[joshvm]

No mention of canola (rape) oil? Basically lower saturated fat than olive oil and with a pretty high smoke point. I use it for general cooking and use olive oil as flavour enhance for e.g. salads.

There's rising evidence that supplements are bunk and/or unnecessary. It's almost as bad as the anti-oxidant nonsense. Recently it was discovered that fish oil is likely to be bullshit too, based on poor research and a tiny, biased subject pool. Meta analysis has implied that vitamin supplements don't do anything for people.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/dec/17/vitamin-...

The nutrient that folks are (usually) most deficient in is calcium, it's quite hard to find in food. The only place you can get it easily in significant quantities is milk and bones. People on poor diets are typically lacking in staples like Vit B, Vit C, etc but that's usually because they don't eat enough vegetables. Just increase your intake of 'super' greens like Brocolli, Spinach and Kale and you'll smash your RDA easily.

People fail at dieting because they cheat or they're not willing to give up sugar in lieu of sweeteners. Ever look at a pack of biscuits? Each one nullifies about 20 minutes of exercise.

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Canola oil does have a decent smoke point, but I'd never recommend it over ghee on LCHF, because ghee has a higher smoke point, better taste, fairly interesting nutritional properties, and more saturated fat.

Agreed on the supplements; I've been taking the ones I've been taking to hedge my bets, but I wouldn't advise anyone else to take any without a specific purpose (unless they really wanted to of their own accord).