^ I'm not aware of any need for trans fats, I'm only aware of the fact that small doses of them are unavoidable.
Olive oil, avocado and almonds for me
Edit : Peanut butter as well. Mmmmm
^^ good info, and everything you need to know, tbh.
Are all the marg spreads you get in AU made with hydrogenated stuff?
I buy one made from sunflower oil with no dairy, so it has a negligible amount of trans fats.
yes, naturally occurring trans fats in fresh animal foods are ok in moderation.
it's the hydrogenated trans fats that are made by chemists that are bad for you. these are totally avoidable and should be.
you need a balance of mono, poly and saturated fats (of which naturally occurring trans form a part).
Essential fatty acids are most important as our bodies don't produce these ... ie mainly Omega 3 and Omega 6 in a good ratio - best sources are oily/cold water fish. Veg sources like flax and walnuts also good but fish is better for absorption etc.
Generally speaking for avoidance is to avoid:
- processed foods (mostly produced with hydrogenated vegetable oils and tallows ie bad trans fats) - this includes margarines
- vegetable oils high in omega 6 EFAs as these can throw the balance out for your EFAs. This includes canola, rapeseed, sunflower, safflower, corn, rice bran oil etc.
To have:
Olive oil is good, fresh butter is good - organic, grass fed better, coconut oil, avocadoes, nuts and peanuts, etc.
Lard and animal fats are good but if you want some real CLA content, try to buy organic meat from grass fed animals as the CLA content is much higher, plus eggs, dairy.
Most importantly, you don't need a lot, although how much you need in your daily requirement also depends on the type of diet you are following (eg more fat in keto/low carb etc).
Don't feel guilty about eating the chicken
Food being organic has no effect on how good or bad it is for you.
Organic is just a marketing gimmick.
Thats some really good info there CCM. What sort of cooking oil do you use? I prefer olive oil, but am wary that at high temps, the fatty acids in the oil start to breakdown and the quality of nutrition start to suffer.
So I recently started using rice bran oil but if these can throw the balance off my EFA's then I'll be looking for an alternative.
Coconut oil is great for some foods but the flavour tends to out some people off that I am cooking for (not me though, I love the stuff).
Hmm, interesting. You learn something new every day-and-a-half.The studies, as always, are contentious... but the trans fats found in milk, butter, yogurt, and so forth -- the unavoidable types, as you pointed out -- are known as vaccenic acid, an omega-7 fatty acid. There have been studies that say it's anti-carcinogenic, that it helps lower bad cholesterol, that it's good for the brain, etc.
Non-essential, just like omega-9s, but I'm not aware of the reasoning... I know n-9s can be created within the body, perhaps the same is true of n-7s.
yes you didI didn't say it made a difference. But animal fat from grass fed animals does make a difference and it's most often occurring from organic producers.
To have:
Olive oil is good, fresh butter is good - organic, grass fed better, coconut oil, avocadoes, nuts and peanuts, etc.
Lard and animal fats are good but if you want some real CLA content, try to buy organic meat from grass fed animals as the CLA content is much higher, plus eggs, dairy.
But you are also somewhat incorrect. It can make a difference in some foods. A good example is berries. Berries absorb and retain chemicals from "industrial farming" techniques much more than other fruits etc. So it's not that they are nutritious because of what they contain more of but of what they do not contain.
it's easy to see everything in black and white but in fact, farming practices are more complex than that.
Look it up. Lol. I don't need to look up how farming is done here. I just opened up the gate to let my 500 cows onto a fresh paddok of grass and next go check on my 300 young stock also on grass and no I'm not an organic farm because its bullshit.for pity's sake, Bazza, I did not feckin' confuse them - I said ORGANIC GRASS FED.
you'd be hard pressed to find grass fed without it being organic here in Oz.
not confusion. they generally go together by virtue of coincidence of farming practice. look it up.
not bothering to argue with you.
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