Wow. Yet another study has come out that links lowfat eating before or during pregnancy to a poor health outcome.
A previous study has linked lowfat dairy consumption in women to infertility.
Now, defenseless little babies are the ones who reap negative health consequences when their Mothers unknowingly swallow the lowfat propaganda.
The study was presented in September 2011 at the European Respiratory Society’s Annual Congress in Amsterdam.
Study results showed that women who ate lowfat yogurt with fruit once a day were 1.6 times more likely to have children who developed asthma by age 7. Â These children were also more likely to have allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and to display current asthma symptoms.
Let’s chalk up this study as reason #1001 to lose the lowfat bandwagon – flawed thinking and logic that has long ago crashed and burned at the bottom of a cliff.
Are you still eating lowfat thinking this is healthy for you?
STOP!
NOW!
What are you waiting for? Â For lowfat to be denounced on the evening news or your conventional doctor to hang his head and tell you that there has been a terrible mistake – that saturated fat is actually good for you and isn’t responsible for clogging up everyone’s arteries after all?
Fat chance (pun most definitely intended).
Take your health in your own hands and read the writing on the wall with the lowfat propaganda that allows Big Dairy to sell you inferior (lowfat) products and then sell the cream to ice cream manufacturers for a handsome profit.
It’s all about splitting up whole milk into as many component products as possible to improve corporate revenue.
It’s the American Corporate Way.
Now you know why you can’t resist that enormous bowl of ice cream (or two) you eat every single night. The fat in your ice cream SHOULD have been in your full fat yogurt smoothie at breakfast and on your salad in the form of full fat cheese at lunch and in your full fat cream sauce over your chicken for dinner.
Because you avoided saturated fat all day long like a dutiful little lemming, you now have to deal with ice cream and other snackie cravings every single evening in front of the TV!
Capish?
You must switch to full fat dairy TODAY which healthy ancestral cultures consumed for thousands of years!
Here’s the bottom line. Â For most people, eating lowfat will more than likely make you fat. Â And if it doesn’t make you fat, you will likely be skinny and hypoglycemic.
I realize that the concept of eating lowfat actually making you fat is a bit of an intellectual paradox, but you have the mental gunpowder to wrap your brain around it, don’t you?
Resolve to break out of the box today and start eating full fat with abandon. Â You will be shocked, amazed, and most importantly DELIGHTED at how better you feel, how much more energy you have, how much your ice cream and sugar cravings diminish, and how much easier it is to maintain your weight.
And, if you are planning on becoming pregnant, learn how full fats can help you not only become pregnant but bear a very healthy, smart, happy child! Â Â The Beautiful Babies E-Class is accepting enrollments through November 15, 2011, so check it out right away before it fills up! Â Click here to learn more.
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
Sources and More Information
Science Daily, Lowfat Yogurt Intake When Pregnant Linked to Increased Risk of Child Asthma and Hay Fever
Medical News Today, Lowfat Dairy Linked to Infertility in Women
We eat full fat, lots of it! I get funny looks from people when I tell them this because our family is very lean, I’m underweight (I’m due with baby #2 in three days and weigh 113 lbs). I love full fat quality butter, yogurt, coconut oil, olive oil, etc. It’s been so many years since I had anything low fat, if I taste something at someone’s home it almost makes me want to gag. It doesn’t even taste like real food.
Eating Lowfat Yogurt While Pregnant a Danger to Baby – The Healthy Home Economist http://t.co/atBoBeNP @healthyhomeecon
I just found out I’m pregnant with my first, and I’ve been horrified at some of the things I’m reading on mainstream pregnancy sites. Advice about lowering fat in recipes. A doctor saying that the mother being under stress won’t have any impact on a baby. Yikes!!
While I’m an enthusiastic “full fat” eater, I do wonder about the details of this study. Women who eat daily low fat yogurt are 1.6 times likelier to have children with asthma. Ok, so who are they comparing these women to? To women who ate full fat yogurt? To women who ate no yogurt at all? Because there are so many factors and when I read one random fact like that, I want to know details because maybe there are other lifestyle issues coming into play. For a study to be done well, the populations should be controlled so that the only variation is the one thing being studied…low fat yogurt in this case. But even there, as I said…is it low fat vs. full fat, or low fat vs. no dairy at all?
Anyway, I do agree full fat is the way to go. I buy organic whole milk and make my own yogurt. I’m pregnant again (12th pregnancy– hoping for 8th live birth) and this kid is getting lots of fat :-).
The aspartame and colorings scare me enough to keep me away from such yogurts. Now, I have another reason.
give me full fat!!!
Low fat anything is bad for everyone including a developing fetus.
But then what about the gallbladder-less ones, like myself? Full fat dairy, in particular, makes me feel very sick to my stomach. I eat a lot of foods that are just naturally low in fat content (not chemically processed commercial “low fat”) foods to keep from being sick. I do enjoy nuts, and almond milk, and will use olive oil when needed (but the smell makes me absolutely gag since doing a gallbladder/liver cleanse.) I wonder if the raw milk would actually be beneficial.
Have you tried Swedish Bitters? They seem to help folks with fat digestion issues.
Yes, you must give raw dairy a go. I’ll bet you would have far less trouble with it than pasteurized dairy. Digestion of raw milk is basically an effortless process for the body while pasteurized dairy really taxes digestion.
I haven’t! I’ll look into that, though! Anything that can help is a plus. I take a pineapple and papaya enzyme and probiotics as well as apple cider vinegar to aid in digestion and tummy issues. :o)
Try eating some homemade sauerkraut. That stuff is excellent for digestion, helps heartburn issues and propagates new strains of bacteria and enzymes into the gut. Also great at fighting yeast infections. The juice from the kraut will even help babies/toddlers fight off thrush (mouth yeast) infections.
I must admit, I tried to make sauerkraut the way the NT Cookbook (Sally Fallon) tells it, but I had no luck and ended up with salty cabbage, not sauerkraut. Now I do it just about the same way, only that I adopted the Amish tradition of using some boiled, then partially cooled water poured over the top rather than just cold, filtered water. It works much better and in about 12 days I have beautiful jars of sauerkraut all over my kitchen counter. I also make something akin to kimchi at the same time.
All homemade fermented foods are excellent for your gut health, which will in turn help your overall health, especially the health of expectant mothers. Pickles, pickled beets, kefir, yogurt, whey used in smoothies, etc.
🙂 People need to start doing their research about what they are eating Every. Day. Our bodies are pretty darned important, &sugars are always to be avoided(artificial anything is worse), and it *should* be widely known that oils&fats are GOOD for you!!:)
It’s always a problem when folks get their emotions twisted around with their way of eating. When people become emotional about an issue, they will die defending it even with their error staring them right in the face.
It becomes a pride issue at that point to defend their point of view, not about what’s right or wrong in an objective sense. I eat the way I do because Traditional Cultures in their wisdom (with no technology or drugs to “save” them when they messed up – they died!) taught these principles to their young.