So, coconut oil is bad now?

You should moderate intake of saturated fats. No shit. This has been conventional wisdom for decades.

Anyway, I'm still baffled by the coconut oil hysteria that took off a few years ago. I got into a hilarious argument with the wife of a relative who was claiming that she was drinking a quarter cup a day during her pregnancy because it would guarantee that her kid had a higher IQ.

Seriously. This is DUH FUCKING UH.


Every single person I've known who tried the "bulletproof coffee" method of adding butter or coconut oil (either way high dose of saturated fat) to their coffee had high cholesterol within six months of doing that daily.


Coconut is fine, avocados are fine, salmon is fine. But you can't overdose oil in the diet and pretend it isn't a lipid and have no consequences to that ultra high fat diet you've imbalanced yourself into.
 
The bullshit with the fat and the heart diseases is based on a flawed / unscientific study

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/in-depth/fat-politics-nina-teicholz-seven-countries-study-dietary-policy/



That binary "it has no impact" statement is also a flawed interpretation.

It's more complex than the food industry would have you believe.

High carb high saturated fat diets definitely contribute to both high cholesterol and diabetes.
We literally feed mice high carb high fat diets to induce diabetes for research.

High carb diets also contribute to inflammation through hyperglycemia even if that has not progressed to metabolic disorder or type 2 diabetes.

High cholesterol ALONE isn't going to wreck your vascular system but high cholesterol + inflammation in the blood vessel walls (like from diabetes, hyperglycemia, or wear and tear with age) does contribute to atherosclerosis. The cholesterol adheres to vessel walls better when the walls are scarred by inflammation and no longer as smooth. The atherosclerosis then leads to other complications as it gets worse over time.


Ultimately, the chronic inflammation is a bigger contributing factor to cardiovascular disease than dietary cholesterol alone but it's still part of the equation. People have misinterpreted the realization that inflammation is one of the biggest pieces of the pie as meaning that dietary saturated fat and cholesterol intake are not part of the pie at all.
 
They're still playing "saturated fats will cause a heart attack" angle even though this has been disproved, debunked, and is now medical literature canon? Fuck this bullshit. Coconut oil is fine. All things in moderation.

As said in the post above, the inflammation is the problem, not the fat or carbs. They both have a role to play in inflammation of the CV system.
 
Ultimately, the chronic inflammation is a bigger contributing factor to cardiovascular disease than dietary cholesterol alone but it's still part of the equation. People have misinterpreted the realization that inflammation is one of the biggest pieces of the pie as meaning that dietary saturated fat and cholesterol intake are not part of the pie at all.

Yes except that things like high meat protein intake or elevated saturated fats increase inflammation markers. THat's where broscience goes wrong. cutting carbs and sugar is very good, but replacing those calories with massive amounts of meat protein is one step forward, one step backward.
 
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