mattnewport comments on Rational Health Optimization - Less Wrong

20 Post author: jacob_cannell 18 September 2010 07:47PM

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Comment author: mattnewport 23 September 2010 10:45:45PM 0 points [-]

I'd definitely lump them together, ignore any distinctions, and strongly recommend avoiding all of them.

I mostly do but I'll sometimes use olive oil for salad dressings or low temperature sauteing and coconut oil for higher temperature frying. I prefer butter or lard for low / high temperature frying respectively though.

Effects of unrefined sugar differ somewhat from effects of refined sugar too - still, the only sensible thing is to cut both.

Yeah, sugar's pretty bad in most of its forms. I don't worry too much about sugar intake in the form of raw fruits and berries (which I eat a lot of) though.

Comment author: taw 25 September 2010 01:45:49AM 1 point [-]
Comment author: taw 23 September 2010 11:07:09PM 1 point [-]

I mostly do but I'll sometimes use olive oil for salad dressings or low temperature sauteing and coconut oil for higher temperature frying. I prefer butter or lard for low / high temperature frying respectively though.

I doubt these sane uses would account for even 20% of amount of vegetable oil people consume these days. And there's nothing terribly wrong with using small amounts of sugar of any kind - it's the ridiculous amounts of it that are the main issue.