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>“Saturated fat is very dangerous,” said Dr. Martha Gulati, the director of preventive cardiology at the Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute in Los Angeles. As a

>“Saturated fat is very dangerous,” said Dr. Martha Gulati, the director of preventive cardiology at the Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute in Los Angeles. As a doctor who treats patients trying to avoid heart disease, she said, she can’t get behind the “beef tallow is healthy” trend. >Even if you look at the vitamins beef tallow contains, Ms. Yu said, they’re not present at “significant” enough levels to make a big difference in your health. >Over many decades of research, scientists have found that people who favor sources of unsaturated fats (like vegetable oils) over saturated ones (like butter or lard) are more likely to have healthier hearts. It's your body.

dlcarrier 2y ago
All of those variations occur within plant-based oil sources, too. Coconut oil has significantly more saturated fat than lard or tallow, and unclarified plant oils have non-trivial micronutrients, while clarified plant oils have nearly none. Meanwhile, whole fruits and vegetables have such high levels of micronutrients that the amount in unclarified plant oils is meaningless, in comparison. Also, how do you define favoring certain foods? People that make an express attempt to eat healthy eat the foods that they hear are healthy. If a few of those foods have no effect on health, or even a negative effect, favoring those foods will still correlate positively to better health outcomes, as long as the rest of the advised food is healthy. Compared to the health effects shown in research on how much food to eat, especially how much whole foods vs added refined fats and sugars, the effects of one refined oil verses another makes little difference. I'll take the major health benefits I get from limiting my intake of refined oils, but don't see any value in bothering with the clinically insignificant, and possibly statistically insignificant, benefits of only eating the less tasty refined oils, when I do eat them.

dlcarrier 2y ago

All of those variations occur within plant-based oil sources, too. Coconut oil has significantly more saturated fat than lard or tallow, and unclarified plant oils have non-trivial micronutrients, while clarified plant oils have nearly none. Meanwhile, whole fruits and vegetables have such high levels of micronutrients that the amount in unclarified plant oils is meaningless, in comparison. Also, how do you define favoring certain foods? People that make an express attempt to eat healthy eat the foods that they hear are healthy. If a few of those foods have no effect on health, or even a negative effect, favoring those foods will still correlate positively to better health outcomes, as long as the rest of the advised food is healthy. Compared to the health effects shown in research on how much food to eat, especially how much whole foods vs added refined fats and sugars, the effects of one refined oil verses another makes little difference. I'll take the major health benefits I get from limiting my intake of refined oils, but don't see any value in bothering with the clinically insignificant, and possibly statistically insignificant, benefits of only eating the less tasty refined oils, when I do eat them.