Chewing the fat

I can always tell when fall has finally arrived, because my coconut oil solidifies and is no longer liquid. That doesn't compare in any shape or form to people trying to dig out from under a freak October snowstorm, but there you are.

One of the things that gets me out of bed in the morning is, what I consider, the perfect cup of coffee. Half-caff (the old liver ain't what it used to be), with cream, Splenda, and coconut oil. When I snapped this photo with my trusty Droid, I didn't realize at the time that this is an almost-perfect low-carber's counter: The perfect cup of coffee, butter, and bacon grease. Ah, bliss.


After a quick glug, let's get down to business.


As I mentioned in my earlier post, some researchers out there are starting to get it. This scary article from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine tells us that the toxic materials from the breakdown of non-saturated fats (read: corn oil, generic vegetable oils, soybean oil, canola oil) can kill obese pancreatitis patients. When the scientists induced obesity in mice, the fatty deposits in their pancreases that brought on pancreatitis were composed of NON-saturated fat. (What else brings on pancreatitis? Gallstones and alcohol use. What brings on gallstones? Low-fat, low-calorie diets.) These toxic by-products cause a higher chance of developing inflammation (heart disease), cell and tissue death, and organ failure. Needless to say, I ain't talking about the Wurlitzer.


What's the answer to this? Lard, tallow, butter, suet, virgin coconut oil, virgin palm oil, bacon grease. All the lovely God-made fats that make our food tasty. All the fats that kept humans healthy for eons. All the healthy fats that our grandparents and great-grandparents used until the "Guy from CSPI" food Nazis thought that they were wiser than the generations of our butter-noshing, lard-frying, ancestors. (Insert razzberry here.)


This article, from Spain, talks about how nut consumption helps those with metabolic syndrome by increasing serotonin, which helps transmit nerve signals, thereby decreasing hunger signals. The article does, however tout the unsaturated fats in nuts, ignoring the fact that nuts, especially yummy ones like macadamias, also contain sat fat. 


Even today, with all the research disproving the recommendation, obese patients are ordered to subsist on celery sticks and fat-free dressing, not understanding that that way of eating (WOE) does nothing but promote terrible lipid panels, tissue inflammation, diabetes, and heart disease in persons who have sensitivities to carbohydrates, as in the majority of the Earth's population. But, no matter. We're all fat because we eat too much fat, right? Right? (cricket, cricket)


In closing, my upper GI to see what my Lap-band thinks it's doing is Wednesday. When those results end up going to the bariatric surgeon, I may or not be a bionic broad any more. Good heavens. I won't know what to call myself. Well, for now, anyways...


The Bionic Broad out.