Completely removing lard instead of vegetable oil, Vietnamese people are 'self-harming'?

According to experts, vegetable oil or lard have health benefits, everyone needs to use in parallel with the specific dose suitable for each age.

Animal fat is a traditional material that is processed easily and used by many people. Over the years, due to fear that saturated fat (found mainly in animal fats) increases cholesterol levels and causes cardiovascular diseases, the body 'weakens' , so many people ' boycott ' animal fat. They look to vegetable oils in hopes of protecting their health. So where is the safe choice?

Animal fat or vegetable oil are both nutritious

According to the doctor, Nguyen Trong Hung - Deputy Head of the Department of Clinical Nutrition and Moderation, Central Endocrinology Hospital, animal fat, specifically lard, has long been considered a rich food. Nutrition , provides a lot of energy for the body.

In lard contain types such as saturated fatty acids, proteins, vitamins A, D, especially cholesterol necessary for cell structure, good for nerve cells.

Therefore, when used at a moderate level, it will work to stabilize blood capillaries, protect the circulatory system of the body, prevent brain hemorrhage. Not only that, lard is also involved in the body's metabolic enzymes, including sexual hormones and adrenal glands.

Animal fat, specifically lard, has long been considered a nutritious food.

Thanks to such effects, according to Dr. Hung, people should not give up lard in the family's meals . Especially children or middle-aged people should use lard or when eating meat should have a little fat so that the function does not weaken.

'The substances in lard have been proven for a long time to have a very good effect on anti-inflammatory and cardiovascular health protection. So we always have to make use of, not abandon the use of animal fat, " said Dr Hung.

Meanwhile, unlike lard, vegetable oil contains many unsaturated fatty acids, many vitamins E, K, little or no cholesterol. Therefore, vegetable oils are more easily absorbed and can help the body lower the bad cholesterol in the blood, avoiding some diseases.

However, according to Dr. Hung, vegetable oil when boiled for too long at high temperatures or used to fry many times will produce bad substances, harmful to health. That's not to mention the use of many fried foods, stir-fry with a large amount of vegetable oil, causing the body to gain weight, obesity, even cardiovascular diseases, blood fat, liver fat and cardiovascular 'like lard. .

Sharing the same view with Dr. Hung, Dr. Le Thi Hai, former Director of the Nutrition Advisory Center, National Institute of Nutrition also said that it would be wrong for many people to completely remove lard in their meals. day.

Only people over the age of 50 who are suffering from fat metabolism (increasing cholesterol) must abstain from lard. As for children and ordinary people, lard is very good for the development of the body, especially preventing myopia.

Thus, according to experts, if people are too dependent on vegetable oil, but from removing lard and animal fat for a long time, it will make the body more difficult to absorb, imbalance about nutrition. Nourishment, deficiency of some essential vitamins and risk of bone diseases, hormonal disorders, physical weakness, increased risk of myocardial infarction, and even vision problems .

Care should be taken in how to use and preserve

According to Dr. Hung, although people are gradually "forgotten" but does not mean they do not consume animal fat. Because animal fat can appear in many daily dishes such as meat, shrimp, fish, chicken, cows . provides the development of the body.

Similarly, vegetable oils are found in vegetables, tubers and fruits when they contain a small amount of essential oils for the body.

Pig fat or vegetable oil, giving up any food is not good for the body.

So, according to Dr. Hung, lard or vegetable oil, giving up any food is not good for the body. Instead, people should use parallel, harmonious and specific doses of each type for each specific age to be good and avoid disease.

People should also practice for themselves to limit eating fried, stir-fry, and fried dishes, so use boiled, steamed, mixed dishes to avoid the risk of causing the body to absorb too much cooking oil or fat.

When using animal fat, people should only use a moderate amount, enough to eat. As for vegetable oils for cooking, only stir fry, just right, don't cook too much, or use fried oil to fry will produce harmful substances.

In addition, Dr. Hung also warned, people should pay attention to the preservation process of both vegetable oil and fat. Because it is the good or bad food preservation that will affect the effects and harms of cooking oil or animal fat.

'In principle, we have to use a variety of foods. It is also impossible to use only fat without oil, but it is unreasonable to use only oil without fat. Because both fat and cooking oil are important and need to be used equally.

Depending on the daily routine, people should flexibly choose both foods so that they are reasonable and should not be overused or too inclined to use any variety, ' said Dr. Hung.