Eat fat to get thin – sounds ridiculous, right? How can eating fat cut fat? We have all been bombarded by hundreds of dietitians, nutritionists, and doctors that zero oil and fat diet is the only way to use up your stored fat resources. In Eat Fat, Get Thin, Dr. Mark Hyman tells you this is all wrong.
His argument, of course, is to eat good fat. We know high percentage of fat is often correlated with high cholesterol and triglycerides. Which in turn is a precursor to blocked arteries and the road to heart diseases. Not to alarm you or anything, just saying.
But getting all fat out of your diet surely doesn’t sound the right thing to do. Our body needs everything in right balance. Unfortunately some of us are designed to burn less fat and add it to our bodies. And for those, perhaps, eating more fat is the answer.
Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health
Author: Mark Hyman M.D.
Pages: 400
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (February 23, 2016)
ISBN: 0316338834, 978-0316338837
Dr. Mark Hyman is the Director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, chairman of the Institute for Functional Medicine and founder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center. Eat Fat, Get Thin is grounded in his personal experience and on results of others whom he advised to follow this new fat based diet.
Dr. Hyman digs deep into the reasons why we have a bunch of diets that profess success with Low-Fat diets and the food industry that followed these guidance to create new products. He finds fault in the US government’s old meal guidelines and points out how people’s drive to eat less fat propelled them to eat more carbs and sugar.
The book asks you to answer a short questionnaire to check if you have carbohydrate intolerance. If you are reading this post, you most probably are. Sounds ridiculous? Well, I am pretty sure more than 90 percent of the people reading this post will fail that questionnaire.
In Separating Fact from Fiction, the author systematically explains you the state of Fats by looking at different sources of fats in your food and informs you of the good and bad in each. Once the readers are convinced and educated about good fats, the author moves on to explain the program. Readers also get a brief section on healthy cooking methods and some recipes.
Diets are difficult, but they are not that difficult. Dr Mark Hyman asks his readers to plan their meals and think ahead about what they want to eat for their lunch or dinner. A bit of planning can save a lot of time and keep you from making a hasty, unhealthy decision.
Have you been on a low-fat diet for some time without any benefits at all? Do you replace the calories from fats with carbs, without making any change to your portions? Then fats may not be the only reason you are gaining weight. Read More about the ‘Pegan” diet, it just might work for you.