Wellness

[LTT1]

@2blonde @SilleeMee @Laura14 @sidsmom @2blonde 

Hi all of you and thank you so much for your comments!

I am compiling information because at some point last month I was starting to re-think...did I dream that as a child, we were taught that fats were FORBIDDEN! We were taught that our blood cholesterol levels would be raised if we ate too much fat. (Yes, the article explains how this hypothesis got started.)

I have not read the entire article yet either!

I had to run out for a hair appt ...we must keep our hair appts! lol

So, while at the appt, I asked my stylist about...coconut oil. She referred me to her friend “Donna” who was waiting for a client...”Donna knows everything.” Donna told me that coconut oil does not cause heart attacks and does not make a person fat. (?)

The FaceBook groups I belong to advise that collagen (beef) and coconut oil (both topically and internally) will keep you well (if you have forms of Lichen Planus. I know the miracle of this product on my skin... once looking like fish scales (LP) and tending to get rashy  with even a look, my skin that has been softened into health from coconut oil truly will not experience LP patches.

Facial skin, on my face, has momentarily lost all form and function mostly everywhere, so comedogenic factors are not a problem. I apply it.

The verdict about fats causing heart disease apparently has not been answered definitively yet...at least I haven’t found the definitive answer. I remember as a younger person, looking up the implications of palm kernel oil...it is still a no-no.

I read that coconut oil/monolaurin/lauricidin are a possible solution to MRSA due to the antibiotic effect. (👀👀)

[LTT1]

@dex 

Thank you for considering information about this!

I do think you are exactly right!

Eating out, especially fast food, contributes to peoples’ health status.

Congratulations for remaining healthily thin, both of you, and making great balanced choices for eating habits!

[Laura14]

@LTT1   Be careful with coconut oil.  There are some studies coming out that it is not the wonder oil that it's been touted to be and it's fairly high in saturated fats not the monounsaturated fats that olive oil is known for. 

I don't think anything has been decided one way or the other but proceed with caution on that one.  The verdict is still out.  

[LTT1]

@Group 5 minus 1 

That’s funny! 😂

@Laura14 

How interesting! “Food exists to put olive oil in your mouth!” 😂 

Interesting, also, about the re-thinking of salt!

I wonder (after reading along the way) if the answer is in food ratios? 

Although I don’t want to do math every time I eat!

@2blonde 

I agree! You can’t go wrong eating mostly whole foods.

@SilleeMee 

Thank you for your interesting and personal experience eating Japanese style. 

I remember my DSIL trying to tell me about a book revealing GMO corn oil. I wish I had listened because everything she was trying to tell me was true.

@tsavorite 

I can’t wait to watch the YouTube videos...thank you for the links!

[LTT1]

So, I want people to understand my story because it might be easy to think I am just doing the AIP diet to be “trendy.”

An A-ha 💡  moment happened back in August when a CT Scan revealed that i have a fatty liver (not due to alcohol consumption).

My GI specialist ran the scan at the approximately same time as a routine colonoscopy because I had abdominal pain.

He recommended eating more fiber! 

All I had eaten for YEARS was canned tuna/green apple for lunch.(IBS)  So I began incorporating blueberries/celery/broccoli/carrots into my diet and the pain is now gone.

In August, I visited the dermatologist determined to get rid of my “acne.” And got my diagnosis of LPP.

I wonder if at my age, I might have avoided autoimmune by eating the right things?

[QueenDanceALot]

Olive oil is consumed by the longest lived people in the world, those in the "Blue Zones".

These people also have other lifestyle factors that are believed to contribute to their long and healthy lives, but diet is certainly a factor.

I doubt that trans fats will ever be deemed healthy in any way, shape or configuration.  Everyone in nutrition would tell you to avoid it like the plague.

[Laura14]

@LTT1 I am a firm believer in fiber for cholesterol control. It really helps me with my genetic predisposition to it.

I too have discovered I've done things most of my life that were naturally good for what I should do for me. Freaky isn't it? You knew you even before anyone studied you.

[LTT1]

@tsavorite 

Watched a Dr. Gerber video this morning! Thanks again!

@Laura14 also

At my last physical, my PCP looked at my LDL/HDL values and told me my cholesterol was fine!

Now I need to do homework....I cannot imagine that it is fine now after basically refusing to take that darn statin medicine!