Monday 28 April 2014

Eat Fat for a Healthier and Slimmer You: Weight Loss Tactics

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Eat Fat for a Healthier and Slimmer You: Weight Loss Tactics
In this day and age, where processed and convenience food is a tight schedule-to for many busy people and families, critical nutrition is being kicked to the curb. One of these nutrients, a macronutrient, is fat.

It's not breaking news that fat has been demonized for decades. It became crystal clear in the '80s with the rise of fat-free half, half, cookies and cakeshalf and cheese, butter... Butter? Really? Butter = fat, and now they've made a fat-free, butter-like-food. Truth alert: Yes, I bought into this fat-free craze like crazy! I was the queen bee of all things fat-free and even refused any dressing on my salads, always opting for straight-up balsamic vinegar. Good thing I got my common sense back before major damage was done.

Let's take a step back. We humans sustain ourselves on three macronutrients. Macro, meaning big. The 3 big nutrients we require for our bodies are: fat, protein and Carbohydrates. When we short-change our bodies from one of these macronutrients, we will have to pay up later with poor or failing health. This is a fact that we cannot escape. So what is a smart and educated person to do? We can't really gorge ourselves on the unhealthy fats we know taste delicious, and yet we require it for a healthy body.

Our bodies require fat for many reasons. Here are the top three:

1. To absorb and assimilate fat soluble vitamins: D, E and A and K. Translation? If you're eating a fat-free or too low-fat diet, your body is not absorbing those vitamins, particularly the all important and more popular than ever, Vitamin D.

2. To boost the liver's function of releasing fat. Yes, we require fat to burn fat. It's the proper type of fat that matters. More on that in a bit.

3. Fat helps food taste good. If you are eating a diet with little or no fat, you're undoubtedly feeling a bit deprived. And what happens when you feel deprived after consuming a meal? You want to eat more. This is quite an issue and the main reason why we have a weight problem in this country. People are simply overeating.

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