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Are all fats created equal?

  • 19-01-2011 2:48pm
    #1
    HardyEustace
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    I'm starting to track my food as a means to improving my diet.

    It's incredibly high in fat (e.g.today it's freakishly high @47%), two major contributors to that are having a grilled chicken breast for lunch and dinner (23g) but also have two tablespoons of pumpkins for lunch and dinner as well (26g).

    Are these fats worse, better or equal to say an equivalent amount of fat from a creamy bun?


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  • #2
    columok
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    Theories vary. I'm of the opinion that if your diet is low in carbohydrates then animal fats, olive oil, butter, coconut oil should all be eaten in abundance.
    Personally I don't buy the lipid hypothesis (ie that dietary fat makes people fat and kills people). Fats from good sources are a vital part of a healthy diet.


  • #3
    silverharp
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    HardyEustace wrote: »
    I'm starting to track my food as a means to improving my diet.

    It's incredibly high in fat (e.g.today it's freakishly high @47%), two major contributors to that are having a grilled chicken breast for lunch and dinner (23g) but also have two tablespoons of pumpkins for lunch and dinner as well (26g).

    Are these fats worse, better or equal to say an equivalent amount of fat from a creamy bun?

    a bun is full of sugar and other junk. So indeed if the fat is tied in with high carb ingredients then limit. If on the other hand its coming from avocado, meat, go nuts!

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  • #4
    whiteonion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 837 ✭✭✭whiteonion


    HardyEustace wrote: »
    I'm starting to track my food as a means to improving my diet.

    It's incredibly high in fat (e.g.today it's freakishly high @47%), two major contributors to that are having a grilled chicken breast for lunch and dinner (23g) but also have two tablespoons of pumpkins for lunch and dinner as well (26g).

    Are these fats worse, better or equal to say an equivalent amount of fat from a creamy bun?
    I find no evidence that a diet high in fat is bad for you.
    There is plenty of evidence that carbs are bad for your.


  • #5
    rocky
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    When I was dieting to lose weight, I frequently had days of >50% fat, because I love eggs, butter, coconut oil, peanut butter, nuts. No problems, lost the weight and kept it off for 2 months ( :p ).

    There are great health benefits of saturated fats, in liver and cholesterol metabolism. Try and limit PUFAs (poly-unsaturated), as they are more prone to oxidation and increase inflamation markers in the body. Still you could get 1-2 cod liver capsules/day, just don't go overboard with it.


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