healthy fats Vs animal fats. the daily intake of fat.

[Too-$mall]

What are my smart fat percentages?

i figure something like this

Animal fat: 20%
Healthy fat: 80%

anybody care to enlighten and get technical? I've been eating tons of healthy fats and it's gotten easy for me to get just about all my fat from healthy sources.

Mainly chia, ahi tuna(raw fish,) and ground flax.

Unhealthy fats are easy.

[JaneDoe]

Fats from animal sources are not counted, except in a diet for cutting. It is much easier to count only healthy fats: extra virgin olive oil, nuts, peanut butter, flaxseed etc.

[Windex]

Balance and moderation comrad

[GearHeaded]

its a misnomer to say
"healthy fats vs animal fats"

that falsely assumes that animal fats are unhealthy , which is not true at all. animal fats are critical and totally healthy.
actually some of the most toxic unhealthy fats there are are non animal fats (vegetable oils, trans fat, etc)

a serving of steak is going to contain saturated fat, polysaturated, monounsaturated .. and a good amount of omega 3.
nothing unhealthy about the fat in a steak compared to the fat in olive oil.


having said that ,, depending on your diets protein sources, adding in "healthy fats" from olive oil, avocado etc. may be beneficial.
if all you ate was lean chicken breast for your protein, you would end up malnourished so you need to add extra fat sources. however if your eating salmon and steak, your getting some pretty healthy fats in and don't need to add much extra.

[Beetlegeuse]

its a misnomer to say
"healthy fats vs animal fats"

that falsely assumes that animal fats are unhealthy , which is not true at all. animal fats are critical and totally healthy. ...

+1


Everything in moderation. Water will kill you deader than 4 o'clock if you drink too much of it.



There's also a misconception that we live longer now than ever before. Our life expectancy is longer because fewer of us die prematurely (from accidents or preventable disease, and 'treatable' conditions like diabetes) and more of us are living long enough for the frailties of old age to kill us. But human life span has not changed appreciably. So far as we can tell with a reasonable degree of certainty, people have always lived 70-80 years before their body turns on itself and the old age death spiral begins. And for most of the 200,000 years that modern man has been around, we ate whatever was available. And if there was more than enough to go around, we ate more of whatever it was that tasted best. No veganism, no gluten-free, no clean diet, no South Beach, no Atkins. Just filling the hole in your belly.

S'all good, man.

[GearHeaded]

+1


Everything in moderation. Water will kill you deader than 4 o'clock if you drink too much of it.



There's also a misconception that we live longer now than ever before. Our life expectancy is longer because fewer of us die prematurely (from accidents or preventable disease, and 'treatable' conditions like diabetes) and more of us are living long enough for the frailties of old age to kill us. But human life span has not changed appreciably. So far as we can tell with a reasonable degree of certainty, people have always lived 70-80 years before their body turns on itself and the old age death spiral begins. And for most of the 200,000 years that modern man has been around, we ate whatever was available. And if there was more than enough to go around, we ate more of whatever it was that tasted best. No veganism, no gluten-free, no clean diet, no South Beach, no Atkins. Just filling the hole in your belly.

S'all good, man.

yep

Psalm 90
The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

it was true 3000 years ago and still holds true today

[Too-$mall]

Beautiful quote "Psalm 90
The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away."

Beetle, why choose that name and avatar? That movie happens to be one of my favorite movies. like of all time. I've seen it probably more that 50 times.

[Beetlegeuse]

...Beetle, why choose that name and avatar? That movie happens to be one of my favorite movies. like of all time. I've seen it probably more that 50 times.

Just a whim. Looking for something ... novel. S'why I mispelt it, not like the film (Beetlejuice) or the star (Betelgeuse). But Keaton's performance was extraordinary. Then again, Tim Burton tends to bring that extra ... something ... out in actors.

An old paramour of mine had worked with Keaton waiting tables in a restaurant (a high-end Italian place, IIRC) before he caught his break in acting, when he still went by his birth name, Michael Douglas. She said it was the sort of place where staff were expected to be dignified and unobtrusive but he was jocular and engaging (probably not unlike the character in the film). Which annoyed some customers (who'd got one of his tables by luck of the draw) and got him fired about once a month. But other customers adored him and wouldn't accept any other waiter. Before they would make a reservation they'd ask if Michael was on duty on that evening, then ask to be penciled on at one of his tables. So he always got hired back in a day or two.

[Too-$mall]

guess he was just lucky and talented

[The road]

its a misnomer to say
"healthy fats vs animal fats"

that falsely assumes that animal fats are unhealthy , which is not true at all. animal fats are critical and totally healthy.
actually some of the most toxic unhealthy fats there are are non animal fats (vegetable oils, trans fat, etc)

a serving of steak is going to contain saturated fat, polysaturated, monounsaturated .. and a good amount of omega 3.
nothing unhealthy about the fat in a steak compared to the fat in olive oil.


having said that ,, depending on your diets protein sources, adding in "healthy fats" from olive oil, avocado etc. may be beneficial.
if all you ate was lean chicken breast for your protein, you would end up malnourished so you need to add extra fat sources. however if your eating salmon and steak, your getting some pretty healthy fats in and don't need to add much extra.

+1


Everything in moderation. Water will kill you deader than 4 o'clock if you drink too much of it.



There's also a misconception that we live longer now than ever before. Our life expectancy is longer because fewer of us die prematurely (from accidents or preventable disease, and 'treatable' conditions like diabetes) and more of us are living long enough for the frailties of old age to kill us. But human life span has not changed appreciably. So far as we can tell with a reasonable degree of certainty, people have always lived 70-80 years before their body turns on itself and the old age death spiral begins. And for most of the 200,000 years that modern man has been around, we ate whatever was available. And if there was more than enough to go around, we ate more of whatever it was that tasted best. No veganism, no gluten-free, no clean diet, no South Beach, no Atkins. Just filling the hole in your belly.

S'all good, man.

Couple of really great points

[C27H40O3]

yep

Psalm 90
The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

it was true 3000 years ago and still holds true today

My sixth grade teacher said something I have always thought about in the ensuing 45 or so years. She was a biology researcher before she was a teacher. She said she had a theory that old age was a disease, or syndrome of diseases, that only affects old people. If we could turn off the signal for the organs to shut down when they get old, folks could go on living.

These days, we can flip switches, so to speak, so maybe one day they could flip the switch that causes organs to age and shut down.