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invetedlotus123 said: Most of my material is in portuguese, but I`ve found this article in English. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3176558/It-s-healthier-cook-LARD-sunflower-oil-Extraordinary-experiment-shows-ve-told-cooking-oils-wrong.html The reason why pig fat, or lard, is better than most vegetal oils is because it has no added conservatives and vegetal oil has to go through severe modificantios to arrive the supermarket. And is possible to be very heatlhy on a meat based diet, Atkins diet proved wrong this idea that fat and red meat are necessarily unhealthy. And our body NEEDS fat, a friend of the family that is a gynecologist explained us that many women are having hormonal problems for not eating enough fat. An eating lifestyle i like a lot is Paleo Low-Carb. And whole plant-based diet can be very healthy or not, it all comes for how much you reasearch and applies in your eating habits, just like any diet. The thing is most vegetarians tend to know a lot more and do a lot more research about nutrition than meat lovers, so we tend to believe the vegetarian lifestyle in itself is healthier than eating meat, when it`s not quite the case. I eat a lot of egg yolks, meat, cook with lard and etc, and I`m actually really healthy according to my exams. |
Given Dr. Atkins appears to have died of heart disease, I don't see that as a ringing endorsement of the Atkins diet.
Cooking with lard might be better than sunflower oil in some circumstances, but my understanding is it's better to not cook with oils. I haven't cooked with any oil in decades.
Your body may or may not need fat, I think the jury is still out on that. But I do choose to eat raw coconut, which contains (what I believe to be) far healthier fat than any animal product.
I believe the problems with eating animal products are largely long-term problems. If you eat meat in moderation, or if you're fit and active, you can reduce and/or delay many of the problems associated with eating meat and other animal products. Being active should reduce the risks of diabetes for sure, but many of the other diseases could still catch up with you (which could reduce the length, and the quality, of your later years). A fit and active person eating a lot of meat might actually have heightened risk of some of the neurological problems associated with an omnivorous diet, as they'd be eating more of the cholesterol and plaque that are being fingered for the neurological problems.
