Do you limit your saturated fat intake?
 

I was wondering how many of you limit or get nervous with your saturated fat intake?

I have yet to see any real study that shows saturated fat with a low carb diet to be dangerous, but yet everywhere I look I see people saying evil saturated fat. Even on this forum I have seen a few times people say how bad for you saturated fat is and so I was curious... do you limit the amount of saturated fat you eat?

I personally eat all fats (except for trans fats) and it doesnt bother me at all when my saturated fat intake is higher sometimes. But I dont view saturated fats as bad. I just try and keep 70% of my calories from fat and thats it.

Into my 21st month, I now crave fats, including animal fats, in place of carbs. Nyah Levi

Yes, I watch my sat fat intake. I'm just not prepared to ignore all of those years of medical findings (some of which I actually helped research, lol). But it's not that hard for me to do since I'm on maintenance and I've never really liked red meat anyway. I don't go real low on sat fats--maybe 18-20% of calories.

I actually try to pay more attention to it now. I am not obsessive with it, though.

I don't pay any attention to saturated fats at the moment. I'm still losing weight, so I can't imagine there being any particular imbalance.

If I were to have an honest conversation with myself, in a sense that there were no documentation on the dangers of fats, my body would tell me to loadem up. I love the dark meat of chicken and fatty cuts of meats esp. steaks. Nothing compares to the flavor and creaminess of butter. I have shared my bloodwork with you guys. You know how good my cholesterol and triglycerides are! To admit to loving fats, out loud, is like saying I sleep with 5 men daily. But in all honesty, I love fats. My mom used to fuss at me because of the butter and sour cream that I would add to foods. She should have fussed at me for eating the damn baked potato instead. :agree:

We crave foods for various reasons. I craved fats because I was not eating enough of it. I craved carbs because I was eating too many.

:roll: Black Out

I *don't* worry about eating too much saturated fat, and here's why:

http://www.westonaprice.org/know_your_fats/skinny.html

Creeeeeeam ...
 

I had an appointment with an alternate health care provider who after reviewing my excellent bloodwork asked me how I keep my lipid levels so low. I answered: "Lots and lots of saturated fats".

If you listen hard enough, I think you can still hear her jaw hitting the floor. :lol:

But it is true for me, when I added ~1/4 - 1/2 cup of heavy cream into my daily diet, my weight loss sped up and my blood fats decreased. This probably would have been true if I'd increased the ratio with the poly and mono fats, too, but they're not near as tasty. :lol:

1/4 to a 1/2 a cup of heavy cream daily? wow, if you dont mind my asking, what is your ratio?

Once in a while I have half a cup of cream and that always throws my ratio out of whack.

I don't limit my saturated fat per se, but by default, I tend to not get enough of the other fats - wild salmon and omega 3 eggs are expensive, grinding flax seeds is a pain in the butt, olive oil doesn't taste as good as butter, avocadoes don't keep well... y'know. I have to make a point to consume the others.

the only fat i stay away from is trans fat. i consider all other fat good as long as i keep my carbs low. my ratios run approx 70% fat, protein 25% & carbs 5%.
i beleive it is consuming high carbs and high fat that gives you problems

jes

down with transfats!
 

I only stay away from trans fats (completely). I don't pay attention to any other fats. I use olive oil and butter. However, I eat JUST until I'm satisfied; never stuffed. Overeating is the biggest problem we have...JMO.

Moderation, moderation, moderation. :)

If I stopped to think about it, I would use olive oil to "sautee" some onions instead of butter, for the saturated/unsaturated reason, but I don't care enough about it to make it a point. Make sense?

And I get a total kick out of telling people I'm on a high-fat diet. They look at me like I'm insane, and I grin like a maniac. And I keep losing weight! Ha!

I can TELL when something has saturated fat - it makes me feel better.

