and the lesser amounts come from:
fat from the animals i’m eating
nuts
coconut oil
and the occasional(rare departure from my diet with some commercial salad dressing or mayonaise.
Hope this doesn’t throw you off, with your post about what’s supposed to be healthy fats. I know i’m kinda in the minority with these types of foods. i’m not sure how i could possibly eat a low carb diet without eating a lot of these fats. I do try extremely hard to eat only organic fats as i know they are carriers of toxins.
Cass, safflower oil would be at the bottom of your list, right? Isn’t it chalk full of omega-6 (the whole processing/and or rancidity factor I will leave aside for now)?
Safflower oil actually has two varieties, a high oleic variety (high MUFA >78%) and a high linoleic variety (high PUFA >78%). I know this fact simply because in my research study we had to use a high PUFA safflower oil to bring the n-6 ratio of the diets to 10%, however, we didn’t analyze the oil until AFTER the study was over (our bad), and we found out it was a high MUFA oil!!! The fricken label was wrong, and I had to repeat the entire study again! ARGHHHHH!!! (that’s what I’m in the process of doing now).
Anyways, I use both types of safflower oil in my diet, but I don’t use it that often (a few times a week).
Like I’ve mentioned before, it’s good to mix up the types of fat you take in each week. So, one day I’ll use a high MUFA olive oil, then the next day I’ll use a high MUFA safflower oil, then the next I’ll use a high PUFA safflower oil etc, etc.
In my view, the ultimate consumption ratio of fats should be 0.7: 1.6: 1.4 (SFA:MONO:POLY) to optimize health and body composition, in a diet of 30% fat or more.
Niel, how do you make a meat less ‘sickeningly’ lean by cooking it well? Do you ADD oil to it then? And yes, buffalo is pretty lean, but I use it as a source of saturated and monounsaturated fat and iron, B12, and protein.
(You guys may not realize that there is just as much mono as saturated fat in beef, bison, and elk. )
“I get most of my fat from animal sources. Isn’t that how it should be?”
Most of your fat comes from animal sources? I don’t personally do that and I think you’ll have a hard time finding people on this forum that do. It flies directly in the face of what we have learned in recent years.
Some animal fat, sure. But letting it be your main source of fat is “less than optimal”.
Are you talking about grass fed beef or corn fed beef(in relation to your mono comment)? Also, do you know where I could find the breakdown of fats other than saturated fats in beef, venison, and bison?
First was fat was evil. Low fat everything. High carbs. Rice cakes, breads, etc.
Wait! No. Ok, you need some fat, but good fats like a little vegetable oil or something like that.
Oh, hold on. Carbs seem like they’re not so good. Or are they? We’re not sure yet and haven’t made up our minds. Fat isn’t as bad as we thought, and you still should get it from vegetable sources.
Ok, what HAVE we learned? What I’ve learned is that these people can’t make up their minds and don’t have a clue.
I’ll eat the way humans are supposed to eat and stay healthy while these clowns try to figure things out. Humans evolved on fatty animal sources, and were able to develop their complex CNS because of it. I’m not going to fly in the face of nature and avoid the foods that made us what we are today.
