Could consumption of olive oil help protect against obesity?
Posted on 24 August 2009
Published August 24, 2009 . Filed under: Healthy Eating, Low-Carbohydrate/Carbohydrate Restriction, Unhealthy Eating!, Weight Loss
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In the seventies and eighties there was big weight pushing so called ‘benefits’ of polyunsaturated fat and including the proposition that the degree of ‘unsaturation’ could be beneficial to weight management.
I cannot reference this but I recall circa the late eighties news reaching the likes of me that polyunsaturates did not live up to the promise and that instead mono-saturates fitted the bill. This is in agreement with your post.
I have read proponents of the proposition that the super-availability of polyunsaturates and the concurrent super-availability of omega-6 EFAs in the western diet is the major food-health scandal and travesty of the age.
On two levels I can support the merits of your post.
In the last six – eight months I have really addressed the likely overabundance of n6 EFAs in my diet while making attempts to raise consumption and quality of mono-saturated fat and n3 EFAs. I feel remarkably better.
Also Barry Sears, he of the ‘Zone’ series of diet and health books is a big advocate of olive oil.
Between ‘The True You Diet’ and ‘The 7 day Zone diet’ I was provoked into considerable thought on dietary matters and with a radical departure from the (mainstream) misconceptions still prevailing in the ‘noughties’.
Have a pleasant stay in Portugal – fancy trading places?
August 24, 2009 @ 11:38 pm
Hi Dr Briffa,
Is this south or north Portugal?
In the north, which is close to where I live in Galicia, lard is also consumed along with olive oil. The pig is an important resource!
I have found Portugese olive oil to be the nicest (and cheapest) olive oil and so may have a trip over the border to buy some.
It is very hard to resist the bread – especially the wood-fired oven baked bread, but I stick to a once a week treat.
Saludos from Galicia
x
August 25, 2009 @ 10:19 am
Kate
South – but I know the north quite well and its local cuisine. You’re comments about the pig extend to Portugal: even as a committed carnivore I did not realise it was possible to consume so many parts of this animal. I’ll spare readers the details…
August 26, 2009 @ 8:23 pm
This shouldn’t be a question, it’s an answer. As the author of The Healing Powers of Olive Oil–I know that olive oil helps to keep obesity and its linked diseases at bay. Studies, anecdotes, and personal experience show it. I’m size 4, 120ish lbs., at 5’5″ — 56. Yeah, it works.
August 26, 2009 @ 10:05 pm
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August 27, 2009 @ 1:13 am
“To answer this question, we would require long terms studies in which individuals are fed these different fats in controlled conditions for relatively long periods of time. I
September 11, 2009 @ 4:58 pm