This topic relates to my previous post, which is 'How many hours should we sleep?'. They are about fat.
According to "'Good fat' cuts heart risk by a fifth, study shows", the polyunsaturated fats, which are found in some fish and vegetable oils, can reduce the risk of heart disease because these fats increase the level of good cholesterol, while the saturated fats, found in butter and meat, increase the level of bad cholesterol which blocks flowing of blood to heart. However, this research did not study about monounsaturated fats, found in olive and rapeseed oils.
From this research, we will see that some fats are good for our health, so we should consider that what we should or should not eat. Now we know that we should eat fish and vegetable to get the good fats, but we still don't know that the fats from olive and rapeseed oils are good or bad; therefore, we don't know that we should eat them more or less. However, although butter and meat give the bad fats, we should eat it; but not too much; to get other nutrients. We should balance our diet.
According to "'Good fat' cuts heart risk by a fifth, study shows", the polyunsaturated fats, which are found in some fish and vegetable oils, can reduce the risk of heart disease because these fats increase the level of good cholesterol, while the saturated fats, found in butter and meat, increase the level of bad cholesterol which blocks flowing of blood to heart. However, this research did not study about monounsaturated fats, found in olive and rapeseed oils.
From this research, we will see that some fats are good for our health, so we should consider that what we should or should not eat. Now we know that we should eat fish and vegetable to get the good fats, but we still don't know that the fats from olive and rapeseed oils are good or bad; therefore, we don't know that we should eat them more or less. However, although butter and meat give the bad fats, we should eat it; but not too much; to get other nutrients. We should balance our diet.
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References
'Good fat' cuts heart risk by a fifth, study shows. (2010, March 23). BBC News. Retrieved March 23, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8580899.stm
I partly agree with ANN that we should not completely stop eating food that provide us the bad fats such as meat. Meat is the important source of protine and it also gives us some amino acid that benefit to our body. However, for butter, I think we can substitute it with other valuable kinds such as cheese. However, every things has two sides, eating with suitable amount will benefit to our health.
ReplyDeleteI agree that balancing our diet is better than stop eating something entirely. However, I'm a bit confused with these studies. There are too many of them and it's kind of all over the place. I'm starting to think that eat healthy is a very difficult thing to do since we can not be sured which food is healthy or unhealthy.
ReplyDeleteEven if we eat healthy food, actually it might not healthy. For example, we think that vegetable is good, but sometimes it has contaminated substances or we don't know that it contains a dangerous thing.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Ann that even though we choose to eat healthy food such as vegetable or fish, we cannot be sure that it's really healthy. Due to the fact that at the present most people eat out instead of cooking by themselves. Therefore, it's difficult to know that how sanitarian our food that we consume is. However, we can choose to eat and choose to be as the proverb "you are what you eat".
ReplyDeleteHealth is affected by all aspects of living including emotion, eating, exercise, and other things. It is so complicated a matter that the studies are not very consistent, especially about eating. Some people says something is good for health, and then other people say that is not good for health. Ann's strategy about balancing eating might be the best one.
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