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Posted by Annette Presley on July 16, 2010
The focus in America on obesity has got about half of all normal weight teens in a panic over their weight and who can blame them? No matter where they go, they see images of 
extremely thin bikini clad women smothered on magazine covers with articles about how to get rid of your thighs, abs and gluts in less than 30 days. Add that to living with a perpetual dieter, watching movies where the hot guy always goes for the thin girl and innocent comments by their physicians many teens end up starving themselves to fit in to the insane thin mold we idolize in this country.
Yes, obesity is a problem, but eating disorders are becoming a growing side effect of our focus on fat. Girls as young as five years old are starting to talk about their weight and the need to diet. My seven year, after a slumber party, asked, “Mom, am I skinny?” At the party, the girls took a shower and they compared their bodies. Not a single one of these seven to eight year old girls were overweight, but they all decided that my daughter was the thinnest and therefore the luckiest. It broke my heart.
We need to step up and start giving these girls a healthy and balanced message because there is more to life than weight. Here are a few tips for parents of teens that I have gathered from working with anorexic girls:
- Stop dieting and don’t let your daughter diet. We have been dieting in this country for over forty years and we are fatter than ever. Diets don’t work. You must make permanent lifestyle changes such as switching to real food instead of processed food, but you need to eliminate the word ‘diet’ from your vocabulary. Focus on the health benefits of food, not the weight loss. For example, ‘we eat butter because it helps us absorb vitamins, minerals and antioxidants,’ or ‘we don’t eat artificially sweetened foods and beverages because they are toxic to our bodies.’ Make it about health, not weight.
- Hide your scale. The last thing a teenage girl needs is a scale to confirm her worst nightmare. Do not let them see you weigh yourself, either.
- Speak to your doctor. Make it very clear to your physician that he/she is not to say anything about your daughter’s weight in front of her. Also, do not allow the doctor to weigh you and your daughter at the same time. I know girls who ended up with anorexia just because of some innocent comment made by a doctor. Many dietitians get into the business because they have an eating disorder and some doctors also suffer from eating disorders or weight fetishes. Your daughter does not need to be burdened with their problems.
- Affirm your daughter. Especially, dads. Make sure you tell your daughter that she is beautiful. Never comment on her weight or your spouse’s weight, even if they are thin. Help your daughter know that she is loved, wanted and accepted because of who she is, not because of how much she weighs or what she looks like.
- Shop for the best look, not the lowest size. Size really doesn’t matter in the scheme of things. Some clothes are made small and some are made larger even though they may be the same size. Get several sizes, try them all on and see what looks best. Keep in mind that you can always tailor an outfit that, say, may be just right in the chest and arms but too large in the waist. Clothes are generic, they were not designed for you or your daughter, so if it doesn’t fit right, the fault is with the assembly line, not you or your daughter. Don’t focus on size, focus on fit.
- Don’t over schedule. Make sure your daughter has time to play and rest. Over scheduling can lead to a feeling of being out of control because there is no time to unwind. Many girls will then control their food intake to an extreme. Limit extra-curricular activities and don’t pressure your daughter to perform. Straight A’s are not worth an eating disorder, nor do they guarantee success in life, so strive for balance, not perfection.
- Ask questions. If and when your daughter comments on her weight, thighs or whatever, don’t just dismiss it with an ‘oh you look fine.’ Ask why she feels that way, what she wants to do about it and what does she think will happen if she does or doesn’t do something, always affirming her in the process and steering away from weight and looks to concentrate on health and wellness.
Genetics does play a role in eating disorders. Some girls are more prone than others. An innocent diet can lead one girl to starve herself while another one will simply lose a few pounds and be done with it. It’s very important for girls to eat the right kinds of fat to keep their brain and hormones functioning right. Avoid vegetable, soy, corn, cottonseed and canola oils and use butter, coconut oil, and olive oil instead. Avoid low fat and fat free foods, so use full fat dairy. Basically, you want to eat real food the way God made it. Don’t take the fat out. Fat is not the enemy and it does not cause obesity.
