On 29/04/2012 10:57 PM, Bryan wrote:
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>> Since my heart problem last year I have had to eat more dairy, but less
>> fat.
>
> Less dairy fat is smart, but many fats are heart healthy.

It is all; very confusing to me. I never used to use much milk. I don't
drink it, just a little on my cereal and in my morning latte. The rest
of the time I drink my coffee black. I liked 3.25% homo but was told to
use skim or 1%. I questioned that. My brother, who had a heart attack,
drinks more than a litre of 1% per day. I use less than 2 litres per
week, which is a lot less dairy fat than he gets with his one plus per day.





> My father was told to eat trans-fat margarine instead of butter in the
> 1960s, after his first heart attack. He was told to avoid egg yolk.
> He was told to avoid pork, even though beef fat is worse than pork
> fat. He was never advised to eat more almonds. His cardiologist
> recommended corn oil rather than olive oil. "High in polyunsaturates"
> was considered to be healthful. He died younger than his mother, and
> way younger than his grandmother, after multiple bypasses. He got bad
> advice, but it was the standard advice. I'm not saying that you
> should trust the advice of some blue-haired punkrocker on the internet
> more than you trust a cardiologist, but that you should do the
> research yourself rather than trust either.

There is a lot of contradictory advice out there. The dietitian told me
to avoid all transfats. She thinks they are basically poison.