"Healthy" dietary fat link to ulcerative colitis

[steven johnson]

Margerine has been associated with worsening of asthma. Here is another association between highly unsaturated fats and inflammation.Margarine 'may increase asthma risk'

Experts believe a high intake of linoleic acid, found in foods like "healthy" margarines, may be implicated in a third of ulcerative colitis cases.

There is good biological plausibility of why linoleic acid can cause inflamation, and certainly Western diets are often excessive in this kind of fat

The researchers also found that a diet rich in another type of fat, omega 3 fatty acid found in oily fish such as salmon and herring, reduced the likelihood of developing ulcerative colitis by 77%.

Once in the body, linoleic acid is converted to arachidonic acid. . . can then be converted into various inflammatory chemicals, high levels of which have been found in the bowel tissue of patients with ulcerative colitis.

Healthy fat link to bowel disease

[MADem]

1. Jesus, every time you turn around, the "experts" are telling you that what's bad is good, and what's

good is bad.

Screw them all. Everything...in moderation. NT

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Long ago,

a cardiologist friend told me exactly that. Everything in moderation.

Butter, he said, not margarine.

But not a stick of butter on each slice of toast.

He was such a load, that Bob............. heh heh heh

Eat everything, be sane about it. Avoid crap.

How hard is that?

[kestrel91316]

3. I don't allow margarine, "healthy" or otherwise, in my kitchen, and haven't for

30 years. Real butter or nothing. I use butter in extreme moderation, and at last check had fabulous lipid profile numbers.

I use only lard and never shortening, too, lol.

:evilgrin:

I can hear the screams of disbelief now.

[lizerdbits]

8. Lard makes great pie crusts

I get it at a nearby Dutch market and use a lard/butter combo to get a little butter taste. I probably make 3 pies a year too. I remember an episode of 'Good Eats' where Alton Brown said lard has less saturated fat that butter, though I don't know how much.

Bacon fat is best for cornbread too, screw shortening.

[kestrel91316]

10. Absolutely. I make my grandmother's pis crust, but substitute

butter and lard for the margarine and shortening and it's great. Lard has little granules that make things really flaky.

Lard is healthier than any beef fats - if you hold lard and tallow in your hands, lard has a lower melting point than tallow which makes it less bad for the arteries.

[valerief]

4. Margarine tastes gross. Anything that tastes gross can't be good for you.

I do butter and olive/sunflower/grapeseed oil.

I figure, too, if the packaging touts it as being healthy, it probably isn't.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. We get way too much sixes and nines in our diets. DHA, which

composes 97% of the omega threes in the brain. Spring Valley uses a patented method to derive DHA from algae oil eliminating the worry about mercury in fish. Suggested reading can be found at http://www.martek.com/about/research-and-development.aspx

[katmondoo]

6. I have never eaten margarine

I hate it with a passion. Tastes like what I imagine crisco would taste without the coloring.

[kestrel91316]

11. It basically IS Crisco without all the coloring, lol. Trans fats are BAD,

and bad for you.

[tabatha]

7. I thought that margarine had been shown to be unhealthy a long time ago.

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2004/11/24/butter_versus_margarine.htm

[Glory89fan]

9. Margarine not healthy?

Wow! I never knew that. (sarcasm)