Quote from killthesunshine:
Right. "Decrease dietary fat intake..."
The trend is for decreasing dietary fat not increasing fat as YOU claimed in a previous post.
YOUR own source says: :"Consume less than 10 percent of calories from saturated fatty acid..with most fats coming from sources of polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fatty acids"
"Population-based studies of American diets show that intake of saturated fat is more excessive than intake of trans fats and cholesterol. Therefore, it is most important for Americans to decrease their intake of saturated fat. However, intake of all three should be decreased to meet recommendations."
http://www.health.gov/DIETARYGUIDELINES/dga2005/document/html/chapter6.htm
The Mayo Clinic recommends NO more than 7% sat fat calories.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/healthy-diet/NU00200
The American Heart Assoc advises NO more than 7% too.
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=532
Those recommendations are made keeping in mind that people must change their present lifestyle to meet those new goals, and too severe a change will be discouraging to that end. So they slowly lower the guidelines over time to healthier levels.
YOU still have not answered the question: How much saturated fat do we need in our diet for gealth? ANSWER THE QUESTION!
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No. I say for a long time the recommendation from the science past is saturated fat is bad, decrease saturated fat, replace saturated fat with the hydrogenated oil. This to reduce heart disease.
So USA start to put hydrogenated oil in MANY food, and recommend to take away butter and coconut oil from the baked food, and the beef, pork.
Americans eat less of the saturated fat now, to replace with hydrogenated oil/man made, and americans eat less of the beef and pork. In this time MORE heart disease can be seen. Why?
The link I gave is only to show you what is recommend by USA ministry to Agriculture and ministry to Health. You ask for the link for the saturated fat guideline. I gave you the link from your government. This is not saying I agree with that link, I just show you what you ask for.
Ok, eat what you want, but I think you have saturated fat phobia because of your media. You think 0 grams of saturated fat is good, ok, be careful.