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Healthy Fats in Plants Keep Down The Weight
April 15, 2010: 0 comment(s)
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Scientists wanted to know if there was a relationship between the kinds of fat people ate and weight gain. In America, most of the fat consumed comes from the fat found within the muscles of animals we eat (chicken, beef, pork or lamb) or dairy products (milk, cheese, yogurt). The rest of it comes from oils (canola, safflower, peanut, corn or olive) used in cooking.
Animal fat contains saturated fat, while oils in plants are made of unsaturated fats. Saturated fats are associated with the development of heart disease. On the other hand, plant oils are made of fats called monounsaturated fats, often referred to as “healthy fats” and are believed to be heart healthy. Even lean animal meat like chicken is 23% fat while plants average around 11% fat.
Nadiah Moussavi, a Master’s student at the Universite de Montreal, under the direction of Olivier Receveur and Victor Gavino, professors in the department of nutrition stated, “Research on animals and some clinical trials show that not all fats have the same effect on weight.” She has studied at length, statistics from the United Nations’ World Health Organization and compared, by country, obesity rates, the consumption of fats and what type of fats women over the age of 15 are eating.
In the countries with a large part of the diet based on plants containing monounsaturated fats like olive oil, very few women, if any, are obese. Denmark and Italy consume mostly healthy fats and have a low rate of obesity.
Conversely, in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Peru the obesity rate is high and use of monounsaturated fats is low. 22.2% of the women in Canada are obese. They eat, on average, 147 grams of fat/day with only about 1/3 of it from healthy fat sources (plant based monounsaturated fats). And coming in dead last, are the women of the United States with 37.8% of the population obese, 152.2 grams fat eaten daily with just under a third considered healthy fats.
According to this study, obesity is strongly associated with a diet high in the wrong fats (animal based diet) while thin women statistically eat a better diet of the ‘good fats’ found in plants. Great sources of healthy fats are avocados, nuts and olive oil.
While genetics, exercise and other dietary elements can affect weight; it appears that the type of fats eaten and the kind of diet associated with those fats, plant based or animal based, can play a significant role in weight gain. Countries where people eat primarily plants are thin. Countries where people eat an animal based diet like the United States, have higher rates of weight gain. Relative to obesity, Moussavi commented, “Our study shows that the consumption of monounsaturated fats and maybe other fats also play a role.”
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