Annette Presley RD LD CPT, Chief Nutritionist for Liberation Wellness
Annette has been a registered dietitian for over 17 years and discovered several years ago that every thing she learned in school was wrong and the nutrition advice we dispense in this country actually causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity. She is now dedicating her life to getting the truth out so people can live a truly healthy life. She is founder of Find Your Weigh online at findyourweigh.com.
Disclaimer: Annette Presley RD LD provides nutrition advice and counseling regarding lipid disorders that is not universally accepted as evidenced-based practice in dietetics. This nutrition advice is neither sponsored, endorsed, approved nor recommended either by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH) or the American Dietetic Association. As such, prior to beginning nutrition counseling with or suggested by Annette Presley RD LD, it is strongly recommended that you consult your physician.
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Posted by Annette Presley on June 25, 2010
Taking a pill to keep your blood sugar stable may seem like a good idea and easier than changing your health habits, but diabetes medications are not without serious side effects. Meds that increase the production of insulin cause weight gain which can worsen diabetes and meds that modify the effects of carbohydrates cause gastrointestinal problems and liver damage. Poor blood sugar control can also cause problems such as the loss of vision and limbs, kidney failure and death. Are there ways to control blood sugar without drugs?
For people who are not insulin dependent, it is possible to improve blood sugar control through diet, exercise and supplements. These will also help people who are insulin dependent and while they may not eliminate the need for insulin, they may reduce the amount needed, thus improving long term outcomes. Following are 10 steps to better blood sugar control.
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Eat real food and avoid all processed foods. Processed foods contain ingredients such as vegetable oils, high fructose corn syrup and MSG which can cause obesity and worsen blood sugar control. Look for locally grown fruits and vegetables, grass fed meats, unpasteurized milk and free range eggs. Don’t take the fat out of dairy foods. Especially avoid white sugar, white flour and hydrogenated oils.
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Eat the right kind of fat. Natural fats help regulate hormones like insulin. Avoid soy, corn, cottonseed and canola oils and use butter, coconut oil, unfiltered olive oil and palm oils. You may use small amounts of sesame oil and flaxseed oil as well.
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Eat a mineral rich diet. Magnesium, zinc, chromium and other trace minerals help regulate insulin and blood sugar, but most of these minerals are stripped away in processing. Use unprocessed sea salt instead of refined salt and consume homemade bone broths daily and don’t neglect grass fed red meat and organ meats such as liver.
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Eat raw meat, fish and milk. Raw animal foods provide vitamin B6 which is easily destroyed when heated. B6 is necessary for the proper utilization of carbohydrates.
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Limit carbohydrates to 60 -72 grams per day. Carbohydrate is the only nutrient that raises blood sugar necessitating the release of insulin, so if you control carbohydrates, you control blood sugar and insulin levels. Limit grains, legumes, and starchy vegetables to 2 servings or less daily and limit fruit to 1 serving per day. Make sure you eat fat with carbohydrates as fat helps control the release of sugar into the blood stream. You do not need to worry about low GI and high GI foods if you eat plenty of good, healthy fat. Consult the cookbook, Nourishing Traditions to learn the proper preparation methods for carbohydrates.
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Take cod liver oil. Cod liver oil contains vitamins A and D which can help control insulin and diabetic complications like eye and kidney disease. Also, diabetics cannot convert beta carotene to vitamin A very efficiently, so animal sources of vitamin A are necessary. Take enough cod to provide around 20,000 IU of vitamin A daily. The best brand is Blue Ice found only online.
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Take 1 gm per day of evening primrose, borage or black currant oil. These oils provide gamma linoleic acid (GLA), a fatty acid that is difficult for diabetes to manufacture in sufficient quantities.
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Try Gymnemma. Gymnemma is an herb that helps control blood sugar without the side effects that usually come with drugs and it has been shown to lower HgbA1c levels. Take 2 to 3 times per day.
