I primarily use olive and canola oil for cooking at home. I’m fairly confident that olive oil is a healthy choice, I’m a little less so for canola oil but it seems like the the best widely available option. I use butter for some recipes and I’ve been intending to experiment with lard but it’s not available where I usually do my grocery shopping.
Most vegetable derived oils are relatively recent additions to the human diet though and one of the principles of paleo type diets is to prefer foods closer to the hunter gatherer staples and to limit intake of foods that require agriculture, and especially of those that require industrial agriculture (a principle that would have led one to avoid trans-fats even before their negative health effects were studied). On that basis I’m inclined to favour animal derived fats until more conclusive evidence of the relative health implications is available.
Plus, I enjoy the flavour of fatty red meats so I will tend to err in that direction given inconclusive evidence on the nutritional science.
I primarily use olive and canola oil for cooking at home. I’m fairly confident that olive oil is a healthy choice, I’m a little less so for canola oil but it seems like the the best widely available option. I use butter for some recipes and I’ve been intending to experiment with lard but it’s not available where I usually do my grocery shopping.
Most vegetable derived oils are relatively recent additions to the human diet though and one of the principles of paleo type diets is to prefer foods closer to the hunter gatherer staples and to limit intake of foods that require agriculture, and especially of those that require industrial agriculture (a principle that would have led one to avoid trans-fats even before their negative health effects were studied). On that basis I’m inclined to favour animal derived fats until more conclusive evidence of the relative health implications is available.
Plus, I enjoy the flavour of fatty red meats so I will tend to err in that direction given inconclusive evidence on the nutritional science.