Good fats versus bad fat

ahamm002

Hitesc wrote: »

RodaRose wrote: »

Saturated fat is good.

i really hope you are being sarcastic

Saturated fat is at worst neutral. The only fat that is definitely bad is trans fat.

BTW, did you know that some un-saturated fats may be worse for you than saturated fat? The soybean oil found in almost all processed foods these days is at least bad for mice. And the GMO version isn't much better:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150305152111.htm

jddnw

> My take on it is to probably coming around to Michael Pollan's "Eat Food. Mostly Plants. Not too much".

Pollan rocks. And, when he says "eat food," of course he means "real" food, not the edible-foodlike-substances that fill most of the aisles in the supermarket.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/23/michael-pollan-real-food-video_n_1167356.html

jddnw

ahamm002 wrote: »

Hitesc wrote: »

RodaRose wrote: »

Saturated fat is good.

i really hope you are being sarcastic

Saturated fat is at worst neutral. The only fat that is definitely bad is trans fat.

BTW, did you know that some un-saturated fats may be worse for you than saturated fat? The soybean oil found in almost all processed foods these days is at least bad for mice. And the GMO version isn't much better:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150305152111.htm

From the article:

"In their experiments, the researchers gave four groups of mice different diets for 24 weeks. Each group was comprised of 12 mice. The control group received a low-fat diet (5 percent of daily calories from fat). The other groups received a diet with 40 percent of daily calories from fat, an amount common in the American diet. One diet was high in saturated fat from coconut oil, and one had 41 percent of the saturated fat replaced with regular soybean oil. The fourth group had 41 percent of the saturated fat replaced with the GM soybean oil. The body weights, food intake, glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity of all the mice were tracked.
What the researchers found was that mice fed a diet with either of the soybean oils had worse fatty liver, glucose intolerance and obesity than the group that got all their fat from coconut oil. But the mice whose diet included the GM soybean oil had less fat tissue than the animals that ingested regular soybean oil. These mice weighed about 30 percent more than the controls that ate a low-fat diet, while the group on the diet containing regular soybean oil weighed 38 percent more than controls. The mice on the diet that was primarily coconut oil weighed only about 13 percent more than controls. Unlike the diet with regular soybean oil, the diet with the new GM soybean oil did not lead to insulin resistance."


So the controls on the 5% fat diet had better outcomes than any of the three, 40% fat groups?

Liftng4Lis

ddaro86 wrote: »

I wish that my fitness pal would update the fact that polyunsaturated and mono unsaturated fat is good, as compared to saturated fat. Polly and mono-unsaturated fat burns fat.

What?