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Take about ¼ tsp of acerola powder twice a day. Acerola provides natural vitamin C. Sugar competes with vitamin C for absorption so diabetics need more vitamin C to stay healthy and avoid complications.
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Exercise daily. It doesn’t have to be strenuous and 20 to 30 minutes will do. Exercise helps utilize carbohydrates reducing the amount of insulin needed to control blood sugar.
Diabetes is a modern disease related to our high intake of carbohydrates and processed foods. Following the above steps will help bring your blood sugar under control and hopefully get you off medications and prevent complications.
Annette Presley RD LD CPT, Chief Nutritionist for Liberation Wellness
Annette has been a registered dietitian for over 17 years and discovered several years ago that every thing she learned in school was wrong and the nutrition advice we dispense in this country actually causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity. She is now dedicating her life to getting the truth out so people can live a truly healthy life. She is founder of Find Your Weigh online at findyourweigh.com.
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Posted by Annette Presley on May 14, 2010
Agave nectar is a relatively new sweetener on the market and all the rage because people think it is healthier than other sweeteners. But is it really better?
It’s true that agave nectar, or aguamiel, is a sweetener that has been used for centuries, but the modern processing of agave is not the same. It is more of a syrup than a nectar and most of the minerals have been removed with modern processing in order to make a more palatable product.
Fructose is a naturally occurring sugar in fruit that has a low glycemic index so we tend to believe it is a healthier sugar. While fructose may produce better blood sugar control than other sugars, it can damage the liver in a way similar to alcohol. Fructose is also the most likely sugar to be stored as fat in the body contributing to obesity. Agave is close to 100% free fructose whereas honey contains around 40% free fructose and real maple syrup less than 1%. (Fructose that is not attached to glucose (glucose + fructose = sucrose or table sugar) is called free fructose and free fructose is worse than the fructose bound to glucose)
When you consider the fact that Agave syrup has had most of the nutrients destroyed in processing along with an extremely high fructose content it becomes clear that this new miracle sweetener is not the best choice for health. All sweeteners need to be used sparingly, but Agave is one sweetener you don’t need at all. Honey and maple syrup are better choices for a liquid sweetener.
Annette Presley RD LD CPT, Chief Nutritionist for Liberation Wellness
Annette has been a registered dietitian for over 17 years and discovered several years ago that every thing she learned in school was wrong and the nutrition advice we dispense in this country actually causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity. She is now dedicating her life to getting the truth out so people can live a truly healthy life. She is founder of Find Your Weigh online at findyourweigh.com.
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Posted by Annette Presley on April 15, 2010
Are you afraid of raw milk?
Are you afraid of a cholesterol reading over 200mg/dl?
Are you afraid you’ll get breast cancer if you don’t submit to regular mammogram screenings?
Are you afraid your bones will break if you don’t take fosamax?
Do you eat margarine because you are afraid of the saturated fat in butter?
Do you eat low fat and fat free foods because you are afraid of dying from heart disease if you don’t?
In America, we are feared and bullied into lowering cholesterol, submitting to mammograms, avoiding saturated fat and cholesterol in foods, drinking pasteurized milk, vaccinating our children and taking unnecessary medication.
Science is supposed to be objective and open to discussing all viewpoints, but that, sadly, is no longer the case. Science is bought and paid for, mostly by the pharmaceutical and food industries. If you disagree with the view they take, you are silenced or ostracized.
I recently battled the American Dietetic Association for my credentials because I no longer believe what I am supposed to teach. I presented the evidence I base my practice on and invited them to show me where I was wrong. I was only interested in the truth, not the politics. They would not even discuss the science with me; instead, their “experts” attacked me personally. I found that I was not allowed to ask a question that had not already been asked and answered and I also was not allowed to disagree with their answer, even though I had valid scientific evidence to disprove their views.
