Eliminate the Fear of Fat
After many years of low-fat diets and calorie counting being the go-to weight loss solution, science is finally proving the opposite. As a society we’ve been programmed to avoid high fat consumption.
Take a stroll through your local grocery store and you'll see a multitude of products which claim to be a low-fat addition to a healthy diet.
We deprive ourselves into the suffering that low-fat diets ultimately create. Our bodies need fat, and there is ample evidence that a high fat, low carb diet is the optimal way to propel weight loss and regain good health.
But doesn’t saturated fat cause high cholesterol, high blood pressure, coronary artery disease and heart disease?
Nope, the myth has been busted and there is plenty of scientific evidence to back it up.
There’s no denying it anymore, saturated fat does not cause heart disease and never has.
A pivotal meta-analysis of more than 350,000 people tracked for 14 years, 11,000 of whom developed heart disease found no correlation between saturated fat intake and heart disease or stroke.
Another recent study which included 150 men and women of diverse backgrounds were designated to follow either a low fat diet or low carb diet without counting calories for one year.
The findings of the study were shocking to many as those on the low carb diet lost 8% more body fat and actually gained lean muscle mass without additional exercise. Those on the low fat diet lost less weight and lost muscle mass.
Fat Propaganda
The food pyramid has long been used as a guide to healthy eating. Recommended is a low fat diet with plenty of grains and carbohydrates.
The only thing the food pyramid got right is that we should be eating 5-9 servings of vegetables and fruit daily.
Conflicting research and opinions run rampant in the health world. Most nutritionists are taught to remain strictly in line with the food pyramid principles, even if plenty of studies point out quite the opposite.
Doctors, most who’ve perhaps taken 1 nutrition course in the 8 years of schooling, mostly adhere to the governments recommendations, but at what cost?
The fight against saturated fat began in the 1970’s when Ancel Keys “The Seven Countries“ study was published. Researchers found a correlation between saturated fat and heart disease when analyzing data from 12,000 men in seven countries.
