According to a study by doctors at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago, diets high in saturated fat may have a higher risk for Alzheimer’s:
People who consumed the most saturated fat — the kind of fat that comes from meat, poultry, dairy products and palm or coconut oils — had 2.3 times the risk of developing Alzheimer’s compared with those who consumed the lowest amount of saturated fats, the researchers said. […]
The news doesn’t bother me much, as I don’t have much saturated fat in my diet anyhow. Catfish, which I often eat for dinner, has 1g saturated fat (the remaining 3g fat are presumably good fat).
And, I’m not sure what kind of tuna goes into canned tuna, but it also is fairly low in saturated fat. I generally have tuna (and apples) for breakfast and lunch and, for whatever reason, I haven’t really tired of that over the past few months ;).
maybe the remaining 3g contains trans-fatty acids since the “must label them” rule only passed recently? notice that sometimes saturated + unsaturated doesn’t add up to match the total? … fish is no better … and did you see the official FDA recomendation that pregnant women simply avoid eating any seafood?