Who else isn't afraid of consuming fat?

I don't even trim it off my steak. I eat it, just as nature intended. And it's good. And my heart is still beating. And I'm losing weight like crazy.

Yeah---they learned a long time ago that eating cholesterol does NOT raise blood cholesterol levels (the liver MAKES abundant cholesterol all by itself). Nor do high cholesterol levels create heart disease. It is cholesterol that is used by the body to put a "patch" on lesions that have formed in the blood vessels due to inflammatory processes. And that inflammation is largely caused by our crappy high carb diets. The metabolizing of table sugar, contributes greatly to forming Advanced Glycation Endproducts (the initials A,G,E are exactly what they do to your body's cells).

Getting back to the subject of low-fat eating, it has been terrible for the national waistline (the food processors took out the fat and put in sugar and starch) and it has NOT prevented an increase in diabetes rates (many diabetes researchers say that obesity and Type II diabetes is essentially the same disease--referring to it as "diabesity"). Our ancestors ate a lot of fat (at least as much or more than most of us do) and yet they were quite thin. The difference between us and them (other than the much greater exercise they got through doing heavy manual labor) is that they didn't eat sugar. Our yearly per capita consumption of sugar went from less than 5 pounds in 1900 to 150 pounds today. We get only about 40% from eating sugary foods---the rest is hidden in processed food.

p.s. Don't get me wrong---there is nothing wrong with healthy carbs--they have a "muscle-sparing" effect that is quite necessary if you want to build muscle. It is the amount and the type that tends to be the problem. Because simple carbs tend to be "addictive" we eat far too many of them as a proportion of our diets.

The worst part of it is that those of us who find we are healthier on a meat-heavy diet have to either hope that most people do better with less meat or that they don't ever realize they would be healthier if they ate more meat because beef in particular is so resource intensive that there simply isn't enough to go around if everyone goes meat-based.

Even if junk is taxed and the money is used to make healthier foods cheaper (which would be a good start) we still have that resource usage issue.

I was happily reading through and nodding..then I saw Bulletproof coffee, didn't know what it was then another post revealed the truth.. Way no!! As a lifetime black coffee drinker that sounds like an oil slick in a mug.:noway:
Please someone help me out with why you would do that to good coffee. Doesn't the coconut oil taste??

Bring on the cheese and the meat and the nuts and the yummy yoghurt!

I'm not. When I had a little bit more money I had a trainer/nutritionist. She said there is a major difference in types of fats and how they are digested. I eat eggs and I eat chicken thighs versus breasts because they taste better. I use butter versus margarine. As long as you keep track of the calories I don't see anything wrong with it. I would rather have good natural fat than some disgusting low calorie crap. IMO.

BTW, the same thing applies for alcohol. I'd rather hang with my friends, have a good time, and consume a few adult beverages than to live my last day on earth wishing I'd enjoyed life a little more and wasn't so controlled about everything. I got that from my dad - you live once. Make wise choices, but enjoy your life!

Fat does not make the human body fat. Carbs/sugar makes us fat. The animal science community knows this well. When farmers want to fatten livestock, they increase carbs for a period of time.

We have become fat because of 100 years of our western diet which is full of carbs/sugar.

Learn to live without sugar and a reduced carbohydrate diet based on foods only available in nature and you will be feeding your body the fuel it was designed to consume. Feed it high carbs/sugar and you end up with new diseases for Big Pharma to make and sell drugs for.