Modern Dietary Fat Intakes in Disease Promotion is the follow-up book to the original one published in 2008 under the running title Wild-Type Food in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: The Columbus Concept, 2008 Humana Press Inc, ISBN 978-1-58829-668-9, E-ISBN 978-1-59745-330-1. It shifts focus from examining the beneficial effects of dietary fat intake to targeting the disease-promoting aspects of fat in the human diet.
A review of both disease promotion and disease prevention reveals many diet–health relationships and paradoxes reported regularly in the scientific literature. Perhaps the most frequently neglected family of essential nutrients in contemporary diets is polyunsaturated fatty acids or PUFAs. Their two subgroups omega-6 and omega-3 compete against each other for substrates, intermediaries, and end products in many biological pathways involved in physiological inflammatory processes. A consensus is growing in the modern scientific community about their public health burden through the promotion of chronic degenerative diseases whose incidences and severity continue to increase.
Recent attempts at increasing dietary omega-3 fatty acids in foods to reduce disease have met with limited enthusiasm and acceptance by producers, retailers, and consumers—essentially due to the oxidative instability of these acids. Simultaneously, there is a return to plant and animal foods that reflect the wild standard—in other words, which include healthy omega-6/3 fatty acids with an PUFA ratio of 1:1 and/or a 25% proportion of ?6 highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFAs). The goal is to have more balance in blood serum/plasma total lipids in association with a balanced mixture of naturally occurring antioxidant vitamins and minerals. This is the basis of the Columbus Concept, referred to as a new standard in lipid nutrition; it implies a reduction in the relative contribution of omega-6 fatty acids and favors an absolute increase in the contribution of omega-3 fatty acids to the modern dietary pattern.
Modern Dietary Fat Intakes in Disease Promotion was a challenging but critical book to edit and publish, as the twentieth century has seen food become readily available due to remarkable advances in agricultural and food-processing technologies. There are both benefits and adverse health consequences to removing cholesterol and omega-3 fats from natural foods, hydrogenating PUFAs from vegetable and fish oils/fats by chemical means, designing high-fat/carbohydrate empty-calorie diets, and spreading around non-biodegradable agrochemicals and pesticides. Such practices today appear to belong to a regrettable era of (1) free-market excitement, probably fueled by a lack of humility in recognizing the historical importance of humanity’s adjustment to wild-type foods, and (2) over-confidence in scientific knowledge. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, we have learned from the cholesterol craze that nature-designed foods may not need to be altered to improve their beneficial health effects, save perhaps in subgroups of the world population that are genetically predisposed to specific diseases and for whom a nutrigenetic/genomic approach is more appropriate. Therefore, the twenty-first century appears to be focusing on nutritional sciences based on wisdom and the following basic principles:
- 1. Appropriate balanced intake of essential nutrients.
- 2. Energy intake = energy expenditure.
- 3. Whole foods and/or least-processed foods including the following:
- a. Non-chemically hydrogenated saturated and mono-unsaturated fats for cooking.
- b. Cold-pressed, non-refined, antioxidant-rich polyunsaturated oils for dressing.
- c. Extracted, refined, antioxidant-rich highly unsaturated oils for supplementing.
Modern Dietary Fat Intakes in Disease Promotion calls for a three-level grasp of the feed– food–fork value chain that includes the following reviewed critical aspects:
- 1. Behavior: social, cultural, economic, and educational aspects.
- 2. Composition: fat/protein, triglycerides/phospholipids, and omega-6/-3 ratios.
- 3. Contamination: peroxides, agrochemicals, and microorganisms.
Contents
Part I Behavioral Aspects of Eating
- 1 Western Diet and Behavior: The Columbus Concept
- 2 The Social Context of Dietary Behaviors: The Role of Social Relationships and Support on Dietary Fat and Fiber Intake
- 3 Social Class, Food Intakes and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease in the Developing World: The Asian Paradox
- 4 Social, Cultural, Economical, and Practical Factors
Part II Dietary Fats
- 5 Partially Hydrogenated Fats in the US Diet and Their Role in Disease
- 6 Fatty Acid Ratios in Free-Living and Domestic Animals
- 7 Is Saturated Fat Bad?
- 8 Alteration of Human Body Composition and Tumorigenesis
- by Isomers of Conjugated Linoleic Acid
- 9 Insulin Resistance and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Induced by Conjugated Linoleic Acid in Humans
Part III Fats and Cardiovascular Disease
- 10 Dietary Fat Intake: Promotion of Disease in Carotid Artery Disease: Lipid Lowering Versus Side Effects of Statins
- 11 Recent Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Trials: New Data, New Questions
- 12 Leptin and Obesity: Role in Cardiac Structure and Dysfunction
- 13 Cardiac Structural and Functional Changes in Genetically Modified Models of Obesity
- 14 Fat-Modified Dairy Products and Blood Lipids in Humans
- 15 Modified Milk Fat Reduces Plasma Triacylglycerol Concentrations: Health and Disease Effects
- 16 Dietary Supplements, Cholesterol and Cardiovascular Disease
Part IV Contaminants in Fats and Oils: Role in Illness
- 17 Ill Health Effects of Food Lipids: Consequences of Inadequate Food Processing, Storage and Cooking
- 18 Mycotoxins in Human Diet: A Hidden Danger
- 19 Nutrition–Toxicological Dilemma on Fish Consumption
- 20 Anthropogenic and Naturally Produced Contaminants in Fish Oil: Role in Ill Health
Part V Dietary and Pharmaceutical Approaches to Modify Fat-Induced Disease and Ill-Health
- 21 Do Modern Western Diets Play a Role in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis?
- 22 The Role of Modern Western Diets in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- 23 The Role of Dietary Fat in Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes
- 24 Strategies to Modify School-Based Foods to Lower Obesity and Disease Risk
- 25 Selenium Enigma: Health Implications of an Inadequate Supply
- 26 Homocysteine: Role in Cardiovascular Disease
- 27 Dietary Plant Extracts to Modify Effects of High Fat Modern Diets in Health Promotion
- 28 Don’t Diet: Adverse Effects of theWeight Centered Health Paradigm
- 29 Physical Activity in Diet-Induced Disease Causation and Prevention inWomen and Men
Subject Index
Book Details
- Hardcover: 500 pages
- Publisher: Humana Press; 1st edition (June 21, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1603275703
- ISBN-13: 978-1603275705
- Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.2 x 1.5 inches
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