The pharmaceutical industry makes billions annually on cholesterol lowering drugs so they don’t want you thinking for yourself. They want you to blindly accept their view that cholesterol is a disease that needs to be treated. The food industry makes more money on margarine and fake food than they do on butter and unprocessed food so they want you to be afraid to eat real food. Your fear increases their bottom line.
Corporate farms cannot make money on raw milk because healthy raw milk needs to come from clean, grass fed animals, not animals that spend their entire life living in their own excrement. Big business wants you to fear raw milk and they want it outlawed so you won’t have a choice. Raw milk is the only food banned due to the risk of food poisoning despite the fact that more people have been sickened and killed from eating things like spinach, tomatoes, meat, peanut butter and even pasteurized milk.
When we make fear-based decisions, we give up our rights and our freedom. Here are some tips to avoid the fear and live free:
- Ask questions. Don’t automatically accept everything you hear (not even from us), see or read. Take some time to think about it. Who gave the information? What is their bias? What financial ties do they have? What happens to their bottom line if you don’t take the advice? What is their evidence?
- Does this information scare you into thinking a certain way? If you are afraid, do your own research before you decide what to believe. Fear-based decisions are only good if you are about to fall off a cliff or get hit by a car. You should always feel that you have a choice and that you are free to look at all sides.
- Does the information make sense? For example, butter has been around for thousands of years, whereas vegetable oils have only been around 100 years. Heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and cancer have also only been around 100 years. Does it make sense to blame a fat that has been around thousands of years for diseases that have only been around 100 years?
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.
Annette Presley RD LD CPT, Chief Nutritionist for Liberation Wellness
Annette has been a registered dietitian for over 17 years and discovered several years ago that every thing she learned in school was wrong and the nutrition advice we dispense in this country actually causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity. She is now dedicating her life to getting the truth out so people can live a truly healthy life. She is founder of Find Your Weigh online at findyourweigh.com.
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Posted by Annette Presley on April 8, 2010
We live in a world that operates by the motto “go, go, go.” After school, work, laundry, soccer, dance, band practice and PTA meetings, when do we have time to just relax and enjoy life?
Stress plays a huge role in obesity and chronic disease. One of the reasons we are so stressed out is because we have too much to do and no time to unwind. We run from one event to the other and rarely have time to spend with family and friends or in hobbies or leisure. We don’t take time out for ourselves to refresh and energize.
Here a few tips to getting your life back on track so you can balance work with play and rest.
- Seriously evaluate your schedule. Do you really have to do everything you are doing? Are there things you can assign to someone else, drop altogether or pay someone else to do? As much as we would like to believe this world stays afloat because of all our efforts, it doesn’t. Giving up something unnecessary up will not halt progress, but it will improve your quality of life. You are not the only person who can do some of the things you are doing. You may be the only one who can be a mother to your children, but you are not the only one who can do the dishes.
- Learn to say no. We really need to learn this word. You are not obligated to do everything you are asked to do. Really, you are not obligated to do anything someone else asks you to do. You have the right to choose whether or not you even want to do what someone asks you to do. If you can’t say “no,” then say, “let me check my schedule and I’ll get back to you.” This will give you time to think about how this activity will impact your life and the life of your family. It will also give you time to rehearse and get comfortable with your “no.”
- Have a set time for you. You need time to relax and unwind, time to read, think, meditate, smell the flowers or whatever it is you do to distress and take care of your needs.
- Schedule some technology-free time every week. Turn off the cell phone, TV and computer. You will be amazed at how freeing it is not to be tied down to these things even for a little while.
- Don’t forget to play. It is important to engage in fun activities on a regular basis, whether it’s a painting class, playing dolls with your daughter or tennis with your spouse. Play helps you loosen up and relax and it provides contentment which is important for reducing stress.
There is more to life than work. We are meant to enjoy this life and the beautiful things in this world. We are human and we all need some down time. Our health depends on it.
Tell us how you relax and de-stress.
