Fats

Snickers2424
Snickers2424 Posts: 16 Member
edited November 26 in Health and Weight Loss
I have a question regarding fats I hope someone can help me with. From my understanding Polyunsaturated and Monounsaturated are the fats we should be fitting into our diets over the saturated and trans fats. However, when I eat any monounsaturated or polyunsaturated fats, no matter how much, it shows I am in the negative for the day. Not so for saturated though. I am allotted 60 gm per day. Am I missing something? Any help in understanding this would sure be appreciated.

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  • missh1967
    missh1967 Posts: 661 Member
    There are no set standards or requirements for those fats in MFP, that's why it shows up as a negative. Ignore it. Just eat the fats you want.
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    Saturated fats have a goal as a limit to stay under - there is no such limit for unsaturated fats.
  • Snickers2424
    Snickers2424 Posts: 16 Member
    Oh, okay thank you. That makes sense!!
  • Lillymoo01
    Lillymoo01 Posts: 2,865 Member
    I just change my fat goals so those 2 Don't come up as a negative because not seeing red makes me feel better.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    What everyone else said. MFP messes things up long ago and gave it a goal of 0 when it used to say N/A.
  • andreaen
    andreaen Posts: 365 Member
    Actually the whole saturated vs unsaturated fats has kind of become debunked. The saturated ones weren't as bad as they thought. Eat the fats you desire, but maybe stay away from the highly processed ones. Also, the unsaturated fats like nuts and olive oil have health benefits, so they are good to include, but no reason to exclude the saturated.

    This article explains it, but really just google "why saturated fat isn't bad" and you'll get tons of results.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,431 MFP Moderator
    andreaen wrote: »
    Actually the whole saturated vs unsaturated fats has kind of become debunked. The saturated ones weren't as bad as they thought. Eat the fats you desire, but maybe stay away from the highly processed ones. Also, the unsaturated fats like nuts and olive oil have health benefits, so they are good to include, but no reason to exclude the saturated.

    This article explains it, but really just google "why saturated fat isn't bad" and you'll get tons of results.

    It's not exactly debunked. But SFA don't have the health benefits as PUFA/MUFA. It just means, they aren't harmful, as once thought.
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