By: Tracey Tufnail
vancouversun.com

I am now down 31 lbs, and I feel great. My husband’s weight has dropped around 20 lbs and he is loving it, too. Not eating wheat is certainly a factor in my continuing weight loss and improving health, but I have also made two radical changes when it comes to dietary fats.

Firstly, I now eat at least three times the amount of fat I used to eat. That’s right; I am eating more fat, not less.

Secondly, the fats I am consuming are mostly saturated, with coconut oil at the top of the list, closely followed by butter and lard.

After reading a number of books on alternative nutrition over the past few months I have come to the conclusion that saturated fats are not the big, bad food wolf they are being made out to be.

Saturated fats are good for our brains, protect our livers from toxins, aid lung and kidney function, and are essential for health sex and stress hormone production. Our bones need saturated fat to assist with the uptake of calcium, and saturated fats in our diets can reduce levels of C-Reactive Protein, an indicator of inflammation which is considered a predictor of heart disease. And they actually slow down the process that our bodies use to store fat.

So, the very fat we have been told is bad for our health might just be what we need to help it.  Pretty wild theory, eh?

Read the Full Article Here: http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2011/12/18/fat/

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