The Indespensible Macronutrients in your Diet: Part 3 – Fats

The right fats can dramatically reduce your risk of heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and other diseases. And they can even help you lose weight.

Yum...healthy fats is good stuff!

At City of Hope Medical Center in California, researchers studied two groups of men. One group consumed a high-fat, low-calorie diet. The other group followed a low-fat diet with the same number of calories. The men on the high-fat diet lost 63% more weight.

But wait…how can that be? Hasn’t the AMA and the American Heart Association and the USRDA told us for years that a low fat diet was not only good for us but THE way to stay lean, sexy and healthy.

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So, what are the RIGHT fats? Animal fats are very healthy … if the animals are raised on their natural diet. For example, grain-fed beef can have 500% more saturated fat than grass-fed beef. (Saturated fat is healthy in small, naturally occurring amounts, but too much can be harmful.) I hope you will make it one of your goals to improve your health by choosing to eat healthy fats. These include not only fats from naturally raised animal products, but also fish oil, olive oil, coconut oil, walnut and macadamia nut oils, avocados, and nuts. At the same time, limit your intake of processed vegetable oils (like corn and soybean oils), which are in almost all processed foods. And completely avoid any product with the word “hydrogenated” on the label.

Steve

Prograde is my choice!