>>I love olive oil, but sunflower, canola, and cottonseed are reasonable alternatives.

On the same page with you on olive oil, but cottonseed not so much. Consider that cotton is not typically grown as a food crop so a farmer isn't subject to the same regulations.

After years of congratulating myself that my family never switched to margarine back during the saturated-fat-is-deadly panic as we now know there's little connection between dietary saturated fats and serum lipids, I'm a bit chagrined to learn that there *does* seem to be a connection between dietary saturated fats and insulin resistance (and so eventual T2DM) - at least for some people. Sigh. At least I 'missed out' on the trans fats used in margarines up until a decade or so ago - so there's that.