By Louis Blake
For decades coconut oil and avocados have been maligned as foods likely to cause heart disease because they contained saturated fats. This charge has however been refuted by a world renowned nutritionist and certified personal trainer, Isabel De Los Rios on a video posted on 'YouTube'.
The cause of heart disease is NOT saturated fats but hydrogenated oils, processed, packaged and refined sugar foods, De Los Rios declared. Saturated fats in fact, help the body burn fats and thereby contribute to maintaining good health, she added.Quoting Sally Fallon's book 'Nourishing Traditions', Isabel noted that before 1920 the incidence of heart disease was very low in the United States (US), it was not until 1950 there was a huge increase of heart disease showing at one time an estimated 40% of the US population died from heart disease. It could be higher today, she said.
Adding that if saturated fat was really the cause of increased heart diseases in the US, then statistics should show an increased use of saturated fats after 1920. The actual data however shows (cf. Sally Fallon's - Nourishing Traditions) between 1910 - 1970 traditional animal fat in the American diet declined from 83% - 62%, butter consumption plummeted from 18 lbs per person per year to 4 lbs per person a year.The intake of dietary cholesterol increased by only 1% during that time, so if people were eating less butter, less saturated fat, with only a marginal increase of dietary cholesterol how could those foods be the cause of increased heart disease? she questioned.
During that same period there was a 400% increase in the average intake of dietary vegetable oils in the form of margarine, shortening and refined oils. Once there was an increase in eating refined oils the instances of heart diseases drastically increased. There was also a 60% increased consumption of sugar and processed foods in that time.
Isabel highlighted the way our liver carries out its role to break down fats and get rid of harmful chemicals from our body.
She explained that bad fats contain harmful chemicals that cause the liver to work overtime to filter those harmful substances from the blood; they therefore hamper the process of the liver to break down fats.
The result is that fat is stored in our body. Good fats on the other hand, stimulate the liver to burn off the fatty tissues stored in our body.A graduate of Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Isabel developed "The Diet Solution Program", the culmination of 12 years research motivated by her desire to help herself and her mother to lose weight.
Louis Blake, a journalist, responded to the news that obesity in his country, Trinidad and Tobago, increased from 25 - 55 percent in 10 years, by launching the website: LoseBellyFatIn8Weeks.weebly.. Isabel De Los Rios weight loss program is highlighted there as 'Weight Loss Nutrition Secrets'.