Annette Presley RD LD CPT, Chief Nutritionist for Liberation Wellness
Annette has been a registered dietitian for over 17 years and discovered several years ago that every thing she learned in school was wrong and the nutrition advice we dispense in this country actually causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity. She is now dedicating her life to getting the truth out so people can live a truly healthy life. She is founder of Find Your Weigh online at findyourweigh.com.
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Posted by Annette Presley on March 30, 2010
The government tells us we should exercise 90 minutes a day at moderate intensity to maintain weight, but is this really true? Does exercise help you lose weight?
Most diet programs are based on counting calories going in and calories going out. It seems to make sense that if you eat more calories than you burn you gain weight and if you eat fewer calories than you burn, you lose weight. The problem is that what makes sense on paper doesn’t always make sense inside our bodies.
I swim 3 days a week for about 60-90 minutes. I have noticed that my appetite on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (the days I swim) is more voracious than it is on non-swim days and I end up eating more calories on swim days. So what’s up with that?
My metabolism is pretty set. My body wants to expend a certain amount of energy and it wants to obtain a certain amount of energy from food to balance what is lost. When I exercise, I burn more calories than my metabolism wants to burn so my body sends hunger signals to the brain forcing me to attack the pantry. This happens to everyone. Exercise really does nothing more than leave us ravenously hungry and this is why athletes eat several meals daily.
Does this mean we should not exercise? No. Exercise does have many wonderful benefits, but weight loss is not one of them. We don’t need to bust our butts at the gym and we should not exercise for the purpose of losing weight. That is a battle you will lose, so there is no point even going there. Instead, exercise to have fun like playing tennis with a friend or gardening with your kids, or golfing with your buddies. Swimming is something I thoroughly enjoy and I get to spend time with my hubby since he swims with me. I do not swim to lose weight and I know I’m going to eat more on swim days, so I allow for that and actually enjoy a few extra carbs on swim days.
Find an exercise you really enjoy. You don’t have to pick one type of exercise and avoid everything else. If you love to ride bikes and play basketball and swim, do them all, just not all at once or on the same days. The point is to do what you love. If you don’t like to exercise, then don’t, but don’t sit on the couch all day, either. Your body needs some activity to function properly and to stay in shape for the senior years. Gardening, housecleaning, playing with the kids, taking a walk; all those count. You don’t have to join a gym or take an exercise class you hate. The weight will come off If you eat right, so follow the Liberation Wellness principles and move around a bit to feel good and maintain your independence as you age.
Annette Presley RD LD CPT, Chief Nutritionist for Liberation Wellness
Annette has been a registered dietitian for over 17 years and discovered several years ago that every thing she learned in school was wrong and the nutrition advice we dispense in this country actually causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity. She is now dedicating her life to getting the truth out so people can live a truly healthy life. She is founder of Find Your Weigh online at findyourweigh.com.
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Posted by Annette Presley on March 15, 2010
Which is better, butter or margarine? Anyone can go find a cow, express some milk, shake it up and get butter, but can you make your own margarine? No, not unless you have a lab, hydrogen, a metal catalyst, synthetic vitamins and food coloring available.
Butter provides fatty acids that are antimicrobial. That means butter helps you fight off infections, colds and flu. These saturated fatty acids keep your immune system healthy. Butter also contains vitamin A along with the other fat soluble vitamins D, K and E which boost immune function. Margarine does not contain any healthy or antimicrobial fats and the vitamins added are synthetic so they aren’t as useful to the body as the natural vitamins found in butter.
Butter contains cholesterol which is an antioxidant, the building block of most hormones and it helps with proper brain function, among other things. Margarine is cholesterol free, so you won’t get any brain boosting power from it.
Not everything we hear about margarine is true, however, so to be fair, margarine is not one molecule away from being plastic. The ability of a fat to pack together is called the plasticity of fat. Margarine is a “plastic” fat, like butter, in that it can be molded, shaped and spread. Oil is not a “plastic” fat because it cannot be shaped or packed together. When baking, it is important to consider the “plasticity” of the fat you are using. For example, oil does not make good cookies, but butter does and it has to do with the fact that the butter, left at room temperature for a bit, can be molded and shaped and the oil cannot.
