The Outrageous Truth about Dietary and Saturated Fats

Are saturated fats are bad for you, you may be surprised by the facts you read below…

Doctors, health “experts” and the media at large warn about The Outrageous Truth about Dietary and Saturated Fats. Politically correct thinking about nutrition differs from some of the following facts. So having an open mind as you read though this is important.

The body is a machine that has evolved over time going back to the cave man. Back in the day they did not have the man made compounds we have today. Your body needs an adequate supply of healthy dietary fats. This is important to the  overall health and wellbeing of your body. Fats are a main element in all of the cell membranes throughout your entire body. When you eat the appropriate amount of healthy natural fats, your cellular processes will carry on normally.

On the flip side, your cellular function will be impaired when you eat the chemically altered, man-made, heavily processed fats that are found in almost all processed foods. When these altered fats become part of your cell membranes, the body will have to work harder to operate correctly, and degenerative diseases can develop.

Healthy Dietary Fats

Healthy dietary fats are essential for optimal hormone production and balance within the body. They are a critical element for muscle building and fat burning processes.  Another important function that dietary fats play in a healthy body is to aid vitamin and mineral utilization, enzyme regulation, energy, etc.

Restriction of any one macronutrient (protein, carbohydrates, or fat) in your diet works against what your body needs and can only lead to problems in the big picture. It is troubling to hear the proclaimed “health experts” recommend limiting the intake of dietary fat, claiming that a low-fat diet is the key to good health, weight loss, and prevention of degenerative diseases.  It just does not seem to make sense that chemically altered elements can be good for the body. I will agree that too much dietary fat or anything for that matter cannot be healthy.

As Dr. Mary Enig, Ph.D, a worldwide leading fat researcher, observes in a number of her books and articles, there is very little true scientific evidence supporting the assertion that a high fat diet is bad for us.

All three basic macronutrients (protein, carbohydrates, and fat) serve important functions for a lean, healthy, and disease-free body.

An interesting observation

Below are some examples of high fat diets and the associated excellent health of traditional populations around the world and there are many others. Why is it that many doctors, nutritionists, and media outlets ignore these facts and continue to promote a diet that restricts fat intake.

  • Up to the point that western dietary influences invaded, traditional Pacific Islanders who typically obtained 2/3 to 3/4 of their total daily calories from fat, primarily from coconut fat, remained nearly free from heart disease, obesity, and other modern degenerative diseases.
  • Traditional Eskimo populations who consumed up to 75% of their total caloric intake from fat, typically from whale blubber, seal fat, organ meats, and cold water fish, display better health and longevity without heart disease or obesity?
  • Members of the Masai tribe in Africa remained free from degenerative diseases and maintain low body fat percentages on diets made up of sizeable quantities of raw whole milk, blood, and meat?
  • The Samburu tribe of Africa, consumes an average of 5 times the quantity of dietary fat by and large from raw whole milk and meat as overweight, disease-ridden Americans, yet Samburu members are lean, healthy, and free of degenerative diseases?
  • Those who enjoy the traditional Mediterranean diets, which are known to be very high in fat, in some cases up to 50-70% fat, and are also well known to be very healthy?

The biggest problem is that the good fats, natural unprocessed fats, are mistakenly included with the deadly processed fats and oils that make up a large percentage of nearly all processed food sold in your local grocery store, restaurant, deli, fast food restaurant, etc. The bad news is that these deadly processed fats are literally everywhere and almost impossible to avoid unless you know what to look for and make smart choices in what you feed your body with.

It is important to understand, I’m not suggesting following an excessive high fat diet. Everyone needs a good balanced diet with adequate supplies of healthy carbohydrates as well as good sources of protein.

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Make it a wonderful day!

Anna

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