fat has long been villafied by the popular media and diet/food industry. Because it has been condemned to a shamefull post in the fitness/diet profile of the culture we have a society terrified of the rammifications of fat food.
strange how we find fat (in food) scarier than cancer in cigarettes..
the sad, horrible truth is , fat is not evil. fat is necessary. fat is good for you.
we need fat for a mirade of bodily functions. fat is our information transport system and our in house chemistry set as well as an important energy system.
even the often maligned saturated fat we get from animal products has an important role in our health profile.
like everything in our lives, we need balance. an out of balance life is a chaotic life full of frustration and stress.
our diets need balance as well. for years now (thank you food lobby and popular media) we have had our diets being pushed further and further out of kilter, where we flood our system with carbohydrates and deny it protiens and fats. then a fad will come along and we will unbalance the other way reducing carbohydrates way too low in favour of fats or protiens.
we need balance. we need fats.
lucky for us, most of our diet will provide us with the fatty requirements we have. think, steak, fish, nuts, avacado, olives.
beware of fast foods-not fat foods
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