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**Doug Freyburger** · November 27th, 2010, 10:46 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb

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Awe the fats issue. Personally I am not so down on the sat fats.

Well read low carbers tend to not worry about animal fats. Essentially
every study that has ever been down to show problems with saturated fats
was done with high carb eating test subjects. Try it with low carbers
and the results don't track. It isn't the saturated fats that is the
problem - It is the sum of carb calories plus saturated fat calories.

While I do try to get a variety of omega-3 fats. But for some cooking
I use the truly saturated fat coconut grease.

I like the slight subtle flavor. I get it in the Hispanic row of the
local grocery. It's cheap there. When I see the fancy extra virgin
coconut oil in the specialty row of the local grocery store it's
expensive.

Animal fats are less
saturated than the dieticians realize in that they have high
levels of the proinflammatory polyunsaturated fatty acid
arachidonic acid.

Generally low carb tends to reduce inflammation so having one fatty acid
that is proflamitory ends up a net reduction.

There's little down side to replacing animal fat with your choice of
plant fat if you want to do that. It's possible to find studies of
equal calories one high in animal fats and another replacing much of
the animal fats with polyunsaturated fats - Such studies appear to give
a slight edge in weight loss to replacing the animal fats. It appears
to be a lot of work for a small but real advantage.