(Lamb and chick pea curry)

and fat –Be clear. You need cholesterol. And there’s good and there’s bad fat so you need to differentiate.

  Good fat or High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) is essential to your good health, while LDL (low density lipoprotein0 is not so good for you.

  Inevitably people will advise you to ‘Not eat cholesterol rich foods’, without understanding what that means. They will advise statins to ‘cut your cholesterol’, when it is now increasingly clear that taking statins has little or no effect on death rates from heart attacks, can increase diabetes risk and even reduce the quality of your sight and mental alertness.

  So let’s think again. According to top American Heart expert Dr. Chauncey Crandall of The Palm Beach Cardiac Clinic, bad fat is not the issue per se.

  You need to maintain a ration of HDL to LDL where HDL is dominant. So you can eat saturated fats, as long as you eat more ‘good fats’ like extra virgin olive oil, nut oils (walnuts, almonds) and seeds (flaxseeds, sunflowers, pumpkin seeds), avocados, and oily fish.

  You should never consume Trans Fats. They are not inert – they are now known to be harmful and can produce Pattern type-2 fat in the body which is dangerous.

  If you don’t consume common glucose and HFCS (see the Rainbow Diet and sugar), and graze rather than eating one or two big meals a day, and eat raw vegetables rather than overcooked you will control your insulin levels and greatly reduce the possibility of developing chronic inflammation in your body. Chronic inflammation, not fat, is the precursor to chronic illness.

When arteries become inflamed, fat inevitably sticks. If you have no inflammation, the fat will not start to build up.

A high fat diet rather than a high carbohydrate diet, induces ketosis in the body. Ketosis protects the brain.

Fat is essential – it is important for healthy cell membranes; brain health, producing hormones, and procing vitamin D. Sunshine on the cholesterol layers beneath the skin produces vitamin D which arms the immune system and has epigenetic benefits, being corrective of histone blockages around the DNA.

  Just stop for a second. In this modern world we are told to stay out of the sun, consume less fat and everyone over 50 is encouraged to take statins. All of this reduces your vitamin D levels. Now here are the conclusions from a 2008 research study in the Journal of Cell Biology:

“Vitamin D can adjust almost everything in the cancer cell, from its genetic messaging to its cytoskeleton. It can switch genes on and off, and it can reduce cell division, and it can calm the cancer cells so that they settle rather than spread. It seems vitamin D can actually return a cancer cell to a normal and healthy state”. 

So, do you still think fat is bad for you. Just ensure you consume more ‘good’ than ‘bad’. The Rainbow Diet will take care of that for you.