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If you want to lose fat, eat more fat.
Sounds crazy, right?
Perhaps, but it’s true. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition recently showed that eating twice as much fat led to greater weight loss!
Sure, fat has about twice as many calories per gram as carbohydrates and protein. But math isn’t the best measure of a food’s effect on the body. Biochemistry is. And the latest research proves it.
Researchers compared two eating plans that were similar in caloric intake but vastly different in fat consumption. Obese individuals who consumed 61 percent fat energy for eight weeks lost 18 pounds. Those consuming a mere 30 percent fat lost 14 pounds. Far more staggering than the differences in weight loss are the differences in biochemistry between the two groups.
Low fat, high carbohydrate eaters have the perfect biological environment for obesity and type II diabetes. Their blood levels of glucose, insulin and triglycerides skyrocket. The Nurses’ Study by Harvard found that women who eat mostly carbohydrates increase their risk of diabetes 2.5 times! Men are not immune to the deadly carbohydrate effect.
Diabetics die early from heart disease twice as often as those without diabetes. It is so damaging that it can erase 11 to 20 years from a person’s lifespan. Currently, an estimated one in four Americans suffer from it. One in three born in the year 2000 will succumb to the Big Fat Scam and therefore suffer from diabetes according to The Journal of the American Medical Association.
The best way to avoid the diabetes epidemic is to start eating more fat and fewer carbs. Avoid trans fats, of course, and give preference to fats with omega-3’s. Grass-fed beef, seeds, nuts, avocados, coconut oil and fish are the best choices.
[Ed. Note: Shane Ellison is known as "The People's Chemist." He holds a Master's degree in organic chemistry and has first-hand industry experience with drug research, design and synthesis. He is the author of Health Myths Exposed and The Hidden Truth About Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs. Get his FREE Life-Saving Health Briefs by clicking here.]
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