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Yup, thats why some people have started to use olive and the new craze: coconut oil. Albeit, there are other reasons but this is one of them. Most vegetable o
by infinitone 11y ago
Yup, thats why some people have started to use olive and the new craze: coconut oil. Albeit, there are other reasons but this is one of them. Most vegetable oils except palm, olive and coconut oil are high in PUFAs.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoIronically(?) palm and coconut oils are largely cholesterol which was demonized until recently.
- nate_meurer 11y agoThere is no cholesterol in any vegetable oil. Cholesterol is strictly of animal origin.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoSorry, I got that wrong. Its got record levels of lauric acid, which raises blood cholesterol in humans.
- nate_meurer 11y agoTrue, but lauric acid raises HDL much more than LDL, resulting in a ratio that's actually thought to lead to better cardiovascular health. Clinical evidence for this is a bit lacking, but I've never heard it seriously suggested that coconut oil is bad for the heart. Palm oil on the other hand is mostly made of palmitic and oleic acids, which are associated with less favorable HDL/LDL ratios, but here again the clinical evidence is thin. Generally, the association between vegetable fats and heart disease is tenuous and confounded by other more significant dietary variables.