| Yes indeed almost 100% is an exaggeration, nuts are in general mostly fat, typically 70% to 80%. I think they are an awesome food by the way, shown to be very healthy, unlike oil. Its very different eating nuts from eating oil, because nuts are whole foods, you are getting a lot more than the fat when you eat a nut, as you mention. But they are to be eaten in moderation, not by the bags. The quote about olive oil I heard in one of Dr McDougall videos on oil on YouTube, although which video I cannot tell. Probably in this video he will talk about it, it's his longest video on oil - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptF0KuF8xHU&t=74s Anyway, my bottom line is that oil is not a health food, unlike popular belief. Reasons being: it's almost only liquid fat with little nutritional content (those vitamins can be easily obtained elsewhere), and it's the number one source of hidden calories in food and one of the multiple causes for the obesity epidemic in the west. Easting olives is healthy, but eating olive oil is not. Eating an extract of a food is very different from eating the whole food. |