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Maybe there’s something to the old adage, but it’s certainly not that simple. The nutrients we eat get absorbed into the body. In order to get our vitamins and minerals, we need to eat foods rich in those nutrients. For that reason, it’s true on the micro level, but not so much on the macro level.

Eat fat, get fat. That’s what we’ve been told. It’s complete nonsense. There’s only one macro-nutrient that can be stored by the human body as fat and that’s carbohydrate. Carbs get broken down into blood sugar, which causes insulin to be released, which in turn causes the body to store fat. Insulin is a direct response to sugar. No sugar, no insulin. Without the sugar to burn, the body starts burning fat. This is known as ketosis, which is not to be confused with the harmful ketoacidosis. In order to get the body to burn fat, we need to eat it and the best type of fat to eat is saturated fat. I know, it blew my mind too.

I used to subscribe to the whole “healthy whole grains” low-fat mentality. I’ve been overweight pretty much my entire life. I did something about it maybe 8 years back and I actually got skinny. It was hard work and I was miserable. I cut out all the things I was supposed to – ate lean meat, mostly low-fat turkey and chicken and avoided fat wherever possible. It all came back and then some. Recently, I decided that enough was enough and I actually started to do some proper research on the subject.

Carbohydrates, even the supposed healthy whole grains convert very quickly to blood sugar. This is an extremely easy fuel for the body to burn, but it’s not very efficient at doing so. When blood sugar increases, insulin gets produced to try to regulate it. When excess blood sugar exists, it gets converted to fat for storage. This is for future use. The problem is that it’s much easier to burn carbohydrate than fat, so that when we’ve used up what’s available, the body looks for more. If we keep munching on the carbs, those fat stores never deplete and actually get bigger.

Conversely, eating fat triggers signals to say that the body is satisfied pretty darn quickly. Fat is pretty dense stuff in energy terms and it takes a while for the body to burn it all up. While it’s burning what you’ve eaten, it’s also pulling from those stores that it has accumulated.

I mentioned in the last proper post on here that I’d been eating a lot of grass-fed beef. I’ll elaborate on that now. Breakfast most mornings is a couple of slices of bacon (usually from Niman Ranch) and half a pound of grass-fed ground beef, shaped into a couple of quarter pound patties and fried up in the grease resulting from the bacon being cooked. This is often enough to keep me going for quite a while. I’ll snack on almonds throughout the day and often won’t even bother with lunch, especially if I’ve had a breve (latte made with half & half instead of milk) that morning. Dinner is usually either steak or pork chops (the bacon wrapped pork chops from Niman Ranch are amazing). Occasionally I’ll go for some halibut or mahi-mahi.

Eating all of this, I feel satisfied. Along with that, I’ve lost over 30 lb and feel better than ever before. I’m not done yet by any stretch of the imagination either. I’m not worried about the usual warnings that get trotted out. There’s been absolutely no proof that high cholesterol causes heart disease or the hardening of arteries. It’s all anecdotal. The results of the studies that supposedly prove these things are no more than correlation and correlation is not causation. Smarter people than I have written this in much more detail, like Dr. Michael Eades and Jimmy Moore.

In conclusion, I’ll just say that I’m glad I finally decided to look into all of this instead of relying on what i “knew” not be true. It turns out I really didn’t know anything at all.

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