Okay, folks, is there a general consensus here? Just when I think I have a handle and understanding on my fat and oil consumption, a thread like this comes along and makes me doubt how I'm eating. Not too long ago, one of the threads here asked if olive oil was truly healthy, and that made me wonder as well.
This is how I've been eating for the past 10 years or so. Anyone care to comment if I'm on the right track?
For oils, all I use are olive oil and coconut oil. I cook with olive oil on low-to-medium heat (pretty much to grease the pan so nothing sticks) and I'll drizzle my salads for lunch each day with olive oil. I'll also drizzle Carlson's Lemon-Flavored Fish Oil on my salad daily as well. My salads also have ground flax meal in them and walnut bits too. For coconut oil, I make a batch of dark chocolate/oats/wild blueberry bits/almond butter/flax seeds/cinnamon/coconut oil cookies every other week or so for a healthy snack to grab.
We eat fish (mostly cod, sometimes salmon) once each week for dinner. I also take two fish oil caps before bed most week nights.
I've almost turned eating O6s from oils into a taboo at my house. When I shop I consciously avoid anything with canola, soybean, sunflower, safflower, corn, peanut or cottonseed oil. But, to be fair, the oat bran bread I buy has soybean oil, so I'm not complete clear of it.
As far as saturated fat goes, I'm not shy about eating it. All I buy is organic whole milk and usually, it's the grass milk variety, and then grass-fed butter. I drink milk daily and use butter a few days a week. And I eat plenty of eggs too. A co-worker raises chickens at her place and sell me the eggs for cheap. She says it's organic natural feed, but I'm not sure if that includes organic soy. As a rule, I try to keep soy out of my diet as a 41-year-old male.
The frustrating part is this: My girlfriend constantly rags on me for how much fat I eat and tells me I'll have heart disease in the future. I feel like I'm doing the right things by getting olive oil, flax seeds, fish oil and some saturated fats in my diet, plus keeping trans fats (I avoid deep fried foods) and vegetable oils to an absolute minimum. I watch my carb intake and tend to avoid simple sugars and refined foods, too. Yet here she is eating a lot of boxed/refined foods and using salad dressing (main ingredient seems to be soybean oil) like it's going out of style. She has a sweet tooth and likes a can of Coke a day, too. I just keep quiet and listen to her bullshit but again, I see threads like this and start to question if what I'm doing is right or healthy.
Any feedback is appreciated, guys!
LongeCity
