I found early on in my weight loss 'program', I had to add a little more fat because I was hungry most of the time. I try to get the majority of fat from olive oil and nuts.
'Course my grandpa ate lard all of his life (he was never over weight). It killed him at the age of 94.
Then again, he was very active. Walked everywhere he went. Along with exercise, I believe genetics had something to do with it.
If saturated fat is the villain, lard is not much of a villain because it is less than 1/2 composed of saturated fatty acids. Olive oil contains about 70% oleic acid, the main monounsaturated FFA found in our diets. Lard is not that far behind at 44% oleic acid. Overall, lard has less than 50% saturated fat, and a 14% of lard is stearic acid, a saturated fatty acid which I believe even died in the wool lipophobes haven't been able to pin anything on.
My grandparents also lived on a farm in a border state, where everyone other than the barber and doctor did mixed farming, and often they did too. Cows, pigs, ducks, geese, fruit trees, strawberries, large vegetable garden, fish from the river down the hill.
The old man, known as "boss" was born during the civil war and lived until he was 84. The morning he died he milked, slopped the pigs, and repaired a gap in the milking shed.
Long life, went to a doctor once. He had an infected hand, and my dad (his SIL) loaded him into our car and took him to see a doctor where the hand was lanced and bound up.
I'd like to say he ate nothing but meat, but this would not be true. But he ate all the meat he could get his hands on, and all the fat too and pretty much anything else. And often his first bite before he went out to the farmyard was cornbread slathered in lard
Like bbbamI 's Granddad, he was on his feet from before sunup to after dark, except during the longest days of summer. He was getting well up in years by the time I was born, but I never saw him in a rocking chair and rarely in any other kind of chair other than at meals.
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