Saturated fats

[rogerzilla]

Apparently a spag bolog and two slices of buttered toast puts you over your daily allowance.

We're all doomed, aren't we?  Get drinking the red wine.

BBC NEWS | Health | Watchdog warning on saturated fat

[rafletcher]

Not a prob unless yr a couch 'tato like me (at the moment).  Been watching the Victorian Farm on BBC2, and the comments from that were that hard physical labour had you craving fatty foods.

[noisycrank]

Not a prob unless yr a couch 'tato like me (at the moment).  Been watching the Victorian Farm on BBC2, and the comments from that were that hard physical labour had you craving fatty foods.

You are not alone quote from the bbc article

"Nearly half (48%) thought that there was no need to worry about how much saturated fat they ate if, for example, they took regular exercise, were not overweight or ate lots of fruit and vegetables."

[rogerzilla]

Worryingly, the Old El Paso tortillas we had tonight contain hydrogenated vegetable oil  - trans-fats being even worse.

Mind you, we stuffed ourselves with trans-fats in the 1970s and 1980s, when "polyunsaturated" was the Elixir Of Life, and my cholesterol levels have always come back as "desirable".