I recently wrote about yogurt and how it improved my health and can have a positive impact on yours as well. If you haven’t been eating this important food I would recommend you doing some research on your own to get the facts. It has been shown to improve the gut bacteria and is highly beneficial to those who maybe prone to developing pre-diabetes and even those who already have diabetes.
Yogurt that’s enriched with omega fatty acid has what is called ‘good fats’ – fats having the right proportion of this important fatty acid. This type of fat is also found in whole milk and butter. The emphasis here is on whole and minimally pasteurized. Because we live in a society where much of the food is processed by stripping out certain ingredients from the natural product, we are missing the true goodness of foods.
If you have ever had cream or butter made from cows (ruminants) that grazed on good spring grass you would never use any other type of dairy products. I consider it part of my health food diet.
The milk and other dairy goods that stock our store shelves have been processed so much that many of the beneficial nutrients are stripped out and what you are buying are just empty calories that’s contributing to weight gain. To get the full benefits of whole milk and milk products – even eggs, buy these products from stores selling natural foods.
The following article by Taylor Hill explains further the benefits of eating naturals foods to help prevent pre-diabetes.
Eat Like a Dolphin to Fight the Diabetes Pandemic
By Taylor Hill | Takepart.com 23 hours ago Takepart.com
Eat Like a Dolphin to Fight the Diabetes Pandemic
We’ve been told to keep the pounds off and the cholesterol down by staying away from the rich, creamy goodness of full-fat yogurt, whole milk, and butter. But people could learn a thing or two from the role dolphins’ diet plays in preventing disease, according to a new study.
The research, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, found that a certain saturated fat found in fish—and fat-filled dairy products—could aid in reversing metabolic syndrome, or prediabetes.
In humans, metabolic syndrome—identified by high blood sugar levels, high blood pressure, and a 40-inch-plus waist size for men (35 inches for women)—is a precursor to type 2 diabetes.
Scientists recently discovered dolphins can quickly go in and out of diabetes-like states—and that they, too, can develop metabolic syndrome. Because dolphins only eat fish and squid, Stephanie Venn-Watson, lead study author and director of clinical research for the nonprofit National Marine Mammal Foundation, started looking at what was in those fish.
“Metabolic syndrome is already affecting one in three adults in the United States, and if we can understand how dolphins can reverse their levels through their diet, it could be the first step in understanding how removing certain fats can actually negatively affect our health,” said Venn-Watson.
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“There’s been research that shows a higher fish diet in humans keeps you from developing metabolic syndrome, and other papers that aren’t so conclusive on it,” Venn-Watson added. “So, we wanted to look at what types of fish the dolphins were eating, and what types of fats they were getting from those fish, to see if that had an effect.”
The team started measuring fatty acid blood levels of 49 dolphins enlisted in San Diego’s Navy Marine Mammal Program—the marine animals the Navy trains to sniff out sea mines—and 19 wild bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota, Florida.
They then examined how 55 types of fatty acids in various fish types—including capelin, squid, mullet, and pinfish—affected the dolphin’s insulin levels.
After six months of research, one fatty acid—a saturated fat—stood out. It’s called heptadecanoic acid (C-17), and when dolphins showing signs of metabolic syndrome ate fish that contained a lot of it, the levels of insulin, triglycerides, and ferritin in their blood normalized.
So, Why Should You Care? For years, saturated fats have been on most nutritionists “avoid” lists. But the findings could show that the systematic removal of certain fats from the human diet is having the opposite effect. The C-17 fat common in dolphin diets is found in dairy products such as yogurt, milk, and butter but is removed when we process nonfat versions of the stuff.
“There’s more and more evidence emerging that shows that not all fats are bad for us,” Venn-Watson said. “We’re not saying go eat spoonfuls of butter, but this could show that we’re not getting the levels of C-17 that we’re used to.”
If that fatty acid deficiency in humans is having the same effect that it can have on dolphins, then a lack of dairy fat could be playing a role in the world’s diabetes pandemic.
Linking dolphin diets to human diabetes is a stretch, Venn-Watson said, but NMMF has already partnered with children’s hospitals around the U.S. to see if kids with metabolic syndrome and diabetes are showing low levels of C-17.
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P.S. Combine a healthy diet with a workout program aimed at reducing the risk of diabetic complications and you will be well on your way to adding years to your life.