Cancer Articles (Dr. S.N White)

What about fats in plant foods?  There are many current myths about fats. That fats can play both a beneficial role and a damaging one is at the root of the confusion. If you have heart disease, you need to be extra careful about your animal fat intake. Making plant foods the centerpiece of your meals eliminates much of the worry about the amount of fat you take in you’ll automatically get the right kind of fat. Remember that the fats in plants, with a few exceptions like coconut, are good fats . It is the fat from land animals beef and chicken that you need to be concerned about, because they contain large amounts of saturated fats. Natural plant fats are usually unsaturated. Furthermore, animal foods contain cholesterol, whereas there is no cholesterol in plant foods. Aren't nuts high fat foods that I should avoid?  Nuts are high in fat, but these are the good fats. Recent studies have shown that nuts help lower blood cholesterol, and in a major study done by Loma L...

Blood cholesterol is found in particles called lipoproteins, a term derived from lipo, which means fat, and protein. Lipoproteins are complex particles that float around in the blood and contain more or less fat and more or less protein, along with cholesterol and a few other compounds. The more fat they contain, the lighter they are. Lipoproteins are formed in various organs of the body such as the intestinal wall and the liver, and as they travel through the blood, they are modified in various ways. While there are many lipoproteins, we need to focus on only two of them when we think heart disease: LDL and HDL. The most common of the light lipoproteins is LDL flow-density lipoprotein). LDL is often called the “bad” type of cholesterol because it is this type that deposits as plaque in the arteries. High levels of LDL are a major predictor of heart trouble. The more protein lipoproteins contain, the heavier they are, and the most common of these is HDL (high-density lipoprotein)....