I'm not too familiar with it but I think it's also important to note that there is another kind of body type that pretty much subsists on fat instead of carbs and protein like most athletes. Swimmers in particular are known for consuming an awful lot of fat in their diets. These are the types of people who swim the english channel. As I understand it, fat is burned/used up more slowly in the body than the other main nutrients and so provides longer, more sustainable, energy, which is essential for long distance swimming. Also good insulation
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Originally Posted by liamona  Speaking of fat kids and fat in diet, recently a link to this Swedish study was posted in the Hyperlid blog. I don't know how good a study it is, but it concluded that
"Intake of saturated fat was negatively associated to anthropometry and children who consumed full fat milk regularly had a lower BMI compared to those who seldom or never drank milk"
and "Saturated fat and intake of full fat milk were inversely associated with BMI."
Here's a graph from the study:  |
This seems somewhat misleading as Milk has a lot of other stuff in it besides saturated fat like essential amino acids Why not just drink lowfat or better yet, skim milk -which has potassium!- and get the best of both worlds? Saturated fat is really bad for you. And you really don't need that much to begin with.