Dr. Mark Hyman
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So you can eat saturated fat, but you can't eat it with starch and sugar in your diet.
It can't eat it if you're eating that too, because then you get into real problems with your cholesterol and your heart disease risk and your diabetes risk.
So context matters.
What replaces it matters.
Food source matters.
Metabolic health matters.
Just remember, you cannot eat a lot of saturated fat if you are also eating a diet high in refined starches and sugars.
That's really key.
All right.
So.
What else?
Whole grains are recommended.
Pretty good.
I think it's important.
But previous guidelines were like, eat some whole grains, but it's okay if you eat half your diet in white flour.
Well, that's crazy.
So the fact that they recommend whole grains primarily is really important.
They didn't really address that some people even like...
whole grains may not be okay.
If you're diabetic, for example, you might do better without them.