Re: Plasma zinc test on Monday wen do i stop taking zinc pic
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:15 am
i do mean the natural fruit sugar. stick with your breakfast smoothie, but if you start to feel worse as days go by without supplements, consider reducing your fructose intake.
in the long term, after the testing, you should be okay to have limited servings of coconut. the sat fat is lauric acid which appears to raise HDL (good) cholesterol:
Effects of dietary fatty acids and carbohydrates on the ratio of serum total to HDL cholesterol and on serum lipids and apolipoproteins: a meta-analysis of 60 controlled trials
http://www.ajcn.org/content/77/5/1146.f ... a9e9fc3566
"Individual saturated fatty acids
Lauric acid markedly increases cholesterol, whereas stearic acid lowers it somewhat when it is used to replace carbohydrates. However, the picture reverses if one looks at total:HDL cholesterol: both lauric and stearic acid are now more favorable than carbohydrates. Lauric acid—a major component of tropical oils such as coconut and palm kernel fat—has the largest cholesterol-raising effect of all fatty acids, but much of this is due to HDL cholesterol. As a result, lauric acid had a more favorable effect on total:HDL cholesterol than any other fatty acid, either saturated or unsaturated."
caveat: this study is a meta analysis and i haven't gone through and checked the funding for all the cited studies, but i know there are certain of these fats/oils whlch are studied by research institutions based in the major country of production, just a minor economic bias..
fyi re raw coconut meat - 1 oz (28g) is mildly inflammatory, so you can eat it but you'd need to balance it against something else even more anti-inflammatory.
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/nut ... cts/3106/2
(if you want to check diff serving sizes just use the svg size drop-down menu top left)
in the long term, after the testing, you should be okay to have limited servings of coconut. the sat fat is lauric acid which appears to raise HDL (good) cholesterol:
Effects of dietary fatty acids and carbohydrates on the ratio of serum total to HDL cholesterol and on serum lipids and apolipoproteins: a meta-analysis of 60 controlled trials
http://www.ajcn.org/content/77/5/1146.f ... a9e9fc3566
"Individual saturated fatty acids
Lauric acid markedly increases cholesterol, whereas stearic acid lowers it somewhat when it is used to replace carbohydrates. However, the picture reverses if one looks at total:HDL cholesterol: both lauric and stearic acid are now more favorable than carbohydrates. Lauric acid—a major component of tropical oils such as coconut and palm kernel fat—has the largest cholesterol-raising effect of all fatty acids, but much of this is due to HDL cholesterol. As a result, lauric acid had a more favorable effect on total:HDL cholesterol than any other fatty acid, either saturated or unsaturated."
caveat: this study is a meta analysis and i haven't gone through and checked the funding for all the cited studies, but i know there are certain of these fats/oils whlch are studied by research institutions based in the major country of production, just a minor economic bias..
fyi re raw coconut meat - 1 oz (28g) is mildly inflammatory, so you can eat it but you'd need to balance it against something else even more anti-inflammatory.
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/nut ... cts/3106/2
(if you want to check diff serving sizes just use the svg size drop-down menu top left)