I was looking some more at the East African Paleo diet paper. Specifically, I was looking at the ratios of saturated fat, monounsaturated fat, and polyunsaturated fat.
The paper presents various models, but if you take the “median of the medians”, then you get the following percentage of total calories going to each category:
- Saturated fat – 11.7%
- Monounsaturated fat – 12.1%
- Polyunsaturated fat – 11.9%
So roughly you have a ratio of 1:1:1 for saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fat. In more general terms, you have a ratio of 2:1 for unsaturated to saturated fat.
Also, the omega-3/omega-6 ratio was roughly 1:1.
I will refer to these ratios in upcoming posts.