If you do a just a cursory search of the body of research on fats in nutrition and their effects on human health – even if it’s only of the subset of research that’s published or referred to on the Internet – what immediately strikes you is the lack of consensus on what’s good and what’s bad. While it’s generally accepted among established medical institutions that saturated fats are not so good for cardiovascular health and that unsaturated fats are better, there are enough factors (and permutations and combinations of them), brought out by innumerable conflicting studies, that confound the situation immensely, making you wonder if the oils and fats you consume are beneficial or harmful. [After extensive reading, I documented some of my conclusions in the earlier posts titled I Shan’t Get No Saturation and Coconut Oil and Pure Ghee: Good or Bad?] Continue reading The ABC of Omega-3 and Omega-6
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Is coconut oil as a cooking medium good or bad from a health perspective? Almost every Western medical source will tell you that tropical vegetable oils such as palm oil and coconut oil are bad because they are essentially saturated fats – coconut oil, for instance, is made up of 90 percent saturated fat. It is an established fact that saturated fats are bad because they increase the total cholesterol levels in the blood by raising LDL (“bad” cholesterol). Yet, millions of people in southern India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and other many tropical regions have been using coconut in all its forms prominently in their cooking for centuries, with, apparently, no significant ill-effects. Continue reading Coconut Oil and Pure Ghee: Good or Bad? Does excessive consumption of salt result in elevated blood pressure? And conversely, can reduction in salt intake lower one’s blood pressure? Most of us who read popular newspapers and magazines regularly would generally answer “Aye” to both the above questions. I thought so too, until I did a bit of reading and background research on the subject. As it turns out, the salty debate is still raging amongst researchers and nutritionists, and there is no definitive answer yet. In fact, many experts aver that salt has a limited impact on raising or lowering of blood pressure in the normal, healthy population (except in certain individuals who have high “salt-sensitivity”). Continue reading Salt Tolerance |
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