Ketogenic Diets for Cancer

[gdpawel]

I'm rusty on this, but I think if you stayed with a diet in which fewer than 20% of calories were from fat. In other words, lower your dietary fat to less than 20% of total calories by emphasizing vegetables, fruits, low fat dairy, controlled portions of healthy-type meats, etc.

[AlaskaAngel]

The discussion is very interesting when considered together with many of RB's posts.

It seems to me that by lumping all types of fats together as if the percentage of the diet that is fats is the only important factor, we may be missing a less obvious factor. The chemistry of the type of fat consumed may make a difference.

That usually results in getting side-tracked into a tug of war over the issue of whether it is more ethical to be vegetarian or not. But if one can skip past that discussion and examine the actual chemistry of the metabolism of fats, do vegetable-based fats tend to form different bonds than meat-based fats do, and in the process of metabolism, does one type of fat tend to bond more easily with toxic or cancer-causing substances, causing them to be retained in the body?

A.A.

[R.B.]

^ Hi AA (-:

Totally (-:

Different fats are metabolized very differently and have very different functional effects in the body.

I would argue the type of fat in the diet / looked at in trials is of enormous importance, and is probably the explanation for such varied results in dietary trials.

The utilization of fats by the body is a massive and complex subject.

For those interested in the subject of fats I would suggest inter alia a quick skim of my Omega 3 : 6 post below.

I will try and add some more thoughts in the next few days