Are there good fats and bad fats for cancer patients?
We have inappropriately lumped together all saturated fats as bad fats and all unsaturated fats as good fats. The classification of good and bad fats was developed from a population study where people from different places were compared. One place had increasing incidence of heart attacks and the other place had low incidence of heart attacks. When they looked at the diet of the people, the people living in a place where they had increasing incidence of heart attacks were having more saturated fats in their diet, whereas, the people living in a place where they had low incidence of heart attacks were having more unsaturated fats in their diet. The people with increasing incidence of heart attack were eating more saturated fats because they were eating more meat and animal products. The people with low incidence of heart attack were eating more unsaturated fats because they were eating more vegetables and plant foods. Since the cooking oil industry was producing oil from coconut that co
