Palm Oil is higher in saturated fats than many of the other seed oils (canola etc) but lower than (dairy) butter

But the one macronutrient that a Diabetic can consume that doesn't move our blood sugar at all is "Fats"

So from a Diabetic, want to control blood sugar point of view, palm or coconut oil (the other popular one) do diddly to your blood sugar levels and in fact if mixed with carbs (really slather up a piece of toast (starches) with PB of any natural description and the fats in the peanut butter will slow down the uptake of the carbs - so all the starches will still get converted to blood sugar, but it will take "longer" (slowed down digesting the fat) so you won't "spike as high" but will be slightly elevated longer than if you had only consumed carbs

Now from a heart health perspective, Saturated Fats (most of them) are bad for the vascular system, increase the levels of bad cholesterol and are generally unhealthy

And since Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke are the Number 1 and 2 killers of Diabetics (statistically) maybe keeping SatFat levels down below the daily recommended levels are a good idea

The RDA for SatFat for (lower risk) of CVD is 20 grams a day and for (us) 13 grams a day is the recommended max to reduce/prevent Cardio Vascular Disease

If you are careful otherwise a tablespoon or two of Peanut Butter (with palm) would easily fit into your day

@A DiabetesTeam Member they were - in the early 1900's the "average person" needed upwards of 4500 calories a day to meet their metabolic needs

They walked everywhere, everything was manual labour - you chopped wood or shoveled coal, no smart thermostats that you set with your phone 😁

Nothing was processed, all food was fresh and homemade

When we moved to the cities, got lazy and sat around all day we continued to eat like we had a hard life and this is where we are today...

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@A DiabetesTeam Member I hope you are correct

Since I follow a high fat diet where Fat accounts for 60% of my daily calories

My sat fat intake is somewhat above the RDA of 20 grams (10% of a 2000 calorie diet) my sat fat target is 39 grams/day which is closer to 20% of my total calories

However, over half of my sat fat comes from Dairy which is a short chain sat fat and doesn't cause the problems like the long chain found in red meat

Our Grandparents should have all died young according to "prevailing wisdom" with them eating bacon/eggs for breakfast, cooking with lard or bacon fat, lots of red meat etc and somehow their rate of diabetes was only 2% (ours is 12%) their overweight/obesity rate was under 14%, now we are over 50% and while more died of heart disease it was due to lack of advanced medical care - the rate is up but we are better at keeping people alive today and have polylactic meds to manage BP and Cholesterol which help but also mask the size of the problem - we eat crap and we eat too much of it

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@ GrahamLamb maybe our grandparents were more physically active?