On Thu, 16 May 2002 17:16:20 -0400, Marianne Fuller
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>okay, so just when I thought I was understanding which fats to eat, I'm all
>confused again. I read a bunch of articles by Ray Peat (got the link from
>this group) and he seems to advocate saturated fats (primarily coconut oil
>and butter) and to say that unsaturated fats are the devil! Has anyone else
>read his articles? It's all terribly frustrating. He makes it sound like
>we're already getting too much unsat fat through animals fed bad foods that
>we certainly shouldn't supplement with more (fish oil, flax seed oil, etc. -
>BAD). He says saturated fats (but maybe only coconut oil and butter?) are
>the best and gives all kinds of studies and scientific reasons. I despair of
>ever making sense of it all, I really do.

Well, here I can confuse you more:

http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm

PS   Are you sure Peat said not to take fish oil?   Fish Oil is
unquestionably beneficial for most people living today.


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Cheers,

Ken
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