[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For years now we’ve been told that fat was the villain and that low-fat diets were what we needed to be eating to stay alive and to stay well.

The problem with many low-fat foods though is that they have lots of sugar in them to make them taste good. And sugar is worse than fat for your health, your waistline and your teeth in every imaginable way.
And it’s never a good idea to cut out one of the food groups. You need them all. Fat, for instance, is one of your body’s most basic building blocks. Indeed your brain is roughly 60 per cent fat. Of that percentage the bulk of it is an omega-3 fat called docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Your brain needs this DHA to help your cells communicate with each other.
Yet fat has been unfairly demonized for decades now.
So let’s separate the fat from the fiction and look at some sources of healthy dietary fat.

5 easy to digest fat facts:

1. Fat doesn’t make you fat and sugar doesn’t keep you sylph-like

The more sugar you consume the more your cells don’t respond to your body’s insulin. The result being that your body pumps out more and more insulin so your body can lower its blood sugar levels.

When your body can’t use up all the sugar you eat it’s stored as fat. Metabolic mayhem results and with that the possibility of diabetes.

 

2. Dietary fat is complex – sugar is simple

Sugar has many forms and many names. But whether it’s refined or unrefined and whatever it’s called it’s still sugar. Giving it a sugar-coated name doesn’t make the stuff any less damaging to your health.
Fat on the other hand is not simple at all. There’s saturated, monounsaturated and trans fat. And that’s putting it simply. Some of these are good, some of them are neither good nor bad and yep, a few are bad guys.

 

3. Low-fat diets are not heart-healthy

Far from being the good guy they’ve been painted as, low fat diets are bad for your health. This is because low fat diets tend to be higher in starch and/or sugar. What this does is increase your blood levels of heart-attack causing cholesterol.
Studies have shown that over 75 per cent of people who have a heart attack have normal overall cholesterol levels. Conversely these patients often have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes.

 

4. Saturated fat is not your foe

Lots of studies have shown that there’s no relationship between saturated fat and heart disease. It has to be said now, as with most things in life, quality counts and not all fat is equal. The saturated fat in a cheese-burger from a fast-food joint is a different beast to saturated fat in coconut oil. The former is better avoided while the latter is to be embraced.
Furthermore, the right fats actually increase your body’s fat burning abilities, cut your hunger and reduce storage of fat. Therefore helping you to lose weight. On the other hand eating excess sugar and the wrong sort of fat will… well… make you fat.

 

5. Some fats are unhealthy

Okay. This might seem contradictory but there are some bad fats and they include trans fats and vegetable oils. For instance the triglycerides in margarines and spreads are more harmful than the fats in milk and dairy products. Butter is better!

 

Where to find healthy fat

Okay so now you’re convinced that fat is fab – or at least the right sort is – what foods can you find it in:
• Avocados
• Nuts: walnuts, almonds, pecans, macademia – but not peanuts. Sorry.
• Seeds: pumpkin, sesame and hemp.
• Fatty fish including sardines, mackerel, herring and wild salmon that are rich in omega-3 fats.
• Extra virgin olive oil
• Extra virgin coconut oil or butter – not only does this not cause problems with your cholesterol/fat levels it might even resolve them.

So, fatty fish are rich in omega-3 fats and are great at supporting your heart health and brain function But what if you don’t like fatty fish?
Well help is at hand in our extensive range of fish oil supplements. We have a whole shoal of them in our online shop so you can choose from krill oil softgels with omega-3, flax seed oil softgels in either 500mg or 1000mg doses, cod liver oil, or omega-3 fish oil.

 

Source: http://drhyman.com/blog/2015/12/27/separating-fat-from-fiction-10-fat-facts-you-need-to-know/

 

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