Are monstrative fat bad

samueljones6076
samueljones6076 Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition
They come up in eggs and stuff and also like candy so is it bad ?
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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 33,942 Member
    samueljones6076 wrote: »
    They come up in eggs and stuff and also like candy so is it bad ?

    Do you mean saturated fat? I don't think "monstrative fat" is a standard term, and it's definitely not on labels here or in the MFP food database.

    Saturated fat isn't necessarily bad, but it's a thing most mainstream nutrition experts think we shouldn't go overboard on. Advocates for keto/carnivore eating styles may disagree with that mainstream view, however.
  • Hobartlemagne
    Hobartlemagne Posts: 511 Member
    Maybe he meant monounsaturated fat?
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 33,942 Member
    Hobartlemagne wrote: »
    Maybe he meant monounsaturated fat?

    Oh, good point! You're probably right.

    @samueljones6076, if that's what you meant, monounsaturated (and polyunsaturated) fats are regarded as good fats, to be consumed in balance with saturated fats.

    The goals for them are zero in MFP because MFP follows mainstream nutritional experts' recommendations. The mainstream experts regard those as "good fats", but haven't set specific goal values for them, so MFP left the default goals as zero. You can modify those goals to some positive value that makes sense to you, if the zero goal bothers you.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,185 Member
    edited July 25
    Generally speaking any fat that is found naturally in that food and consumed within that food is neither good or bad. The fats in an egg therefore shouldn't be something to be concerned about, imo.

    Candy or any processed food where fat is added then that is a different situation because the process to extract those fats can expose those fats to harm making them more unhealthy and the one to really stay away from are polyunsaturated fats because of their susceptibility to peroxidation and also to our omega balance which when out of what nature likes them to be, is very inflammatory to our bodies and at the moment that balance is extremely excessive in the omega 6's which are the polyunsaturated fats which create a lot of free radicals that cause cell damage which include our DNA, and cell death, this is really an under emphasized human health problem. Inflammation is the basic foundation to most non communicable diseases, so it's kind of an important fact to understand. Basically my opinion is that refined polyunsaturated fats should be consumed at a minimum which would include most refined seed oils and suggest you stick with fruit oil like olive and avocado if your using any cooking oils in your diet. :)

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