instruction: hello doctor my husband has a heart condition that means his arteries build up a plaque at a much higher rate than normal he had to have a stent put in his heart and will be medicated for the rest of his life he has been told that it is vital he eats low fat and low cholesterol diet I cook for him and I am worried whether I feed him the wrong things I know that meat is not good for the heart so we limit it and always go for lean cuts but I am confused about the difference between animal based saturated fats and plant based saturated fats for example everyone raves about the health benefits of conut oil and conut milk but both are extremely high in saturated fat I googled this and find reports stating that it is a different kind of saturated fat and does not affect the heart badly but I do not know if this is true for someone like my husband is all saturated fat bad also is chicken really healthier meat than beef it seems to have a high cholesterol content so I do not know if he should be eating it any advice would be much appreciated he is currently rosuvastatin bystolic and aspirin
output: hi I understand your concern on the high fat diet and follow the mentioned points below just to make it easy we need some fat which is good and hel high density lipoprotein like almonds and walnuts are good as these are rich in omega and fatty acids similarly the fat we have in conut oil is different the fat in the chicken can be removed by removing the skin where as beef has inbuilt fat which cannot be removed easily hence we suggest to include fish and chicken avoiding beef considering fat we miss out on other nutrients too so it is advised to reduce the oil intake like healthy individuals can take half a liter of oil per month if you are two your cooking should be within liter of oil only conut oil is having saturated fat but it burns easily in high humidity areas if we live in high humidity area it is better to include conut oil to protect our joints and skin if we leave apart from high humidity area it is better to use refined oil