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I've always wondered if the saturated fat in coconuts is bad for you..
The answer is simple: Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.
I haven't listened to the whole talk yet and take it the poster's angle is that there is a lot more to diet, nutrition and preventable diseases like Ischaemic heart disease than just 'saturated fats and cholesterol'. Yes. No doubt. But they are still terrible for you in high doeses, Epidemiological studies have shown this beyond a doubt and the basic science is sound.
Useless because, for example, population study after population study showed that low-cholesterol diets did not improve blood-cholesterol. Furthermore, it was common to find populations with high-cholesterol diets that had an excellent blood-cholesterol profile, and, conversely, populations with low-cholesterol diets and a bad blood-cholesterol profile.
A bad idea because, among other things, low-cholesterol diets will immediately lower your blood Testosterone. Recall that cholesterol is the most basic steroid; from it, all other steroids, including anabolic androgenic steroids such as Testosterone, are metabolized. A diet with a good amount of cholesterol is a necessary condition to achieve good levels of Testosterone.
Why would a hacker care about his Testosterone levels?? Some examples:
Males with high Testosterone perform better in arithmetic and mathematics than males with low testosterone. Males with high Testosterone levels have better short-term-memory. Males with high Testosterone have good mood; whereas low Testosterone causes depression, mood-swings, and angry reactions to minor things.
So, for at least 12 years, I have made it a point to have two jumbo eggs for breakfast. And that's not the only source of cholesterol and saturated fat in my diet. I do, however, make sure that I do not ingest too much saturated fat ... and there are too many more details to my diet to discuss here.
I've always wondered if the saturated fat in coconuts is bad for you..
You are looking at things from a "nutrionism" point of view http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.... The answer is simple: Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.
Thumbs up for Frederic Bastiat quote. Thumbs down for presumably hosting with WordPress.
Though all it'd take to fix is 3 clicks to install a caching plugin, usually.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are looking at things from a "nutrionism" point of view http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.... The answer is simple: Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.
I don't really like that simplification. Potatoes and wheat are both plants and people eat far too much of both.
I've always wondered if the saturated fat in coconuts is bad for you..
Science?