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>>4533517

That's a great chart.. thanks for sharing.

What it doesn't mention is the breakdown of the types of saturated fatty acids in each form of oil.

For instance.. coconut saturated fat is mostly lauric acid, while palm would be palmitic. It has yet to be definitively proven that lauric is not as bad for you as palmitic and myristic fatty acids.. but there is a lot of speculation. palmitic and myristic have been found to be in the same evidence category for cardiovascular disease as transfats (hydrogenated oils). the speculation is that coconut oil, with it's mostly lauric content isn't as bad. There are millions of island people in the phillipines that eat a lot of coconut oil.. and they don't seem to suffer the same CVD risk as most other peoples that eat a lot of sat fat. the jury is still out on whether this is life style induced or diet induced.

in short.. it's a great chart.. but just because there is a huge red bar of sat fat content, doesn't mean all those oils have the same health benefits/deficits.