{"id":110,"date":"2006-09-05T10:06:02","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T09:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/wordpress\/?p=110"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:28:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:28:41","slug":"controversies-around-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/05\/controversies-around-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversies around fat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story around fats is often one that throws out the baby with the bath water, depending on the viewpoint of the \u00bbstoryteller\u00ab. There are the promoters and there is the fanatic opposite condemning fat. But with fat it seems, the middle way is really the best one. <\/em><\/p>\n

I just popped into a quite good publication published on the runner’s web http:\/\/www.runnersweb.com\/running\/news\/rw_news_20060904_ERB_Fats.html<\/a>.
Numerous diets are looked at to evaluate their effects on endurance performance. There are definitely no conclusive answers to the question whether a high fat diet is performance enhancing. The indications given do not support high fat diets. But they support the fact that fats should play an important part in each diet, especially omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids and\u00a0 omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids should be considered. Although the exact desirable ratio between the two is still unknown, it has been suggested that the ratio should be in the range of 5-10:1 or even 2:1*.<\/p>\n

Fatty acids are an essential functional part of all cellular membranes, lipid deficits do not only weaken the function of the major regulatory systems of the body as there are the nervous system and the immune system, but also affect muscle tissue, skin and bone structure. Fat is an important component of the body’s composition. Even the fat cells as such are not only lazy bags filled with fat. They are small factories producing various kinds of molecules that influence immunity, phenomena like appetite or body temperature, and hormones like steroids, to only name a few examples.<\/p>\n

I don’t agree at all with a quotation from a famous German fitness guru who said: \u00bbalways eat your toast cold, because then it won’t absorbe that much butter. Every time I spread butter on my hot toast, this quotation haunts me! ;-)\u00ab. I met athletes close to anorexia, with miserable blood parameters significant for the nutritional status of an undernourished body complaining about weak performances and lack of training effects. Is that amazing, if you avoid fat almost completely?<\/p>\n

I myself love extremes, I have to admit this, but concerning diets, this is a realy bad attitude. To achieve an optimal performance a diet should\u00a0 be balanced. Fat should not scare the hell out of you, and you should not become a sugar junkie. Monomaniac carbohydrate diets are as unhealthy as the gigantic amount of saturated hidden fats in junk food.<\/p>\n

The victims of these extremes we find them everywhere: fat people are taking over the lead in our societies and severely sick anorectic people increasingly become a serious medical problem.<\/p>\n

Sport is the best remedy if one does not exaggerate.<\/p>\n

*Lowery, 2004, Watkins et al., 2001 & Simopoulos, 2003. The latter
assessment is based on research that focuses on the changing American
diet over thousands of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The story around fats is often one that throws out the baby with the bath water, depending on the viewpoint of the \u00bbstoryteller\u00ab. There are the promoters and there is the fanatic opposite condemning fat. But with fat it seems, the middle way is really the best one. I just popped into a quite good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2294],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4745,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}