Food and Health Room

[Anthea]

I would give up tomatoes before I have a colonoscopic

[Anthea]

Concerns that saturated fats have been unfairly 'demonised' prompts Government advice re-think

Minutes from the saturated fats working group of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) now reveal that a decision has been made to re-examine government advice on saturated fat “in the context of recent met-analyses that have reported no significant associations between saturated fats and cardiovascular disease”.

Food Standards Scotland has also requested a review.

The working group will consider and links between the consumption of saturated fat and any links to overall mortality rates, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer.

The review could prompt the most significant overhaul of dietary advice in recent decades.

It coincides with a controversial report last month by the National Obesity Forum which recommended that people eat more fat and fewer carbohydrates.

A report in the medical journal Open Heart last year said the government’s advice to reduce the amount of fat in the diet, introduced in 1983 in a bid to cut rates of coronary heart disease, was not supported by the scientific evidence available at the time, including the results of randomised controlled trials.

Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist and National Obesity Forum members, said: “Saturated fat has been wrongly demonised because of poor science.”

“The evidence is accumulating that sugar is the number one dietary culprit driving cardiovascular disease.”

The SACN working group is expected to start drafting its report in September.

It will focus on saturated fat but may also review the recommended amount of total fat in the diet, which currently amounts to 35% of intake.

Public Health England said official advice on saturated fat consumption would remain in place until the committee delivered its report.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016 ... ed-prompt/

[Londoner]

This is madness. Heart related diseases are caused by saturated fats.

[Piling]

I am sure that sugar is the killer. bijî French fries !

[Londoner]

I like free fries

[Piling]

The funniest is that no French will say "frites" are French : everybody in France know they are Belgium. So when American tried to harm French nation by changing the name of the national Belgium meal our reaction was quite :

[Anthea]

Porridge may protect against cancer, Harvard study suggests

One particular fibre found only in oats – called beta-glucan – has been found to lower cholesterol which can help to protect against heart disease. A bioactive compound called avenanthramide is also thought to stop fat forming in the arteries, preventing heart attacks and strokes.

Whole grains are also widely recommended in many dietary guidelines because they contain high levels of nutrients like zinc, copper, manganese, iron and thiamine. They are also believed to boost levels of antioxidants which combat free-radicals which are linked to cancer.

The new research suggests that if more people switched to whole grains, thousands of lives could be saved each year. Cumulatively, cancer kills around 160,000 people a year while coronary heart disease is responsible for around 73,000 deaths in the UK each year.

Health experts said the study proved that whole grains were essential for good health.

Prof Tim Key, Cancer Research UK scientist at the University of Oxford, said: “We know that eating fibre, including whole grains, can reduce the risk of developing bowel cancer.

"This study suggests that a diet high in whole grains could reduce death from cancer, but it’s difficult to tease apart other lifestyle factors that could be playing a role. If whole grains do reduce the risk of dying from cancer it’s most likely linked to bowel cancer.

“Decades of evidence shows that eating a diet high in fibre, fruit and vegetables and low in processed and red meat, reduces the risk of developing bowel cancer.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016 ... -suggests/

[Piling]

I hate porridge, as all cereals for breakfast. That's not a human breakfast but a chicken treat !

The best breakfast : café crème & croissant.

[Anthea]

I do like hot croissant but I start my day with a healthy fish salad

It may sound strange to some people

I like to know that whatever rubbish I eat during the day, sometimes I am with friends and my menu is limited, I have had at least one healthy meal

Porridge has become trendy in UK but not for me

[Anthea]

Bizarre stomach-pumping device approved in US for fighting obesity

A new device that sucks food out of your stomach and into the toilet after every meal has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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The strange device, called AspireAssist, is intended for people suffering from obesity who are over the age of 22 with a body mass index of 35 to 55, and who have failed to lose weight naturally.

While the mere thought of the food draining tube may be enough to turn most stomachs, the device is being mooted as a sustainable weight loss alternative to surgery.

The FDA noted it should not be used on patients with eating disorders, nor should it be used for short durations in those who are moderately overweight.

To use the food disposal machine, a tube first needs to be surgically inserted in the stomach. This is connected to a disk-shaped port valve placed on the abdomen.

