GOOD FATS!

Latinabluelagoon1970

How do you know which ones are the good fats to have in your diet while you want to lose weight? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated thank you!!!

neanderthin

If the fat in your diet are from whole food sources they're probably good for you. If the oils and fats you add to your
diet retain the nutrients originally found in them, they are better for you as well, like extra virgin olive oil vs regular refined olive oil is one example and butter vs a vegetable based refined product with stabilizers, color and thickening agents added.

Most of the fat in the American diet are omega 6's, mostly from processed foods and refined seed oils like corn and soy, which is a bad main source for your fat intake. Getting enough omega 3 is something you might want to get more of than less in your diet and it compensates for the ridiculously high amounts of n 6's in processed foods because a balance of n:6 to n:3 is so vital to our health and instead of reducing the n:6 in food they're actually adding omega 3's to some processed foods like margarine and soy milk, weight loss formula's, baby food and a lot of cracker, cookie and refined ultra processed flour products. If you follow the money and shareholder value that makes total sense.

If your going to add a oil/fat for cooking then I would suggest it come from either a natural source like ghee, butter, duck fat or olive or avocado oil that are also unrefined and higher in monounsaturated fat than higher in the omega 6's which are polyunsaturated, imo and these are only a few examples. Anyway, there's lots of really bad misinformation and not to mention disinformation and I suggest you do your due diligence and not rely on my opinion or anyone else.

The amount of linoleic acid, an n:6 in human visceral fat has increased from around 7% to over 20% from 1960 and visceral fat is an endocrine organ and functions as that and unfortunately inflammation is one of it's byproducts and with a 3 fold increase in linoleic acid an n:6's in our adipose that is also considered inflammatory, it's probably something you want to actively avoid considering when overweight and obese the leading cause of all associated diseases are a direct result of inflammation. Yeah, self inflicted inflammation is something we don't want to consciously do to ourselves. Shout out to small cold water fish and salmon. Cheers

cmriverside

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