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Thank you very much!
Dang, that means a lot, thank you Jon.
You really did your homework putting that all together! I sent it to my girlfriend who just can't seem to grasp my Ray Peat diet. Thanks for sharing! I am gonna keep that one too ?
Agree. I stopped worrying about PUFA from foods like eggs, milk and shellfish. It just makes the rest of the diet too restrictive trying to get under the magical 4g of PUFA per day and the other benefits of those foods (for me) outweigh any costs of the PUFAs they contain. Individual balance is key, with everyone’s sweet spot for most foods and nutrients likely quite different.
Awesome! Thank you! I'm hoping that letting people look at it from a different perspective will shake them out of these nonsense beliefs!
Exactly! When margarine was popular, and touted as being better than butter, I just could not wrap my head around how anybody could believe that! I kept saying how is man-made better than "God made"? I stayed in my lane eating my sticks of butter, all the while getting stern warnings of my future peril from the margarine eaters, and you know what? They all look their age now or worse with all kinds of issues. Not just from margarine, but from the whole nasty lot of it, with Heart Beat mayonnaise, Egg Beaters (no yolks), artificial sweeteners and such. So I love your article proving "God-made" isn't wrong. Again well done!
Haha yep, I wouldn't think nature would have made that big of a mistake. And ugh margarine... thank God I never fell for it. Actually I might have for a brief time now that I think of it ? ***t oh well. But yeah, trends and fads will come and go, and from here on out I'll just be sticking to what makes sense to me.
That made me laugh!
i thought for a long time which pufa foods i'm cutting out blindly by listening to peat, and really the only foods that i enjoy eating that have pufas is peanut butter and bacon. besides these two, i can't think of another high pufa food that i enjoy eating. i don't like salmon, tuna, seeds, all nuts besides peanut butter, all vegetable oils have no real taste, and so every food made with vegetable oils taste better with buttter. so i don't see cutting pufas as extreme really, considering bacon and peanut butter are the only high pufa foods that taste good (to me). peat reccomends foods like eggs, olive oil, shellfish, in normal amounts, so i don't include those
Maybe it isn't the PUFA's in peanutbutter that you are liking, but rather all that "Peaty" sugar and salt, because peanuts are nowhere as good as peanut butter! As for the bacon, well it's bacon, who can argue that one ?
in what situation does a pufa play a positive role in the body? considering all the downsides, there has to be certain upsides your thinking of that would contradict the idea that it's toxic at any amount. i agree a food with pufa can have a net positive effect, because of calories, nutrition, etc, but would that food be better off if it didn't have any pufa? probably. and also even ray admits there are pufas that are good, like omega 9, CLAs, etc. i think people should be more specific when they talk about toxic pufa as DHA, EPA, and linoleic acid. of these 3 DHA is the only one that I would consider slightly beneficial in small amounts, so i do disagree with ray on that
I see your point, but is it safe to say that one side might be correct and the other is not? From the info I’ve gathered, evidence I’ve seen, personal experience... this is the basket I’ll be putting my eggs in, so to speak. There is a truth and everything in moderation doesn’t mean much to me... poison ivy or arsenic in moderation isn’t a good idea, for example. I know that’s extreme but I’m just trying to make a point.
So it’s not possible that one side MIGHT be correct and the other side isn’t? So is everything is just relative and there is no such thing as truth?
