Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health: 5 (The Dr. Hyman Library)

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He approves delicious meats! Loads of veggies, fruits, nuts, potatoes, and all the brain-feeding fats such as ghee, butter, avo, and various other *good* oils. Canola, you’re not welcome here.

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No grains, no exceptions. (I could totally see why giving up gluten would be advisable. But this includes healthy grains like quinoa, teff, steel-cut oats, brown rice.) He plays the conspiracy card. He says that scientists who question state-sanctioned paradigms like low fat diets, mutations as a cause of cancer, and HIV as a cause of AIDS are denied grants and silenced. In fact, some of them are very loud for people who have been “silenced,” and they may have been denied grants simply because their research was not as worthy as competing grant proposals. Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown Dr. Hyman's writing is accessible and enthusiastic, not pedantic. He makes connections between common ailments and common foods and makes a convincing case why switching to high fat/veg, moderate protein, low carb is the way to go. He understands that his word alone isn't enough so he recruited 1000+ people to 'beta-test" the diet prior to the publication of the book. The book contains testimonials of participants about sometimes radical health changes and weight loss. Claims in the book were typically not well supported by their own references or by the scientific literature at large.if you believe all calories are created equal, then might think that staying away from fat is a good idea, but it just doesn’t work out this way This reference received a score of 3, indicating that it provides only moderate support for the claim, primarily for the diabetes claim but only weakly for the obesity claim. The cited paper is a report of a series of experiments in both mice and humans. As studies in mice are preclinical and typically used to generate hypotheses for human studies we will focus on the human studies reported, however the mouse studies are fairly supportive of the diabetes claim made by Eat Fat, Get Thin. The authors report two analyses in humans. The first study describes an analysis of self-reported artificial sweetener intake in 381 individuals. The researchers found that individuals who self-reported higher intakes of artificial sweeteners also tended to have higher waist to hip ratios, fasting blood glucose levels, worse HbA1c levels, and performed worse on a glucose tolerance test compared to those with lower intakes. However, all 381 individuals in the analyses were non-diabetic and it is unclear if the observed differences between individuals were clinically meaningful. The analyses were all controlled for BMI in an attempt to isolate the effect of the sweetener intake from the impact of weight on health. However, as sweetener intake was significantly related to participants’ waist to hip ratio it is curious that the researchers did not perform sensitivity analyses with waist to hip ratio as a control variable rather than BMI. Waist to hip ratio is a stronger health indicator and of body fatness compared to BMI so controlling for waist to hip ratio would have allowed the research team to rule out the effects of body fatness rather than just height and weight. As the research team didn’t do this, we can’t rule out that the relationship between sweetener intake and the other health indicators was not just related to the individuals’ body fatness. The second experiment in the paper describes a feeding study conducted in 7 individuals. The researchers had the 7 individuals in the study consume the maximum amount of artificial sweeteners allowed by the FDA over 7 days, but did not forcibly change any other aspect of their diet or lifestyle. Of the 7 individuals, about half of them (4 individuals) had poorer glycemic response at the end of the 7 days while 3 showed no change. The four individuals who appeared to be negatively influenced by the sweeteners actually started the study with a very different gut bacteria profile than those who were unaffected. However, gut bacteria can be influenced by a variety of dietary and lifestyle factors. We cannot rule out that the observed changes in the four individuals were not induced by some other factors. No dietary or physical activity records were collected or reported by the researchers. Therefore, there is no way to rule out the potential influence of these lifestyle factors during the study. Overall, the study was conducted with an extremely small sample size, the effect of sweeteners was only apparent in half of the individuals tested, and there was no control over other factors that may have influenced response. At best, this data shows us that some individuals with a specific set of gut bacteria may be influenced to some extent by artificial sweeteners. Therefore, it is difficult to conclude that artificial sweeteners “alter gut flora or bacteria to promote obesity and type 2 diabetes” as suggested by Eat Fat, Get Thin. Reference 7 Reference Hyman has borrowed from a variety of diets to appeal to the most readers. I question his insistence that one must buy his and friends' supplements, because I can find other OTC brands that are cheaper and comparable. He could say he's just trying to make it easier for you, but is that the only motivation. And I personally think that the closer one gets to obtaining stuff from real food rather than isolates, the better. In spite of the fact that our food has less nutrients for a variety of reasons, it's still more conservative and nutritious. He is perpetuating the idea that a magic pill, a magic bullet solves everything. Also, that you need a leader/celebrity to save you, that you cannot do it through your own intelligence and research. In "Minding the Body: The Clinical Uses of Somatic Awareness" by Bakal, M.D., the issue is raised that humans actually have an intrinsic need to have someone other than themselves do something to, or for, them to heal, that historically they've been willing to swallow or apply all sorts of bizarre things to get better, based on the recommendations of authorities to whom they surrender their own empowerment and good sense. Bakal brings up the issue of validity of even the placebo effect, that because of the need for informed consent it's used less now, and why it actually works. Perhaps part of this diet is also placebo: according to Bakal, the more you suffer, the more value you place on it. There is also the issue that when one spends lots of money for a fad diet or therapy, as example, one values it more and works harder (see "The Fifty Minute Hour," author forgotten). But can you maintain?