About half an hour after the patient has eaten, they can open the abdominal valve and drain their stomach’s contents through the tube into the toilet. This process can take up to 10 minutes.

The procedure to insert the tubing takes about 15 minutes and can be performed under “twilight anesthesia” rather than general anesthetic, according to manufacturer Aspire Bariatrics.

The device can then be used after every meal, removing up to 30 percent of the calories consumed before they are absorbed into the body.

The FDA reviewed “results from a clinical trial of 111 patients treated with AspireAssist and appropriate lifestyle therapy, and 60 control patients who received only the lifestyle therapy.”

AspireAssist patients lost an average of 12.1 percent of their total body weight over a year period, compared to 3.6 percent for the control patients, the FDA said. Both groups of patients experienced “small improvements” in obesity-related conditions like diabetes, which could be “attributable to lifestyle therapy” such as nutrition.

“The AspireAssist approach helps provide effective control of calorie absorption, which is a key principle of weight management therapy,” said William Maisel, M.D., M.P.H., deputy director for science and chief scientist in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

However, Maisel also indicated that the device should not be relied on as a catch-all treatment for weight management and that patients should incorporate other measures such as healthier eating.

“Patients need to be regularly monitored by their health care provider and should follow a lifestyle program to help them develop healthier eating habits and reduce their calorie intake,” he said.

Frequent medical care visits are necessary as there a number of side effects and risks associated with AspireAssist.

Some of the greater risks associated with the surgical placement of the gastric tube are pneumonia, unintended puncture of the stomach or intestinal wall, and even death.

There are also risks related to the abdominal opening for the port valve and the removal of the device.

A number of nutritional experts have blasted the new weight loss alternative, with some calling it “assisted bulimia.”

"I heard about this device about a year or two ago at one of our meetings and I was shocked. It's like giving someone bulimia, basically, you can just vomit out this tube," Dr. Sajani Shah, gastric band surgeon at Tufts Medical Center, told CBS News.

Dr. Shelby Sullivan of Washington University in St. Louis, who helped test the medical devices disputed this criticism, telling NBC News: "There is no such thing as medical bulimia or assisted bulimia.”

"People think patients can eat whatever they want and then aspirate it and that's just not true. It has to be liquid enough and the particles have to be small enough to get through the tube."

The latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that 38 percent of US adults and 20 percent of teenagers are obese.

https://www.rt.com/usa/347369-stomach-p ... esity-fda/

[Londoner]

I hate porridge, as all cereals for breakfast. That's not a human breakfast but a chicken treat !

The best breakfast : café crème & croissant.

Love croissants but miss them a lot because I have stopped eating them. If you are over 40, your breakfast will speed up your biological ageing in addition to other dormant diseases. Give it up in favour of fish, fruit and vegetable salad. All breads are unhealthy but bread, in your case French bread, is a lot healthier than croissants.
Porridge, especially, if it is organic and whole grain, is extremely healthy. Most of the times, my main breakfast meal, after fruit salad with my own made fermented vegetables, is made up of oats, brown rice, amaranth and quinoa, all are organic and whole grain.

[Piling]

There are no croissants in Kurdistan or weird false spiced things they call 'croissants' (btw, there are no GOOD croissants out of France, I guess)

So I drink only 3 cafés crème.

[Anthea]

Sitting in the sunshine eating croissants for breakfast such a lovely idea

Instead I am indoors with the central heating on

[Piling]

37ºc today.

[Londoner]

There are no croissants in Kurdistan or weird false spiced things they call 'croissants' (btw, there are no GOOD croissants out of France, I guess)

So I drink only 3 cafés crème.

That is as bad as croissants. Coffee, especially on empty stomach, rubs the internal cover of digestive organ, which cause serious diseases.

The following is a quote from an expert:

As it happens, he’s got three coffee plantations
in Panama, and he’s in love with coffee. I said,
“Sorry, that love has to go.” That’s the kiss of death.
And he loved his beer in Germany, oh my God. I said,
“That too. It can’t be.” So, he changed his lifestyle
because it was a question of his health. And within a
few weeks his PSA came down and he went to Walter
Reed in 2001 and they pronounced him totally cancer
free, and he has been cancer free ever since.