Obesity and Fitness Are Revolutionized By Reddit, Not Doctors

Re:Obesity and Fitness Are Revolutionized By Reddit, Not Doc... by peterwwillis on Monday August 13, 2012 @05:29PM (#4378253)

Bad fats still do good things for you. It's weird, but you actually need some saturated fats in your diet. But more of the 'good' fats is safer. The only fat you should never eat is trans fats [anything listing 'hydrogenated' or 'shortening'] because they negatively affect both HDL and LDL.

Fucking dieticians, how do they work?

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Re:Obesity and Fitness Are Revolutionized By Reddit, Not Doc... by fingerprinter on Monday August 13, 2012 @08:49PM (#4378878)

Bad fats aren't saturated fats. Milk is saturated fat. Milk is pretty awesome for you, especially if you are trying to gain muscle.

Trans fats, as you mention, are the real bad fats. The whole '80s and '90s in terms of diet really, really screwed us up. I wish I knew then what I know now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat

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Re:Obesity and Fitness Are Revolutionized By Reddit, Not Doc... by peterwwillis on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @12:07AM (#4379352)

Almost every article you find from Googling "good and bad fats" show all saturated fats as bad, because of a increase in risk of cardiovascular problems in some studies. Completely ignoring the wealth of positive[1] effects[2] from saturated fats. They even lump in trans fats as if they have exactly the same risk factors.

[1] http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/2... [2] http://www.marksdailyapple.com/saturated-fat-healthy/

P.S. you know there's a whole anti-milk cabal that tracks down and castrates anyone who says milk is good for you? be careful out there.

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