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Meat and eggs can be healthy.... It is just a balanced ratio of essential fatty acids away

J. Wijnia-2005-01-01
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Dietary cholesterol and saturated fats – the former CSI (C: Cholesterol, S: Saturated fats, I: Index) – have proven non-reliable predictors of CVD developments. In some studies they were shown good predictors, in others, they could not hold up with the observations. Clearly, the CSI is not an independent primary risk factor in the diet-heart hypothesis. In fine, this conclusion does not appear as a surprise as none of these two food ingredients, cholesterol or saturated fatty acids, is essential to human. Essential to human are some trace elements, minerals and vitamins, and some fatty acids. Should any of these essential ingredients be missing in the diet and the body soon or later will fall ill. Essential fatty acids of the omega-6 and omega-3 families have this unique characteristic that they compete against each other for the same metabolic pathways; their ratio, upon which human genome was established, is therefore critical to their physiological roles and functions. Among their m

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Dietary cholesterol and saturated fats – the former CSI (C: Cholesterol, S: Saturated fats, I: Index) – have proven non-reliable predictors of CVD developments. In some studies they were shown good predictors, in others, they could not hold up with the observations. Clearly, the CSI is not an independent primary risk factor in the diet-heart hypothesis. In fine, this conclusion does not appear as a surprise as none of these two food ingredients, cholesterol or saturated fatty acids, is essential to human. Essential to human are some trace elements, minerals and vitamins, and some fatty acids. Should any of these essential ingredients be missing in the diet and the body soon or later will fall ill. Essential fatty acids of the omega-6 and omega-3 families have this unique characteristic that they compete against each other for the same metabolic pathways; their ratio, upon which human genome was established, is therefore critical to their physiological roles and functions. Among their m

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CholesterolFood scienceBiologyBiochemistryChemistry

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