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Everyone can do it. Here is my advice:
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Good luck!
Fat makes food taste good.
PSA: the low fat movement is total bs
> as long as it's the good kind.
Yep, saturated fats from animals.
She has a unique perspective.
She was a vegetarian for 25 years, so she has a ton of personal experience with that way of eating.
Now she is an advocate for the LCHF diet, & has been able to maintain a lower weight in middle age (as well as better blood work) on that diet versus the vegetarian diet.
Her book "The Big Fat Surprise" is not a diet book, but rather a history/research book. The whole book details how we got to the conclusion that dietary fat (& saturated fats) raise cholesterol & cause heart disease, through flawed epidemiological studies & data. She subsequently details why that information is most likely incorrect, & how the resulting low fat diet advice issued by the government has likely led to the obesity crisis we face today.
Reading her book will definitely let you know that she's done her research on the subject. It is extremely detailed to say the least, & takes you through the history of the subject step by step by step....
If you'd like to look at her work in more detail, I'd start by taking a look at these items:
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The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
Most recent OP-ED
NYTimes.com - Counting calories won't reduce obesity. So why are we requiring restaurants to post them?
Videos
ABC Nightline video piece
Joe Rogan Experience podcast - Nina Teicholz
& here is her BIO from her website
>Nina Teicholz is an investigative science journalist and author. Her international bestseller, The Big Fat Surprise has upended the conventional wisdom on dietary fat–especially saturated fat–and challenged the very core of our nutrition policy.
>The executive editor of “The Lancet” wrote, “this is a disquieting book about scientific incompetence, evangelical ambition, and ruthless silencing of dissent that has shaped our lives for decades…researchers, clinicians, and health policy advisors should read this provocative book.”
>A review in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition said, “This book should be read by every scientist…[and] every nutritional science professional.”
>In the BMJ (British Medical Journal), the journal’s former editor wrote, “Teicholz has done a remarkable job in analysing [the] weak science, strong personalities, vested interests, and political expediency” of nutrition science.
>The Big Fat Surprise was named a 2014 Best Book by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Mother Jones, and Library Journal. Teicholz’s writing has also been published in The BMJ, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Independent, The New Yorker, and The Los Angeles Times among others.
>In addition to these credentials, Teicholz is the Executive Director of The Nutrition Coalition, a non-profit group that promotes evidence-based nutrition policy. She has testified before the Canadian Senate and U.S. Department of Agriculture about the need for reform of dietary guidelines.
>Teicholz attended Yale and Stanford where she studied biology and majored in American Studies. She has a master’s degree from Oxford University and served as associate director of the Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development at Columbia University. A former vegetarian of 25+ years, from Berkeley, CA, Teicholz now lives in New York city with her husband and two sons.
It sounds more like you should get a basic understanding of current nutrition science, and what keto is in general.
Recommended reading:
Compilation of science studies mostly related to keto:
The thrust is that we don't really understand human nutrition, and the attempts at doing honest, scientific research on nutrition through the 20th century has been bogged down in prejudice and confirmation bias, as well as good-intentions.
For a longer answer, I highly recommend [The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz]. (https://www.amazon.com/Big-Fat-Surprise-Butter-Healthy/dp/1451624433/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483752210&sr=8-1&keywords=the+big+fat)
It is an extraordinary piece of journalism about nutrition science through the 20th century. It focuses on how we came to vilify fat of all kinds, but it is extremely illuminating about how nutrition science itself has functioned (and malfunctioned). It clearly explains how the field has become so muddled with information, how it is currently trying to self-correct, and how the reader can be better informed about understanding health claims.
Although, I don't strictly think a five-year old could read the book. At least, not your average five-year old....
My advice:
Bonus advice:
I'm a big fan of the "slow and steady" approach. Make little changes, take some time, observe how it affects you. There's no rush to dump weight off; it's more likely to be permanent if you're not obsessing and just "keeping calm and ketoing on".
Bonus resources, if you want to have a deeper understanding:
Everything sold as a "vegetable oil" is really a seed oil.
To OP's point, they are highly inflammatory and quickly become rancid when exposed to light and/or heat.
Most of these seed oils are extracted using industrial processes that are relatively new (less than 150 years old).
We just didn't evolve eating them, so we aren't adapted to process them as efficiently as animal fat.
"Fruit oils" like avocado, olive and coconut, are generally better for you.
Further, if you're eating a plant, like broccoli, you're only eating trace amounts of fat. My prior post was to clarify OP's point because the post responding to him was conflating eating plants (which also may not be good for you) with his real point about avoiding seed oils.
Animal fat, is much healthier. And fat from ruminant animals like cows, lamb, etc, is the best, because it contains all the right sub components (Omega fatty acids, etc.) in the correct ratios.
Nina Teicholz breaks it all down in this video.
Some book shopping is heavily recommended. A matter of health.
If you want to know the science as well as anecdotal evidence supporting low carb and against the Standard American Diet, here's a list of books for you to read:
Jimmy Moore is a lot more anecdotal but it's a good place to start if you want a simple way to understand keto, in my opinion. The rest contain lots of studies and evidence to convince you.
