Yes, the healthy fats are good for you and improve health, don't cause CVD. That took me a while to wrap my head around. I'd always understood (and it made sense) that eating fat makes you fat and gave you bad lipid results. It's actually excess glucose that gets turned into triglycerides for storage as fat that causes the problems. Behind the scenes is insulin.
The fat storage hormone is insulin. So a newly diagnosed T2D has had the perfect storm brewing for awhile: High insulin plus high glucose Equals: make and store fat.
Although I'm LC (still experimenting) I think carbs and fat are both great. Heresy, burn me at the steak, medium rare please
. But we run better when we can use both as intended.
These best buddies have an elegant purpose and work together when your metabolism is working well. Carbs are like money in your wallet and fat is like money in the bank. Fast, local energy comes from carbs and slow release backup fat energy when you run out of your primary. T2Ds are limited because of high blood sugar and insulin.
They have to break the insulin-glucose-fat build up cycle that feeds on itself. So T2Ds reduce carbs (most carbs turn into glucose eventually) thereby reducing blood sugar thereby reducing the circulating insulin thereby forcing your metabolism to be a little bit more normal. Then your body can start pulling money out of the fat bank since you've spent everything in your wallet.
It works great. In the last 2 years, using LC & fasting, my FBG and A1c have gone from diabetic to almost normal non-diabetic. I've lost over 20% of my body weight. The weight loss was not exclusively because of LC but I don't think it would have happened without it. Also my BP has come down nicely and my lipids look very good.
Olive oil is probably the best choice for general use. Other "seed oils" like: Soybean, Canola, Corn, Safflower, Cottonseed, Rapeseed and others have higher levels of Omega 6 and are highly processed. BUT they're cheap for manufactures to add to off-the-shelf products. For me it's hard to find a salad dressing that's not made using canola oil. I use a little of this product for flavor and add olive oil for health. A compromise.
Hope this isn't too much information (I tend to do that
). Best Wishes, PB
