On 1/27/2012 12:31 AM, Bryan wrote:

> It amazes me how much real research there is on fats, and how clueless
> most people who write shit are.
> Olive oil is extremely good. Hazelnut, pecan, almond, avocado,
> hickory, and canola are also great--though I happen not to like the
> taste of canola. Sunflower oil is not, unless it is the newfangled
> high-oleic sunflower oil. Most common primarily saturated fats are
> fine, with the exception of those high in palmitic and myristic acids.
> Canola is a "newfangled" oil, bred to be high in oleic acid,
> essentially high oleic rapeseed

You missed a healthful one -- walnut oil. Can't cook with it though.