Dr Mercola's Nutritional Typing

 

Dr. Mercola is talking about good fats, versus bad ones.

Good: coconut oil (doesn't change into trans fats when you cook with it as most oils do, olive oil not good for heating at high temps either) or if you can manage it, coconut oil taken by the teaspoon raw, really good. Ghee also good for using in cooking & rice bran oil not bad either. Butter much, much healthier than margarine would you believe...it's a 'good' fat (but ghee removes the lactose from it for CF). Olive oil on salads or cold poured over hot veggies. Sesame oil strong, don't use too much, but it's a good fat. Sunflower can be used if not too high heat.

Bad: all margarines (they have some severe crap in all of them, as do any kind of 'spreads') All vegetable oils (not sure if that's what you mean by 'cooking oil'. Salad dressing spread, sorry, is also in this category...no goodness in them.

Hope this helps just a bit because you sure do help a lot of people yourself on this site. (And hope you feel better soon)

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Katy

I know all those things but can't afford them.  Ghee is out of the question because we are lactose intolerant and dairy allergic, and coconut oil is out of my price range altogether.  I used to buy olive oil of course, but now I am lucky if we can afford canola even (no one start, I know, but at least it's not soy or corn :-)).

I would rather have no fats than bad fats so I won't be running out and upping my intake of fats anyway.  I do yoghurt occassionally for probiotics (usually the greek style without flavouring and I mix with home canned blackberries) but right now that's rare too.

I would like to think these things are just for a season, but it's been a very long season .....

thanks for taking the time to remind me what Dr. M was meaning in his program.  All these are great if one has a real income .... sigh.