Do you like the taste of fat?

[Neubob]

Originally posted by lasersailor184
Plus (except for the extremes), how you eat and exercise in life will NOT determine how long you will live.

A recent 10 year study was done between women who ate right, exercised all the time and women who did what they wanted.  At the end, both groups had exactly the same rate for heart disease and health related fatalities.

Here's a quote from the very article you linked:

"Except for not smoking, the advice for a healthy lifestyle is based largely on indirect evidence, Dr. Howard said, but most medical researchers agree that it makes sense to eat well, control weight and get regular exercise."

And where does it say that it didn't matter what you ate? It says to maintain a balanced diet, which many people fail to do.

Here's another quote:

"The results, the study investigators agreed, do not justify recommending low-fat diets to the public to reduce their heart disease and cancer risk. Given the lack of benefit found in the study, many medical researchers said that the best dietary advice, for now, was to follow federal guidelines for healthy eating, with less saturated and trans fats, more grains, and more fruits and vegetables."

Seems that a reasonably-portioned, well-balanced diet, along with regular exercise is still the accepted way to go. Like always, you're supposed to stay away from over-loading any nutritional aspect of your diet, avoid a sedentary life, limit certain types of fat (trans and saturated), and not smoke.

Put briefly, there's nothing surprising here, or revolutionary. After this big elaborate study, they're still recommending people to follow the standard federal guidelines.

And this is an 8 year study, not a 10 year study, and being such, many specialists remain skeptical about its validity--especially given the fact that this study involved women ages 50-79. Heart disease, you will find, starts its work long before a person turns 50, and often times, finishes its work before then as well.

Originally posted by lasersailor184
Golly-geen I'm good.  

Only in your own mind.

[Benny Moore]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
Dislike fat. I cut off all the fat after cooking it. Wife or I both look for the leanest meat possible when shopping, be it be steak, burger or roasts. That may be a clue to why our cholesterol levels are reasonable for a couple of 40-something year olds.

Edit: Bacon fat is an exception. I LOVE BACON! But its gotta be cooked to a crisp.

I'm with Ripsnort.  It's good to cook the meat with a moderate amount of fat, but after it's cooked the globs that remain go.  It's not the taste that bothers me, it's the consistency - it's like rubber!  You cannot chew it.  Bacon fat, of course, is another story altogether.

[Kuhn]

Originally posted by moot

WOW   Is that for real?!    

[cpxxx]

I always cut the fat off, steaks etc. Unless it's well done and crispy I can't tolerate it. But I would always leave it on during cooking. Fat does add to the flavour. We need fat in our diet anyway. When food is scarce, fat is vital but we get plenty of fat within the food in this day and age.

Mustaine's list of vegetables he can't stand tallies closely with mine.  I never managed to acquire a taste for coffee either even though I tried very hard.

I suspect our tastes in food reflect as much what our body needs or is lacking in. For example I love lemons and can eat a whole one with a bit of sugar while everyone around me is gagging. It is said that if you crave something like that it's because you lack some ingredient it contains. So our favourite foods often reflects what we lack in some way.

On the other hand I cut way back on salt years ago and almost have an aversion to it. Went way off salty foods too. Lately I was diagnosed with high blood pressure. Salt is a know causal factor in high BP. So there must have been some instinctive reaction to avoid salt.

[Tarmac]

no fat.  I cut it off, scrape it off, soak it up, and pick the leanest meat possible at the store.  

Although I love bacon, I still go for the leanest pieces (if there is such a thing).  

Marbling in meat is fine though, it's the big chunks of fat I can't stand.

[Debonair]

OMG noe 1 has maid joeks about fat chix yet:O:O:O maek joaks!!

[Maverick]

Actually Mac did already but why should you be expected to actually read the thread when your idea of levity is poor english.

[Mustaine]

Yo Debonair...


just noticed one of my childhood hero's Steve Dallas has made his way to the BBS

[Debonair]

watch out, diablo will call u gay
then he will call u black

Originally posted by Maverick