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I have healthy food rations (veggies, nuts, a little meat, beans, potatoes, eggs, etc.) but butter and oil seems to be a cheap way to get enough calories. I don't think any of the myths about consuming fat are true.
If you google "healthiest diet in the world" its basically a consensus that its the mediterranean diet which is actually high in saturated fat. They pour olive oil on everything. Also you may be interested to read how the sugar industry paid scientists to point blame at saturated fat in the 60s because everyone started realizing sugar was causing all the obesity and health problems. And all the studies that show people who eat high saturated fat have higher rates of heart disease took samples of people who eat the standard American diet, which also consumes cokes and potato chips and seed oils, and ppl in the USA who eat high fat also eat even more sugar. Anytime they've sampled people who ate a HEALTHY high fat diet without sugar and low carbs there is no increase in heart disease or cancer, and its actually the opposite.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html
Btw make sure you use extra virgin olive oil, or coconut oil, or butter to add calories dont use seed oils or vegetable oils theyre very bad for you.
Significant amounts of "extra virgin olive oil" found in the US (idk about other countries or where OP is from) are contaminated with seed oils and fail to meet international standards for EVO. Stick to coconut milk/butter
Btw Mediterranean diets are also not low carb, I don't think sugar is the definitive "problem" of the obesity epidemic. It's a combination of vegetable oils, new marketing strategies, fast food, sugar, more sedentary lifestyle etc.
If its labeled just "olive oil" its loaded with crap. If its labeled "extra virgin olive oil" by law it is not supposed to. There's rumors that you can put it in the refridgerator and see if it solidifies to make sure your extra virgin olive oil is real. I get the california brand at walmart. Its expensive but is 100% real.
I also believe that keto diet is better than a mediterranean diet but I point that they choose mediterranean diet to show the hypocrisy in the medical community when it comes to saturated fat.
Thanks for the information on EVO. Coconut oil is cheaper and covers more surface area per ounce so I will stick with that but I get that EVO has its specific culinary uses and whatever
The reason the Mediterranean diet is used as an example of health is because people living there statistically have increased longevity. I don't know about "keto" as far as evidence goes but it's well demonstrated that countries where the longevity is greater than average typically eat a diet that is at least moderate carbohydrate, not low. Sat fat hypothesis is BS so is the sugar hypothesis IMO.
I love coconut oil and MCT oil.
As far as I know theres no big society that is keto because its so inefficient. If everyone was keto you'd have to change the whole food supply chain and have to probably like quadruple the amount of farmed animals. Wheat and rice is so efficient because it can feed millions of people cheaply.
You may not agree but I think even if scientists at the FDA and AHA knew that high saturated fat was healthy they wouldnt want to push it too much because if everyone starts eating more saturated fat that causes more carbon to enter the atmosphere.
They say one cow pollutes more than one car . Its interesting that they say high saturated fat foods are healthy as long as its not an animal product! Animal saturated fat is bad. But olive oil and peanuts are good.
When I was younger I had a hard time keeping weight on, and I still do but not to the same extent back then, so I would have milkshakes with weight gainer powder before bed each night. Seemed to work, though the powder can be expensive.