I'm sure you are responding with good intentions, that some 'healthy' fats are needed in a healthy diet.
The demonization of fat is wrong.
But Also
Eating 5lbs of Ribs every day and weighing 300 lbs is not healthy.
Same with salt.
The 'healthy' amount of salt is a U curve. You can have too little, and too much.
It's just in the typical American diet, there is so much Fat and so much Salt, that most people area already at the extreme of the U curve and should probably start cutting back.
> Eating 5lbs of Ribs every day and weighing 300 lbs is not healthy.
If you started at normal weight and ate 5lbs of ribs (or, till satiety) every day, with as much butter as you'd like, but ZERO carbs or artificial sweeteners, you'd never gain weight, much less get to 300 lbs. That's my point.
But don't believe me - this experiment has been done many times.
You can eat vegetables until satiety and also not gain weight.
Banting seems to be about non-processed whole foods. So guess I'm doing that.
My point was more, there is a group that goes 'zero carb' and eat really unhealthily. They take it as a license to pile on the ribs. Not that 'zero carb' by itself is unhealthy.
You'll probably say cholesterol is also ok. But plaque buildup does lead to hearth attack's.
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