dawniymarie 4 years ago
Sure - that's what the Healthy Eating series is about. I've provided my ideas, plus a few HTML links and search terms for further information.
There's also interesting discussion in the comments for each video.
Finally, on my profile page, you can access my "favorite" videos, which include more than a few excellent videos about nutrition from other YouTubers.
Urgelt 4 years ago
thanks Urgelt, when I wrote the comment I'd only seen one of your videos, watched quite a few now. . . . very interesting - just what I was wanting :o)
I'll go and see your favourites too.
:o)
dawniymarie 4 years ago
Urgelt,
Please look at this link.
Google: Waisays dot com. (nothing for sale)
Incredible amount of scientific compiled data about raw eating and how cooking distorts all types of food molecules.
invista360 4 years ago
You're welcome Urgelt
Razwell 4 years ago
The Anti Coronary Club 1966 is one of the clinical intervention trials thta saw 8 deaths from coronary heart disease is the participants radnomized to POLYUNSATURATED CANOLA OIL. No deaths from coronary heart disease were reported in the participants randomized to animal fats.
So YES These oils are causal. They cause arterial damage.
Razwell 4 years ago
There certainly are some studies out there that point in this direction. I think these oils are causal.
I still think it's inadequately studied for absolute certainty, however. I'd love to see more science done to untangle exactly which oils produce which health effects.
Urgelt 4 years ago
Check out the video "Calling Out Dr. Oz". The whole anti- cholesterol/anti- saturated fat idea was incorrect from the start . The whole thing was started by one severely misguided man named Ancel Keys.
Dr. Oz should admite he is incorrect on his anti saturated fat stance. Randomized clinical dietary intervention trials have REPEATEDLY FAILED to lower coronary heart disease mortality or incidence.
Razwell 4 years ago
That's a terrific video, Razwell, thanks for the tip.
Urgelt 4 years ago
Your ultimate reference is the Britannica Book of the Year for 1946? Have you read it?
I mistakenly used "pig fat coconut" at first. A few research abstracts came up. One said pigs gained weight fastest with a mixture of coconut and soybean oils. Another said that coconut oil in feed made the pig's fat hard while soybean oil made it soft. There wasn't a shortage of fat in the pigs fed coconut oil, apparently. Is it possible you're wrong?
drdavid600 4 years ago
Possible? Yes.
Very little science has been done to sort out the specific health effects of different vegetable oils. Lots have looked at "saturated fats," but it turns out they looked at animal fats. My conclusion is based on sketchy information.
I *think* I've drawn the correct conclusion.
Soybean oil stimulates cravings. Any high-calorie food combined with stimulated cravings is going to cause weight gain.
Urgelt 4 years ago
Vege oil: canola,corn,sunflower,peanut,etc contain omega6,which we need.But most of us r alrdy eatin 20-50x more than we need. reduce vege oil asmuchas possible, replace with oliveoil,preferably coconut oil. Transfat shld be avoided at alltime.(so its better not to heat vege oil)It is contained mostly in fast food, cookie, friedfoods,mayonnaise,margarine (all food that contain hydrogenated oil, vegetable oil, or shortenings). Transfat leads to diabetes,heart disease, cancer n lot more. google it
omoshiroii 4 years ago
Omega-6 is an inflammatory agent; in excess, it's not very good for health.
Even Omega-3 is not all the same. Studies show that the more beneficial compounds, EPA and DHA, are really only found in abundance in fish oil. ALA, found in flax seeds, is metabolized into DHA, but not efficiently.
Trans-fats (also called hydrogenated fats, which is the term I tend to use) are a death sentence.
You're very well informed!
Urgelt 4 years ago
Coconut oil is the best to cook with because it is the most stable under heat. Vege oils are unstable and converted to TRANS-FAT when cooked. Saturated fat was blamed because scientists failed to separately distinguished trans-fat from saturated fat.
We all need fats from good sources to help our body processes such as mineral n vits absorptions and lube our joints n produce essential hormones, etc. However the amount and type are very dependent on our own metabolic type n biochemistry.
omoshiroii 4 years ago
I agree, and studies have also failed to distinguish between the different types of saturated fats. It really goes without saying that industrial meat production, with its antibiotics, hormones, drugs, contaminated feed, and unsanitary conditions, is going to skew the results if such distinctions are not made.
Urgelt 4 years ago
Interesting
wupeide 4 years ago
You know I feel better after using Urgelt's dietary advice.
Razwell 4 years ago
So did I! Yet that proves nothing either. :P
How well you feel is influenced by thousands of factors, some of them psychological and psychosomatic. Which of them are causative? How many of them exist which you don't even know about?
Anecdotes are interesting to scientists mainly as a way to highlight questions that need further study.
You see why I'm so cautious about declaring truths and falsehoods?
Urgelt 4 years ago
Saturated fat HAS bee