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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.