Butter is definitely better than margarine in terms of nutrition and health. It is a naturally occurring fat that has been around for thousands of years while margarine has only been around about 100 years. Ironically, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity have only been around about 100 years as well. (There might be a connection here between fake fat and chronic disease.) Most importantly, butter also tastes better. So, the next time you have a slice of bread or some steamed broccoli, don’t forget to add butter, and lots of it.
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Posted by Annette Presley on February 18, 2010
Guilt Free Eating
The Bible has some great words of wisdom for right thinking that we can apply to eating. Romans 3:20b says, “through the law, we become conscious of sin,” and Romans. 7:5 says that sinful passions are aroused by the law. How does this apply to what we eat?
We view eating chocolate, for example, as sinful and so we set up laws to prevent us from eating chocolate. What we haven’t realized is the laws don’t stop us from indulging in our favorite chocolate bar. On the contrary, the more we are told not to eat the chocolate bar, the more we desire it. We want it and we want it now. We become consumed with the “sin” of eating the chocolate bar. We resist, but eventually, the desire overpowers us and we indulge our desire to eat the chocolate. We enjoy the chocolate, but when it is traveling down the esophagus, we get that guilty feeling.
Guilt is paralyzing. Guilt is unforgiving. Guilt dwells in the past and prevents us from moving on. So, the law that says, “Thou shalt not eat chocolate” puts a desire in us to eat the chocolate and then makes us feel guilty for eating it, putting us on an endless cycle of guilt and shame that keeps us stuck in the past and prevents us from moving towards a healthy body.
What’s the solution? 1 Corinthians 6:12 has the answer, “Everything is permissible for me- but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible for me- but I will not be mastered by anything.”
There are no rules. You can eat whatever you want, whenever you want and as much as you want. You are free to eat chocolate. But will eating whatever you want, whenever you want and as much as you want benefit you? Will it help you get where you want to go? Eating whatever, whenever and as much as you want will lead to obesity and chronic disease. It could even lead to death. Shopping for clothes will not be fun. Fitting on an airplane seat will be a challenge and you might have to pay for two seats. Walking from your car to the office will be difficult. You may have to go on medications with nasty side effects. You may get passed up for a job promotion. It will have a negative impact on your relationships as you won’t be able to physically do the things you could do before. Do you really want to live in an endless cycle of guilt and shame?
When it comes to eating, we need to stop making rules, “do not taste,” but say, “I can eat this food, but will it get me where I want to go? I can have an extra helping of pie, but do I want to deal with the repercussions of eating it? I can get seconds, but will I achieve my weight loss goals if I do? When we do this, we take the power away from the food and give it back to ourselves. We are now in control. We are the one deciding what we want for our life, not the food or the desire for the food. We can now control the desire because we are free.
Where the law puts our focus on what we don’t want, freedom puts our focus on what we do want. So be free. It will lead to a better weigh.
Annette Presley RD LD CPT, Chief Nutritionist for Liberation Wellness
Annette has been a registered dietitian for over 17 years and discovered several years ago that every thing she learned in school was wrong and the nutrition advice we dispense in this country actually causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity. She is now dedicating her life to getting the truth out so people can live a truly healthy life. She is founder of Find Your Weigh online at findyourweigh.com.
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Posted by Annette Presley on February 11, 2010
A 2009 study in the Journal of Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism compared the effects of chocolate milk, a carbohydrate replacement drink and a fluid replacement drink on endurance cyclists. The study found that participants cycled up to 51% longer after drinking the chocolate milk than either the carbohydrate or fluid replacement beverages.
The researchers theorized it was the type and amount of fat and/or the type of carbohydrate that made a difference in performance. It would be interesting to see how real milk would fare in this competition, but as usual, studies tend to employ more processed foods rather than natural foods.