I don't really pay attention to saturated fats. But then again, I don't eat any red meat, so I probably don't have a lot of it in my diet. And my husband eats all meat and then some, and he doesn't keep track of saturated fats either. We did cut out trans fats (at least the obvious ones that we know about).

~Kelly Deneen :)

I make popsicles out of lard....No I'm kidding, but I don't watch sat. fat.
I eat mostly red meat, I'm still losing and feel great. Just haven't seen anything to convince me to worry about yet.

I don't do the FitDay thing consistently, but when I have, I hover around 70%.

why watch saturated fats?
 

:nono: I never watch my saturated fats. If anything, I watch my intake of vegetable oils. Why? Think about it just a moment. For how much of human history have we derived any significant portion of our fat from corn or soybeans(or the highly toxic rape plant from which canola oil is extracted)? Less than one hundred years, my friends.
During this same time period, carbohydrate and trans-fat consumption also increased dramatically, along with the rates of degenerative disease. So who is to say that all three of these new additions to our diet don't work together to kill us?

I love this board! Thanks Idahospud for the article on fats. I saved it to show the "doubters" in my family. But slowly, everyone is coming around. I just read an article in the Ladies Home Journal about women and heart health and it said nothing about limiting fat intake, but it talked about weaning yourself off of high-glycemic foods. It did mention caution about fried foods (not because of the breading, but because of the oils oxidizing into damaging free radicals at high temps).

Mio.......
 

Mio........

Perhaps I'm a little slow this morning, but I'm not at all clear on what you're saying about vegetable oils. You mention soybean and Canola oil. Are you also say that olive oil is not good for you? This is the very first I've heard about vegetable oil being a negative health issue. Can you lead me to some literature to back this up? I'm not arguing the point, I'm just saying I've studied health for many years (including writing a health and fitness column for our local newspaper) and I've never heard this before. Maybe I misunderstood.

Thanks. :help:

Oil
 

Has any one tried the new Oil Out? Called Envoa?/ It is great

http://www.westonaprice.org/know_your_fats/oiling.html

I think thats the page that discusses the dangers of Veg oils but its actually all over the weston a price website along with many others.

Olive oil isnt bad in moderation but canola or corn oil I avoid totally.

I am starting to use more and more butter in my diet now

Yes, since I got a very poor lipid profile I´ve decided to watch it.

I believe this is Women's Heart Month. There is a grocery store that is advertizing low carb alternatives, that it carries, in support of Women's Health month. The store, of course is just trying to keep its head above water. As you might know, many Southern CA grocers are on strike. However, I found it interesting that this was listed among items that contributed to a healthy heart.

I dunno
 

I read it all (and that took forever :rolleyes: ), but can't say I saw anything about oil in its original form being bad for you. Hydrogenated oils, yes, because of the trans fats. Olive oil (according to my hubby's cardiologist and endogronologist) is very heart healthy; which is what I've heard all my life.

I use both olive oil and butter but nothing else. You can also find literature on how butter is not good for you. I don't agree (in moderation) that it is, but you can still find literature which says it is.

I guess what I'm trying to say is this: If you read everything out there, you'll find that every food in the world is bad for you; according to one person or another.

I've used olive oil for years (in great quantitites) and my last lipid test was perfect. So I guess we're just back to everyone is different. I still say....moderation, moderation, moderation is the key to health (and regular exercise). JMO

Thanks for the link. :)

Kristine wrote, "olive oil doesn't taste as good as butter..."
Here's a secret to great tasting veggies, meats, and eggs: saute them in equal amounts of butter and olive oil combined. (smootching my fingers, like a French chef!)

I don't pay attention to where my fats come from. I usually have a salad everyday with vinaigrette dressing made with olive oil, and fry my eggs, and saute meats in the above combo of fats. Tonight I really enjoyed my sauted lamb chop with Greek seasoning and mint relish. Ate it, fat and all. How satisfying!

I was so into chicken and turkey and white meats that adding back the butter and the red meat was hard, but I felt so much better and more energized after!