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High in Saturated Fat
- From Melanie Thomassian
By Melanie Thomassian - Dietitian
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Go on kill yourself!
I used to work in the catering industry using the oil drums for the fryers. I changed form Cocount to Nut oil and finally Vegetable oil which is the norm now in the UK catering industry.
We'd all be dead if we daily fried our food, hot chips and ate coconut cakes and products oozing with this cholestrol enhancer!
- ABUCAT
March 18, 2009 6:30PM
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the fats you get matter too!
while calorie intake to out take should be regarded you also must address the fact that the fat are transfered to energy much quicker which will cause the calories burned to rise quicker especially if used as a dietary supplement
- chewpacabra March 17, 2010 1:20AM
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