SunnyExpat
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It is worth a read. An open mind is needed and as to the amount of fats then "moderation" is wise. The Inuit people didn't know what "moderation" was and they thrived on it. Most now live in the cities deprived of their meat, riddled with modern diseases such as drugs, diabetes, heart problems, overweight etc etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_diet
A very interesting read indeed.
(I'm not entirely sure why you quoted it though)
as a newly diagnosed, the feel i have got for the forum is that, no matter what some people say, another will come along and argue against it, often in a defensive and/or confrontational way, and leave confusion and unpleasantness in their wake. I have some straightforward questions about fats:
do humans, or do they not, need saturated fats in their diet?
what is being defined as saturated fat?
what are the alternative safe fats I can eat?
thanks @peterhanna1 for starting this thread : )
Well from the about link, it appears the inuits thrived a diet split roughly
'50% of their calories from fat, 30-35% from protein and 15-20% of their calories from carbohydrates'
It moves on to suggest that the western diet is worse, as the inuits was mainly monounsaturated fat.
'It has been suggested that because the fats of the Inuit's wild-caught game are largely monounsaturated and rich in omega-3 fatty acids, the diet does not pose the same health risks as a typical Western high-fat diet'
But then it goes on to disagree with any evidence fats are healthy.
'However, actual evidence has shown that Inuit have a similar prevalence of coronary artery disease as non-Inuit populations and they have excessive mortality due to cerebrovascular strokes, with twice the risk to that of the North American population.[28][29] Indeed the cardiovascular risk of this diet is so severe that the addition of a more standard American diet has reduced the incidence of mortality in Inuit population.[30] Furthermore, fish oil supplement studies have failed to support claims of preventing heart attacks or strokes'
So make of that what you will with regard to fats, and types of fats.
The british heart foundation has a guide to fats
https://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/preventing-heart-disease/healthy-eating/fats-explained
To answer the question, do you need saturated fats though, I have never seen any study that shows saturated fats were necessary for life. A vegan diet is normally very low in saturated fat, which seems to bear out humans do not need saturated fats.
None of that will really make a great difference to my point of view though, I'm not vegan, and I'm certainly not inuit.
I'm just one person that like to keep my cholesterol where I like it to be, and I do that by eating food that works for me. Saturated fat doesn't for some, (myself included) whereas the alternatives appear to.