I intend to continue having a variety of natural fats in my diet, including highly saturated types like butter and unrefined coconut oil. I've kept track at Fitday for nearly 3 years and average daily intake of 23% saturates - some days higher, sometimes lower. In that time, my lipid panel has improved and blood pressure has come way down. I have however made a conscious effort to eliminate processed fats and trans fats, and avoid vegetable oils which are mostly omega-6 polyunsaturates, such as soybean and corn oil.

From all the reading I've done, I'm confident that as long as I'm not eating a lot of carbohydrate foods, in particular grains and starches, then dietary fat composition isn't a health issue. If you think about it .. grains and corn are fed to animals before slaughter to fatten them up, and it changes the ratios of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, especially the omega-6 to 3 ratio. It stands to reason grains will do the same thing in our bodies too.




Doreen