Fat’s not fat
Do you know why low fat food is popular? If you answered that because fat makes you fat then please go sit in the corner and start reading tummy tuck information, because no diet is going to work for you.
Food is essentially made up of fat, protein and carbohydrates. One gram of protein has the same number of calories as one gram of carbohydrate however one gram of fat has double the amount of calories compared to the others.
In a world where dieting and dietary control is based on calorie counting it makes a lot of sense to remove the fat to reduce the total calories eaten. However this is simply a mechanism to maximize the size of the meal whilst keeping those calories low.
What you then find is guilt by association. Dietary advise becomes not low calorie it becomes low fat. Add into that the fact that if you have a wobbly stomach it is essentially a layer of fat it becomes very easy to see how the world starts to view poor old fat as the cause of all dietary ills.
But is it true? In a word… no.
The human body takes in carbohydrates as converts them to blood sugars to act as a fuel source. Extra carbohydrates are converted into body fat.
When you base your diet on fat and protein the body fuels itself not on blood sugars but on ketones. Your body can’t convert these back into fat and so all those not used are dumped from the body. Ketones are created from body fat as and when needed and when your body is fed fat it becomes used to burning fat for energy.
Fat also sates the appetite far more than carbohydrates and so you want to eat less.
So maybe fat after all is not the diet killer people have long believed it to be?
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