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~ The Hunger Games  

I created Heal With Hope to share all that I have learned about health & healing during my 12+ year journey to find healing from a debilitating chronic illness. The philosophies, treatments, and techniques you will find on this website transformed my life, and I hope they will inspire better health & healing in your life, too!  Andrea Chervenak
 

NATURAL HEALTH NEWS:

Do Low Fat Foods Put Your Health in Danger?

by Art Bartunek

 All Healthy Diets from Around the World Include Healthy Fats!

Over the last 45 years we have been waging war on disease, especially cancer and heart disease, and wondering why we are losing the battle! One of the most publicized tools to promote better health has been low fat food. It is supposed to cut cancer risk, help us shed those unwanted pounds, and protect our hearts. The truth is this doesn't work, and we are getting more obese and diabetic, with heart disease and the same rates of cancer deaths as when we started. Here is a quick recipe to understand the problem, to kick the Low-Fat habit, and to restore your food to a fat-friendly diet.
 
Low-Fat Just Doesn't Work! In Fact, It's Killing Us!
 
Low fat has been promoted for over 40 years as a way to a healthy life. This advice has not worked, but you still hear it every day, and probably have difficulty finding real-fat, healthy-fat foods in the supermarket, especially milk fat.

Consider this, from current research:

• Children who regularly drink full-fat milk (at least 3% milk fat) are less overweight, with a healthier body mass index.
• Children (ages 4-13) switched to a low-fat diet DO NOT reduce measures of body fat.
• For adults, a healthy diet that includes dairy - mostly full fat - helps to prevent abdominal fat accumulation - a health goal that everyone should share.
• In Adult women — and this is an AMAZING fact: Changing to a low-fat diet made no difference in the risk of Invasive Breast Cancer, colorectal cancer, or cardiovascular disease. (US study of 48,835 women ages 50 to 79 for an 8 year period.) 
• Milk fat has anti-tumor activities. It can also prevent the loss of red and white blood cells during chemotherapy, and inhibits tumor formation. This may explain the observation that: Regular consumption of full-fat milk products helps to reduce the incidence of prostate, colon and breast cancers. Regular consumption of low fat milk/dairy increases the risk for these cancers.
•  Higher consumption of whole milk and calcium is associated with a lower risk of colorectal cancer. 
•  A diet with moderate intake of meats and full-fat dairy is associated with a reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease. (This is an essential part of a True Mediterranean dietary pattern.) 

You Need the Healthy Fat ! 
 
Every cell in the body need fats, including saturated fats. Your brain function depends upon proper dietary fats. This is so important that if you go on a really low-fat diet, you will start to crave sugars and your body will try to manufacture the fats missing from your diet. Good fats are essential to (again, a very short list of key reasons):

• Absorb essential vitamins, including A, D, E and K (So, no more low-fat/no-fat salad dressings, please!) 
• Regulate mood & maintain sharp thinking. (You need optimal levels of DHA and EPA for mood and brain/nerve function.) 
• Produce hormones properly. (This includes those special hormone fats, cholesterol and beta-Sitosterol.) 

Another Healthy Fat - Fish Oil: 
Another Healthy Fat - Fish Oil: Regular consumption of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3PUFAs) from fish is heart healthy, reduces cancer risk, and naturally reduces inflammation. High DHA fish oil is one of Nature's key anti-depressants. Fish oil is a very effective regulator of triglyceride levels, but it can also produce an undesirable increase in LDL-C cholesterol levels. This increase in LDL-C can be prevented by maintaining adequate beta-Sitosterol.

Art Bartunek is the President of BCN (Beachwood Canyon Naturally) a cutting-edge natural supplement company. For more information and to receive Art's newsletters: www.BCN4Life.com  

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