Diets very high in pufas (polyunsaturates) are not beneficial to heart health or longevity. Flora? No thanks!
Here's a chart. The beige & grey bars represent pufas (omega-6 & omega-3).
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| Comparison of dietary fats |
Bearing in mind the information in the video, plus the information in Fats: Spawn of Satan or Dogs' Doodads? , I use only fats from the bottom 6 for cooking (olive oil and butter, actually).
Flaxseed oil can be used as an omega-3 supplement for vegetarian/vegan women, as omega-3 pufas are as rare as rocking-horse poo in most foods (apart from oily fish).
Non-vegetarian/vegan people can get their long-chain omega-3 pufas (EPA & DHA) from oily fish. As vegetarian/vegan men barely produce any DHA from the omega-3 in flaxseed oil, they should get it from algal DHA supplements. See Extremely Limited Synthesis of Long Chain Polyunsaturates in Adults: Implications for their Dietary Essentiality and use as Supplements.
2 comments:
Seen the video before. Like it generally, if also for the fact that is can admit that low-fat diets generally have existed in traditional and on-going populations without yielding negative results. In other words, eat natural sources of fats from animals, seafood or tropical foods. Alternatively, defer to an actual low-fat diet as opposed to this 30% S.A.D. nonsense with industrially strained PUFAs.
Very nice chart. A substantial part of the SaFA in butter is MCT and butyrate. I suspect that if you removed these from the equation the MUFA/SaFA ratio would be more like that of tallow.
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