These nutrient-rich traditional fats have nourished healthy population groups for thousands of years:
- Butter
- Beef and lamb tallow
- Lard
- Chicken, goose and duck fat
- Coconut, palm and sesame oils
- Cold pressed olive oil
- Cold pressed flax oil
- Marine oils
These new-fangled fats can cause cancer, heart disease, immune system dysfunction, sterility, learning disabilities, growth problems and osteoporosis:
- All hydrogenated oils
- Soy, corn and safflower oils
- Cottonseed oil
- Canola oil
- All fats heated to very high temperatures in processing and frying
From Know Your Fats, westonaprice.org.
