tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953444985644218403.post3634433571679923927..comments2023-09-29T02:12:53.060-07:00Comments on Cancer Recovery and Fitness Specialist: Health advisory: omega-6 fatty acids help the heartRent to Ownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10201325110797697127noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953444985644218403.post-58794609016469116332009-03-01T18:57:00.000-08:002009-03-01T18:57:00.000-08:00The AHA made sweeping statements that are not supp...The AHA made sweeping statements that are not supported by the research, while disregarding studies that show omega-6 fats increase cancer risk.<BR/><BR/><BR/>While I would not expect a heart scientist to be an expert on cancer, I would certainly hope that if heart experts are claiming that there is no harm from eating the current high levels of omega-6 fat, that they would use an inter-disciplinary approach to confirm their thinking. That's not what happened.<BR/><BR/>Large studies from the USA, France and Sweden indicate a compelling link between high intakes of omega-6 fat and the development of breast cancer. <BR/><BR/>For example, in a case-control study on nearly 1700 women, researchers demonstrated that women with a particular gene had a two-fold increase in breast cancer risk if they ate high levels of omega-6 fat. <BR/><BR/>Yet, this genotype had no influence on breast cancer risk, if these women ate a lower omega-6 fat diet.<BR/><BR/><BR/>In 1999, there was enough scientific evidence to prompt scientists to recommend an upper limit for omega-6 fats, to no more than 6.7 grams per day. This ceiling is based on eating a maximum of 3% fat calories from omega-6 fat.<BR/><BR/>Now, ten years later, the American Heart Association is urging people to continue to eat more than double that amount.<BR/><BR/>Conspicuously absent from AHA's report were the findings of the famous study, which made the Mediterranean diet a household name---the Lyon Diet Heart study.<BR/><BR/>This large intervention trial involved two groups of heart patients from France, who were fed either a Mediterranean diet (low in omega-6 polyunsaturated fat) or a diet advocated by the American Heart Association, with indiscriminate use of polyunsaturated fats. <BR/><BR/>The group eating the Mediterranean diet had a striking 70% reduction in all causes of death, including cancer, compared to the group eating the "heart healthy diet".<BR/><BR/>If you interviewed, Michel de Lorgeril, the lead investigator of that famous study, he would likely disagree with AHA's advisory.<BR/><BR/> Why? Because his study was specifically designed to be low in omega-6 fat, to mirror the indigenous mediterranean diet of Crete Islanders, who have a low rate of heart disease. <BR/><BR/>Just last month, de Legoril chastised researchers for ignoring the omega-6 factor, "...the epidemiologists does not capture one major lipid characteristic of the Mediterranean diet, which is actually low in omega-6".<BR/><BR/>These are just a few examples of the problems with AHA's advisory there is alot more to this story.<BR/>Sources:<BR/>What happened to do no harm? The issue of dietary omega-6 fatty acids.<BR/> Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids.2009;80(1):78-79. Full Text Link:<BR/>http://tinyurl.com/c8h9h3<BR/><BR/>www.Omega-6-News.org<BR/>Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDEvelyn Tribole, MS, RDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16722223658558978746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953444985644218403.post-82528373162113042922009-03-01T18:49:00.000-08:002009-03-01T18:49:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16722223658558978746noreply@blogger.com