Busted – The Low Fat Diet Myth

If you’re looking for a healthy low fat diet, don’t waste any more of your time It turns out that a low fat food diet isn’t so great after all.  It fact, is becoming increasingly clear that a low fat diet is in fact, BAD NEWS.  In reality, your body needs fats in your food. 

Some of the necessary functions of fat include:

• Allowing your body to absorb the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K, thus preventing deficiencies of these vitamins.
• Providing energy.
• Preventing fatty acid deficiency.
• Helps taste of food, and keeps food in the stomach longer, providing a greater feeling of satisfaction from the foods eaten.
• Helps your body produce endorphins and prevents essential fatty acid deficiency.

As you can see, it is really important to include fat in your diet.  Fat is part of every cell membrane in your body.  It helps transport nutrients across cell membranes.  It can provide back up energy if blood sugar supplies run out.  It helps transmit nerve impulses, while surrounding and insulating the nerve fibers.

Forget The Low Fat Food Diet And Eat The Right Fats Instead

While a low fat food diet isn’t good for you, just eating any fat you want is just as bad.  You need to chose the right kind of fats to include in your diet.

Avoid saturated fats and trans fats.  These are as bad or worse than no fats.

You should also avoid too many omega-6 fatty acids, which are found in polyunsaturated oils such as corn, safflower, soy and sunflower oils.  Too much of these types of oils tip the balance of omega-6 fatty acids in your diet, making them pro-inflammatory.

Instead of the 2:1 ratio we should have in our diet of omega-6 fatty acids: omega-3 fatty acids, Americans are generally consuming 20-50 times more omega-6 than omega-3.  And that’s what tips the balance, and the omega-6 fatty acids are then pro-inflammatory.

This is bad because doctors and scientists are discovering chronic inflammation is likely the root cause of many health problems, such as cancer, heart disease, metabolic syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, and type 2 diabetes.

Instead, most of the fats you consume should be sources of omega-3 fatty acids, as found in monosaturated fats.  These types of fatty acids are ANTI-inflammatory, and good for you.  It’s important to include them in your diet, because your body cannot create them on its own.

Some good sources of omega-3 fatty acids include:

• Flax seeds
• Walnuts
• Salmon and other fatty fish
• Olive Oil

Easy Healthy Eating Tips

 1. Stop using vegetable oils like cottonseed, corn, safflower and soybean oils. 

 2. Switch to olive oil instead.  Or use some lard or coconut oil.  They’re better than using too much of the omega-6 rich vegetable oils. 

 3. Stick with the omega-3 rich oils and foods!

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Low Fat Diet Dangers

Ignore the advertising at the end, and references to previous lectures.  Just concentrate on the message in this video.  I didn’t realize how many ways labels could fool and confuse you about something like the amount of fat in a product.

And here I thought low fat meant low fat.  Silly me. 

You just can’t believe what labels tell you.  It takes decoding to figure them out, which is a real shame.

What we need is real truth in labeling.

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Mythbusters – You Can Believe What The Labels Tell You