Re:A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests
by KozmoNau7 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:54PM
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The diet is only a small part of a given lifestyle, so we can't just boil down the French or mediterranean lifestyles to simply a (stereotypical) diet, rather than looking at all the factors.
It matters how much of that stereotypical food you eat, and the totality of the ingredients.
Plus how sedentary people are, how many snacks they eat outside of meals, hobbies, work, and a whole host of other factors.
The general scientific consensus is pretty clear that saturated fats are unhealthy, trans fats are the worst, and dietary cholesterol seems to not impact serum cholesterol. Science marches on,
I certainly agree about trans-fats. I would never suggest they're healthy. I don't think satiety is the full story about why fast food is unhealthy, nor just the lack of nutrients. It seems to be actively bad. And I'm obviously not focusing on only the fats used during cooking, but I was responding to a comment about palm oil, not about nutrition in general.
Edit: I'm not convinced saturated fats are healthier, either, but I think the science here is very sketchy and generally of low quality.