Eat Fat to Burn Fat

Eat Fat to Burn Fat

Americans have been following low-fat or no-fat diets for the past half-century, and it's funny how we've become bigger and less healthy as a nation. Who said low-fat diets were good for you? And more significantly, what gives with the idea that cutting out fat will make you slimmer?

I will try my best to keep things simple and straightforward so that everyone can comprehend them, because much of what you read or hear is difficult, confusing, and contradicting.

How do I even begin? Well, I looked into this, and there doesn't seem to be any evidence that cutting back on fat can help you stay slim. Additionally, I have uncovered other instances that completely disprove this notion. As an example, despite having far lower rates of obesity and disease and illness, the French consume far more fat than Americans do.

The Alaskan Eskimo is another example. Until they start eating like Americans, they had one of the world's lowest rates of heart disease, while getting as much as 70% of their calories from fat (fish and whale blubber).

Here are a few reasons why the "low fat diet" is making us obese and killing people at an alarming rate before I give you more examples.

Are you surprised by that? My friend, I have some shocking news if that's the case.

Indeed, I will provide a few of reasons:

Reducing fat intake necessitates increasing carbohydrate consumption, which most people do—but oftentimes with unhealthy carbs!

When you swap out dietary fat for carbohydrates, which the body burns more quickly, you run the risk of wasting muscle tissue, and throw your hormones and metabolism into a loop due to the erratic nature of your energy levels (blood sugar).

An excellent and reliable source of energy is dietary fat. So, make sure you're eating enough of the correct kinds of fats if you want to feel great all day long. Later on in this piece, I will discuss which varieties are good for you and which ones you should exclude out of your diet.

Even at its healthiest, the human body need fat for basic functions.

The synthesis of hormones requires a specific amount of fat. A malfunctioning metabolism is a sign of an imbalance in hormone production. Your capacity to gain and keep muscle mass, which accounts for a significant amount of your metabolic rate, is one of many bodily processes regulated by hormones. A low-fat or no-fat diet makes it difficult to gain and keep muscle because, in a nutshell, muscle uses calories continuously.

Take a look at these facts:

From 14% in 1960 to over 22% in 1980, the percentage of Americans obese rose dramatically.

Over the course of its ten-year duration, the Harvard Nurses' Health Study discovered that low-fat diets did not reduce the risk of heart disease. The study also revealed that saturated fat was not as awful as previously thought, and that consuming too little of it was just as dangerous.

You may find additional information regarding the link between dietary fat and health in the following excellent sources:

Nutrition X, available at http://www.gunnarlindgren.com.pdf

Here is the link to the article: http://health.discovery.com/diseasesandcond/encyclopedia/1898.html.

At http://www.drlam.com/A3R_brief_in_doc_format/2002-No3-FatandCholesterol.cfm, users can find more information.

To wrap things up, then...

A low-fat diet will not help you lose weight or maintain your health. If you knew the reality about dietary fats, you wouldn't be able to... Please conduct some research if you have any questions or concerns; you will be astounded by the answers you uncover. While we wait, go ahead and have some good fats!

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