Can you eat too many GOOD fats?

In my opinion yes...the human body hasn't evolved that much since the past days.
(a few thousand years are nothing, spoken in durations of evolution).

Take a look at human civilisation 10.000 years ago. Their nutrition was entirely different. More naturals, like berries, seasonal fruits and vegetables and less meat.

The changes made in the food industry in the last 50 years are dramatic.
Everything is always available and we have got to many options. On the one hand this might be blessing, but on the other hand it will be our health's curse. Simply because our bodys hadn't the time to evolve as fast.


Even if you mostly eat "good fats" you are eating a lot more than your evolutionary seen thousands of years old body.
I try to avoid all additional fats like oil and butter. If I cook meat I usually don't use that much oil...only half a teaspoon or sometimes even no oil at all.

Nuts are good...of course...but keep in mind, which effort had to be expended for a few thousand years to "harvest" them. Find a nuts bush, collect them, peel them and only then you were able to eat them.
We tend to eat too much of them, because we can buy them in 1kg-packages :ohwell:


In my opinion our sparsely evolved human bodies don't need that much fat as always propagandized.
One should try to calculate what our ancestors a few thousand years ago have consumed...that would really help

simple answer: yes, just like you can go over on good complex carbs

I watched a great documentary called on this last night called "Fathead." It streams on Netflix if you have it if not, here is the website with most of his information: http://www.fathead-movie.com/ It is a slightly comedic answer to "Supersize Me." Basically lives on a fast food diet for a month with a 2000 calorie/day limit. He didn't limit fats, only kept the carbs below 100 g/day. He increases his exercise from walking 2 times a week to 5. In the end, he loses something like 12 lbs and loses like 3% body fat, and decreases his cholesterol. In it, he explains what fats are considered "good" vs. "bad" and the implications with the supposed "good fats" and "low-cholesterol and low-fat" diet over last 50 years (obesity, heart disease, diabetes). It also gives a lot of well documented, peer-reviewed studies to support his hypothesis and debunks the science on which the American Heart Association bases their low-fat, low-cholesterol diet. He lists the good fats as animal fats, nuts, avocados, and coconut oil. The vegetable, corn, canola, and if I remember correctly, olive oil are the bad fats. Anyway, it was quite interesting. Just give it a whirl and judge for yourself. Like the above poster, I think if you balance it all out with over some days and under others, you'll be fine. Moderation in all things!