Taubes is also bringing out a new book. I've not yet read it but I've certainly pre-ordered!
The Case Against Sugar
On youtube, Cultivate Health and Beauty. It's targeted towards women and their channel is not about being anti-vegan, but they are pretty anti-vegan. Also Primal Edge Health. I watch Sv3ridge for the exvegan videos and the Epitomy of Malnourishment videos but be careful in venturing to anything outside of that. For podcasts, listen to Bulletproof Radio, Fitness Confidential, The Paleo Solution, Primal Blueprint Podcast. For books, The Vegetarian Myth and the works of Weston A. Price. Look for people with an internet presence who are paleo. Most a very educated about veganism. Nina Teicholz work is worth mentioning too. She did a great breakdown of all the problems with that piece of propaganda "documentary" What the Health.
For criticism, I recommend The Big Fat Surprise.
Ignore mainstream nutrition. If you're interested some books are The Big Fat Surprise, The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living, either of Taubes' books, or you can watch Youtube lectures by Phinney, Volek, Taubes etc. This page is also fairly good on fats.
Fats are extraordinarily complicated in structure, oil composition, metabolism, etc. The best bet is to eat older fats and not newer processed oils because we quite literally evolved eating animal fats exclusively, not shortening hydrogenated from the refined oil extracted from the unused excess seeds that fell out of cotton plants.
Omega 3:
I loved this book.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1451624433?psc=1&ref=yo_pop_mb_pd_title
And this one, as well.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1400033462?psc=1&ref=yo_pop_mb_pd_title
I haven't read any books on IF, but the transformation my body went through was enough for me on that front. 😊
Before you start reducing your fat intake and letting carbs back in, there's a book I recommend you check out first. The relationship that carbs and fat have with your body is about more than just weight loss or satiation. That's just the tip of the iceberg.
Get this book and all your fears will be allayed. They will be replaced by a whole new set of fears. https://smile.amazon.com/Big-Fat-Surprise-Butter-Healthy/dp/1451624433
Read The Big Fat Surprise and learn.
It has a ton of documentation, and rips the cover off the lies we were told about fat. It speaks plainly of the lies in studies and the skewed reporting of studies (especially Ancel Keys, who only reported data on the countries that fit his predetermined "truth").
In essence, mostly at the insistence of Ancel Keys, the United States embarked on a human experiment. Fat use went down, carb (especially sugar) consumption rose. So did heart disease and other diseases.
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I've seen this conversation going on for some time, but haven't read all of it. This is the second time, though, that I've seen you push the long debunked idea that eating meat leads to heart disease. There's simply no truth to it. Heart disease results from elevated blood sugar and insulin binding to it. Here's a pretty accessible article on it: http://preventdisease.com/news/12/030112_World-Renown-Heart-Surgeon-Speaks-Out-On-What-Really-Causes-Heart-Disease.shtml
You are trying to perpetuate the same fraud that Ancel Keys pushed all those years ago that has been widely debunked. I recommend Good Calories, Bad Calories from Gary Taubes (or any of his YouTube lectures). I also recommend The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz.
I'm going to use this comment, since it's at the top, to show you how you're not trying to actually understand. Calories in < calories out = weight loss isn't how that works since 100 calories of broccoli is not equal to 100 calories of a donut.
Books such as The Calorie Myth and Why We Get Fat and The Big fat Surprise very clearly and scientifically explain why eating an excess of calories (aka calories in/calories out) isn't what makes you fat. Through out this thread all you can say is eat less and stop putting food in your mouth. But that's not even it. That's your interpretation of fat people. Your interpretation is skewed.
>A Harvard epidemiologist named Ancel Keys fabricated some data linking heart disease to saturated fat intake. Taubes refers to this as the “Lipid Hypothesis”2 and was able to convince many scientists, the media, the public, non-governmental organizations (such as the AMA & AHA), and ultimately policy-makers at the highest levels of government to accept his flawed ideas.
This one is verifiably correct.
>Contrary to mainstream thinking saturated fats, especially those coming from animal sources are actually quite good for you.
Largely correct
>Most diseases of modern civilization including obesity and cancer can be attributed to carbohydrates.
Obesity ==> Sugar? Maybe. Refined carbohydrate? Maybe. All carbohydrates? No. Most diseases? No evidence. Cancer? No evidence
>Consuming excess calories does not make one fat, nor do burning excess calories make one thin.
That one is not true. But Taubes often overstates this position to get copy and make headlines. His nuanced position has, I think, has more validity.
His third book on the subject "The case against sugar" is much less "out there" and tougher to debunk. He shares the same sugar views as Robert Lustig who I do rate. 'Fat Chance' is a good book, and I am looking forward to "The Hacking of the American Mind - Sugar coated Happiness"
Another book that is epically well researched and has not been dubunked is The Big Fat Surprise
Here is the President of the World Heart Federation, and world-renowned cardiologist and epidemiologist discussing recent data and mentioning the book (worth watching the full 20mins)