From The Perfect Health Diet, a tragic tale of dead babies and the difficulties of local hill-climbing when you dont have the right abstract knowledge. (This book seems incredibly well-informed (original quote included many footnoted references), I need to check with the community if I should believe everything in it. A great deal of earlier context in the original book has already established that excess omega-6 fatty acids are damaging.) Also, am I missing something, or does the last paragraph imply that babies are *still*, even after the clinical trial, being systematically killed and brain-damaged by Omega-6 overdoses? * Some babies are born with “short bowel syndrome” and need to be given parenteral nutrition, or nutrition delivered intravenously directly to the blood, until their digestive tracts grow and heal. Since 1961, parenteral nutrition has used soybean oil as its source of fat. And for decades, babies on parenteral nutrition have suffered devastating liver and brain damage. The death rate on soybean oil is 30 percent by age four. Finally, doctors at Boston’s Children’s Hospital investigated whether the liver and brain damage might be due to vegetable oils . After studies in mice showed that the liver damage was due to soybean oil, they tried substituting a fish oil–based formula. The results were “freaking amazing,” according to a Children’s Hospital doctor; parents called it “a miracle.” In a clinical trial, of forty-two babies given fish oil, three died and one required a liver transplant; of forty-nine given soybean oil, twelve died and six required a liver transplant. The death-or-liver-transplant rate was reduced from 37 percent with soybean oil to 9 percent with fish oil. Why did it take forty-three years to figure out that soybean oil was killing these babies? An explanation was offered by Dr. Mark Puder of Children’s Hospital: In trying to figure out what was causing PN [parenteral nutrition] to damage the liver, some researchers, like Children’s Judah Folkman, MD, and Robert Shamberger, MD, hypothesized that the injury was due to a missing nutrient that is present in regular food. Others thought that individual components of the solutions themselves might be to blame. Over the years, each theory was ruled out... Fortunately for Puder, he’s not an expert on PN, or he might have ruled out the lipid as the problem from the beginning... “One of the things I didn’t do was read the literature to find out what everyone else was already thinking.” In fact, Puder didn’t realize what everyone else was thinking until he began telling people about his observations, and they, in turn, began telling him he was wrong. “When researchers took the lipid out of PN, and it still caused liver injury , they probably assumed that some other part of the PN preparation was the culprit,” he says. “They never thought to question the type of lipid they were using.” Basically, supplying all calories as carbohydrates causes fatty liver disease through sugar poisoning. Replacing some of the sugar with soybean oil maintains fatty liver disease, this time due to a mix of sugar and omega-6 toxicity. The solution was to reduce sugar *and* omega-6 fats, but that was never tried. Other studies in parenteral nutrition have noted that soybean oil kills immune cells. To reduce this destruction of lymphocytes, researchers are considering switching from a 100 percent soybean oil formula to one with 80 percent olive oil, 20 percent soybean oil. The new formula still kills immune cells, but less prodigiously. * Seriously, am I missing something, or does that last paragraph imply that after the clinical trial showed the answer, those... I dont even know what to call them... are still feeding the babies 100% soybean oil? With respect to the babies, I would also worry that pure fish oil would produce excess omega-3 toxicity, though not nearly as much. The staggering part to me is that nobody involved seems to have thought to ask about the nutritive profile of breast-fed milk and use that, or maybe they did but didnt think to distinguish lipid types at the time. Perils of the wrong abstractions. amazon/Perfect-Health-Diet-Regain-ebook/dp/B007USA6MM/ perfecthealthdiet/category/diets/
Posted on: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 20:09:01 +0000
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