Are fats good for you? Has there ever been a topic more confusing than that of fat?
well I'm gonna explain everything that you really need to know so you get
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anything. So for the last 50 to 70 years we have
been misled and scared about fat it's been demonized and we've been misled
because they've been looking at the wrong thing and they've been asking the
wrong question so they've been getting the wrong answers. So when we ask our
fats good they usually try to answer by talking about saturated versus
unsaturated they talk about animal versus vegetables they talk about
specific food like butter, canola, extra virgin olive oil, flax, coconut, soybean
oil, corn oil, etc, etc but they make it about these things and it's not. If we
ask the wrong question it's very very confusing so the question is not our
fats good that's the wrong question it's not about are saturated fats good that's
still the wrong question. So let's start looking at what we really want to look
at what the real criteria are so we can understand this once and for all. So up
at the top in green are the fats that are good that you can eat as much as you
like don't ever worry about them they're just good solid food and the more you
eat of them the healthier you get in the middle or foods that they're somewhat
unnatural or a little bit altered so if you eat it once in a while it's probably
not gonna kill you just don't consider it a healthy thing don't overdo it don't
do it often and down at the bottom are things that have been completely
destroyed that are unnatural and altered and that we want to avoid like the
plague because they're basically poisoned so let's look at what
some of these are. Grass-fed meat, grass-fed butter, extra-virgin olive oil,
clean fish, avocado, whole avocado or unrefined cold-pressed
avocado oil which is not all that tasty because it's very very strong in flavor
but if you like it and you find it then that's still a healthy food raw organic
nuts coconut oil flax oil again cold-pressed organic in a in a dark
bottle kept in the fridge then that would be okay so these are all good
healthy foods don't ever worry about eating too much of those then we get
down into the orange category here's where we have corn-fed organic beef so
you say oh well I thought organic was good yes but this animal still wasn't
healthy sure you kept pesticides away from him but you fed him corn which is
not natural so the cow gets very very sick from that kind of food sort of like
humans do with beer and doughnuts and ice cream and therefore the fat get
unhealthy you get the wrong ratios you get a lot of unhealthy properties from
that fat then we have corn-fed butter corn fed beef etc so if it's not organic
then it's even worse obviously extra-virgin olive oil that's not
organic would not be such a good thing farmed fish okay not as bad as some
frankenfoods but close because these fish are fed the absolute worst things
that you can imagine they're fed hormones they're fed artificial colors
they're fed any kind of leftover that they can make them eat. Refined avocado
oil or any refined oil at all roasted nuts are not as good as raw nuts because
once you roast them the heat alters the fat properties the if the fatty acids
get oxidized and go rancid to a point so here are things that you want to eat in
moderation here you can eat as much as you like then
down here is avoided like the plague these are things like corn oil canola
oil soybean oil why I thought those were natural things yes but you can't squeeze
oil out of corn you have to heat it you have to use petrochemical solvents you
have to deodorize it you have to do all sort of very very harsh things to it
deodorize it because it tastes terrible and because they're so heavily processed
or even processed olive oil because most olive oil in the cheaper categories are
actually mixed up with other oils and they're just as bad as any of those but
the point is these are so heavily processed that they don't resemble food
any more they have nothing in it that your body wants and I put dry roasted
nuts down here not necessarily because all dried roasted nuts are that's
terrible but I just looked recently and I looked at dry roasted peanuts of one
brand versus another and one brand contained peanuts oil and sea salt and
that would be okay don't eat it like health food but have a snack once in a
while sure but the other brand of dry roasted peanuts
had an ingredient list of about 20 ingredients so that means that the rest
the other 17 ingredients were chemicals flavor enhancers msg artificial flavor
this or that so be very very careful that a lot of things that the more
processed they are the more chemicals they add to it then that makes it a
terrible food. And then at the very very very bottom that's it's not even food
anymore it's more like plastic is shortening and margarine because now
it's not only unnatural and altered but they also destroyed it they have turned
it into something that the world has never seen before those
trans-fats that don't ever go even close to to any of those so now that we look
at this it's not about whether fats are good or bad for you it's the quality of
the fat and in this top category we can see that we have saturated and we have
unsaturated the meat fat the butter it's saturated the coconut oil is saturated
the flax oil clean fish and avocado organic not still HAP's have some either
unsaturated or a mix of fats in them so you have you have both kinds here you
have animal fats and you have vegetable fats so it's not about these categories
it's about how much did we change it if it's the way that the animals have lived
on the planet for a very long time and we do very very little to change or
alter the food then it's still a good food but the more we change it the more
we change their food supply the more we change the processing the worse the food
gets the further away from the natural product we get so the reason this is
also so confusing is that they do a ton of research and the research has all
these different opinions about these items but the question is when they did
research on saturated fats which one did they do the research on and when they
did the research on canola oil or when they did it on and any of these items
which one which category was the food that they used because you can use good
meat or terrible meat and you also don't know what else this person ate because
it's extremely hard to isolate a person who would eat only grass fed or grain
fed beef they probably had some bread and maybe some margarine
so be very careful with the research I'm all for it but don't think that just
because they put out some research that that's some sort of rock-solid
information that you can trust we want to look at what do we want to understand
about this first of all are fats good yes fats are good if they're good fats
- what about saturated fat well saturated fat is more stable so
generally saturated fat is better because we can alter it we can process
it from milk to butter and it doesn't change much because saturated fats are
stable we can mess with them a little bit and not destroy them vegetable fats
we want to get them as much as possible from whole foods like avocado and raw
nuts and clean fish those are fantastic sources of unsaturated fats vegetables
have some fish have some we want to get them from whole food because they're
unstable so when it comes to processed you want to avoid the vegetable you want
to avoid any sort of vegetable or seed oil or anything like that because when
they're unstable and you process them then you destroy them and finally when
it comes to trans fats down here at the bottom don't ever eat a trans fat again
it's like lead or aspartame or any other neurotoxin you just don't ever want to
get any of that again so like much other food it's not about the fat it's the
quality of the fat it's how much did we destroy it if we stick with foods the
way that nature made them were usually okay the more we change them the further
we take them away from the nature the natural package the further we go away
from that the more we destroy it and the more harmful it is and then you can call
it fat or sugar or meat or it doesn't matter if we destroy
it's not good anymore so because a lot of people have eaten a lot of processed
food a lot of altered food we get these confusing messages and we think it's
about the type of food rather than the quality or how altered it was share this
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