| Facts about FAT. |
| Claim: Eating fat makes you fat. If you do not eat fat, you cannot gain fat. Fact: A low-fat diet makes you fat. Eating fat causes you to lose body fat and reach our ideal body composition. Furthermore, eating dietary fat is essential for life. Eating fat is essential for reproduction, for the regeneration of heathly tissues and for maintaining ideal body compostion. Claim: Eating fat and cholestrol adversely affcts your cholesterol profile and puts you at risk for heart attacks. Fact: Eating a low-fat diet causes heart attacks. High insulin levels produced by low-fat, high carbohydrate diet result in plaqueing of the arteries, because insulin directs all the biochemial processes that lead to plaque formation in arteries. Eating fat and cholesterol can prevent heart attacks by lowering insulin levels and switching off the internal production of cholesterol. Claim: Eating fat causes cancer. Low-fat diets prevent cancer. Fact: Low-fat diets (high in carbohydrates) cause insulin levels to rise too high, a growth factor and a major player in cancer cell replication. Dietary fat lowers insulin levels. Dietary fat is also essential for hormone producion, which in turn is essential for a healthy immune system. In other words dietary fat provides the immune system with key components that fight the growth of cancer cells. Claim: Eating fat increases your risk of high blood pressure (Hyperension). Fact: Cutting fat from your diet increases the risk of high blood pressure because, without fat insulin levels rise higher in response to food. Insulin stimulates various biochemical processes that can lead to increased blood pressure. Claim: A low-fat, high carbohydrate diet, which is the current "standard of care" treatment for diabetes, makes patients healthier. Fact: Long-term low-fat, high-carbohydrate dieting leads to insulin resistance and if continued results in Type II diabetes. This same diets makes diabetics sicker. *****It is important to note that these claims are not backed up by long-term scientific studies. But the facts are supported by physiology and biochemistry (true science). ***** |
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