This week’s Photo Friday is also a recipe, for Broccoli and Bacon stir fry. This one is pretty easy and there are multiple versions of it online, I chose this version to share:
See: Broccoli and Bacon Stir Fry Recipe – Todd Porter and Diane Cu | Food & Wine
I would omit the worcestershire sauce, however, since it’s almost pure sugar, defeating the purpose of healthy fat/carbohydrate ingestion.
As expected, there was no blood glucose excursion, as measured by a continuous glucose monitor:
The topic of saturated fat in the diet has been discussed extensively, and will be discussed extensively soon as the USDA prepares for 2020 nutritional guidelines:
In addition, these are the current sources of saturated fat in the Standard American Diet (SAD), making it hard for epidemiologists to tease out whether saturated fat is a nutrient of concern or not:
More sophisticated meta-analyses and prospective cohort studies are showing that it is probably not a nutrient of concern.
I would now caveat the above with a new paper written by @DavidLudwigMD et. al, commenting on the role of ultra-processed foods and metabolic disease:
New Comment on ultra-processed foods and obesity:
👉Glycemic load – effects increase over 6 months
👉Processed foods – effects decrease over 2 weeks👉Other points of confusion addressed
Diet Wars? Let’s keep the debate respectful and let’s keep it going https://t.co/ZmBPYQp7if pic.twitter.com/Z0bv6r4k44
— Dr. David Ludwig (@davidludwigmd) July 2, 2019
Ludwig DS, Astrup A, Bazzano LA, Ebbeling CB, Heymsfield SB, King JC, et al. Ultra-Processed Food and Obesity: The Pitfalls of Extrapolation from Short Studies. Cell Metab [Internet]. 2019 Jun; Available from: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1550413119303079
Regardless, there isn’t going to be much/any science supporting refined carbohydrates as an ideal vehicle for saturated fat compared to plants. If there is any, feel free to pass it my way 🙂 .
Enjoy the recipe.