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Maximum of 2 cups per day--tea or coffee--unsweetened. He recommends adding coconut oil to coffee for your breakfast. Eat Fat, Get Thin makes a wide range of claims. Therefore, we chose to focus on the main claim of the book, that eating fat will help you become thin, and the two most deadly chronic diseases brought up by the book, heart disease and cancer. Hey everyone! I’ve been trying to improve several aspects of my life lately. And I thought that the book Eat Fat, Get Thin might help me with my weight problem. And after having read it, I think it definitely will! We’ve been told lots of falsehoods about fat over the past 50 years that have shaped what we eat, what we buy, how we diet—all of which has had huge and disastrous consequences for our health. It all began with two big ideas about fat that have turned out to be wrong…The first was that all calories operate the same way in your body. Since fat has more than twice as many calories as carbs or protein per gram, the natural conclusion was that if you ate less fast, you would lose weight. That, in effect, the fat you ate turned to fat in your body. The second idea was that since fatty cholesterol deposits caused heart disease, and dietary fat, especially saturated fat, raised cholesterol, then the fat we ate caused heart disease. Seems to make sense, except the body is more complex than this simplistic conclusion would suggest…I’ll explain how the government and the food industry jumped on the bandwagon to create a maelstrom of bad advice. It was the perfect storm of overzealous scientists leaping to premature conclusions, anxious government agencies eager to do something to stem the tide of obesity and heart disease, and a profit-hungry food industry that raced in to capitalize on the low-fat mania, leading, in fact, to a rise in obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.” Ch2He says, “A hundred years ago less than one in one hundred Americans were obese and coronary heart disease was unknown.” It was hardly unknown, although it was admittedly less prevalent and may not have been diagnosed with that name. He is correct that obesity has become a serious problem and is a risk factor for diabetes, heart disease, and a number of other illnesses; but he goes too far when he claims I read this right after Always Hungry by Dr. David Ludwig. They both cover similar ground (the food industry is more concerned with profit than creating nutritious foods; the food industry gives lots of money to our politicians-- which is why they aren't doing a better job of creating better food regulations; confusion about the complex science of nutrition have led to bad recommendations over the years-- which is why consumers are confused, to whit: fat isn't as bad for you as you think it is). They both include lots of cited research and cover the science of nutrition. They both recommend increased dietary intake of certain "good" fats, more non-starchy vegetables, reduced carbs, and very little sugar). Dr. Hyman's plan is a little more hard-core and, I think, somewhat unrealistic for: poor people, working people, and/or beginners. I think Dr. Ludwig's approach might be a little more manageable. I care as much as Dr. Hyman does, so I felt compelled to speak out. Was a certified Natural Therapeutics Specialist and Licensed Massage Therapist for more than twenty years, have a firm foundation. Also worked for physicians for about fourteen years and know how and what they think. I believe Hyman cares, but... I do have concerns. Guys like Chopra and Oz, with their new-age piecemeal unqualified advice outside their profession, worry me.

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Eat Fat, Get Thin’s references received a score of 1, indicating poor support for the book’s claims. The majority of the studies cited by the book do not support its claims. In some cases Eat Fat, Get Thin appears to mischaracterize, overstate, or withold elements of the studies that are cited. Criterion 1.3. How well does the strength of the claim line up with the strength of the evidence? Nothing sweet (not just sugar, not just high fructose corn syrup, but all artificial sweeteners (including stevia) and all natural sweeteners (agave, honey, maple syrup). In summary, the evidence overall does not support the position that saturated fat does not play a role in the development of heart disease. At best, it appears that sufficient intakes of “healthier fats”, such as omega-3 fatty acids, may negate some of the negative effects that higher intakes of saturated fats may have on cholesterol and heart disease risk, although, no strong evidence of this is presented by Eat Fat, Get Thin. In humans it appears that substituting unsaturated fats for saturated fat in the diet is likely to improve an individual’s cholesterol profile and reduce their risk for heart disease. Criterion 1.2. Are the references cited in the book to support the claim convincing? The book’s references received a score of 2, indicating that they provide moderate support for the book’s claim. Although the cited studies did examine the association between fat and cancer they are often mischaracterized or crucial pieces of information are withheld from the reader. Criterion 1.3. How well does the strength of the claim line up with the strength of the evidence? Fatty acids play a starring role in many important functions in the body, including regulating inflammation, hormones, mood, nerve function, and more. Most of us think of them as a form of energy storage...Burning fat for energy is actually better and more sustainable for health; in fact, it’s what your muscles and hearts prefer.” Ch4We feel that it is important to note that Eat Fat, Get Thin was apparently aware of the strong experimental data connecting saturated fat intake to reductions to cholesterol and heart disease. In a later section of the book, the book references a 2014 review that also concluded that there was convincing evidence from both randomized control trials and prospective cohort studies that partial replacement of saturated fat with mono- and polyunsaturated fats is likely to lead to decreases in total and LDL cholesterol. The paper also concluded that there was convincing evidence that replacement of saturated fatty acids with polyunsaturated fat will decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease, particularly in men. Overall, Eat Fat, Get Thin provided references for the majority of their claims, however, the details and conclusions of the papers cited were often misrepresented or greatly overstated. In some key instances the data cited actually undermined the claims being made by Eat Fat, Get Thin. There were also some important studies discussed by Eat Fat, Get Thin for which references were not provided. It is unclear why these citations were left out.