Real milk provides healthy fat, carbohydrate and protein which can help with recovery from and refueling after exercise. It is my beverage of choice after a swim workout. My guess is that real milk would be even better than chocolate milk since the fat, protein and sugar are easier to digest in the raw and real milk would also provide a better array of nutrients.
Annette Presley RD LD CPT, Chief Nutritionist for Liberation Wellness
Annette has been a registered dietitian for over 17 years and discovered several years ago that every thing she learned in school was wrong and the nutrition advice we dispense in this country actually causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity. She is now dedicating her life to getting the truth out so people can live a truly healthy life. She is founder of Find Your Weigh online at findyourweigh.com.
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Posted by Annette Presley on February 4, 2010
I get a lot of emails and regular mail, often with loads of samples, from the food industry with information designed to convince me to recommend certain foods to my clients. Today, I thought I’d share an email from The Promise Institute, the makers of Promise margarine and spreads.
This particular email contained an article with the title The Role of Omega-6 PUFA (polyunsaturated fatty acids) In Heart Health which summarized the American Heart Association Sciences Advisory 2009 findings. According to this article, “a thorough assessment of the literature revealed that omega-6 PUFAs play a role in maintaining heart health as part of a diet low in saturated fat, trans fat and cholesterol.” They are recommending an omega-6 intake of up to 21% of total calories claiming that PUFAs improve the ratio of total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol when substituted for carbohydrates; reduces LDL cholesterol when replacing saturated fat; and because a meta-analysis revealed that replacing saturated fat with PUFA lowered the risk of coronary heart disease.
The Promise Institute recommendations are to:
- Switch to soft spreads (meaning don’t use butter, use margarine)
- Choose nutritious vegetable oils (like soy and corn)
- Add a healthy nut/seed topping
- Smooth on some peanut butter
The references for this article included the Position Paper of the American Dietetic Association on dietary fatty acids which concluded that there was no scientific agreement on PUFA recommendations since many studies identified adverse effects from a high PUFA diet and indicated that the omega-6/omega-3 ratio was more important. This paper also recommended eating whole foods, not processed foods.
Most of the studies that did show a benefit to increasing PUFAs in the diet were either talking about increasing the omega-3 PUFA, not omega-6, or they were really old studies from the 60s and 70s. The problem with the old studies is that they occurred during the time when the lipid hypothesis was gaining ground (and deliberately trying to be proved at any cost) and saturated and trans fats were lumped together as we were unaware that there were biological differences between the two at that time. Omega-6 fats, and anything for that matter, would be better than trans fat and therefore the results would be favorable to increasing omega-6 fats. These old studies were generally of poor design and contained too many variables to pinpoint the risk or benefit of any one food component.
The end points used in most studies are “risk factors” for heart disease such as blood cholesterol levels, particularly LDL, rather than actual events of disease or death. It is assumed by the mainstream that a low LDL is good for the heart, but no study has ever proven that to be true. What the science does show is that oxidized LDL is a risk factor, but not the amount of LDL. So, you could have a high LDL that is not oxidized and be perfectly healthy or you could have a low LDL that is oxidized and be at risk for heart disease. PUFAs absolutely lower LDL cholesterol, but they also cause the LDL to oxidize.
The references sited in this article did not provide support for the Promise Institute recommendations to increase PUFA intake, but that won’t stop them from marketing their fake butter.
Annette Presley RD LD CPT, Chief Nutritionist for Liberation Wellness
Annette has been a registered dietitian for over 17 years and discovered several years ago that every thing she learned in school was wrong and the nutrition advice we dispense in this country actually causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity. She is now dedicating her life to getting the truth out so people can live a truly healthy life. She is founder of Find Your Weigh online at findyourweigh.com.
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Lauren Snyder Grosz
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
let'spoon
Morley Robbins
Janet Stuck, ND, CNC, MH, CNHP
John Chisholm
Dr. Richard Walicki
Jimmy Moore
