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Top 3 Reasons for Consuming More Saturated Fat If you're reading this article then you are likely like most people in the world who have been told by the food companies, doctors, governments, and media that all forms of fat are bad for you. If you take a stroll down a grocery store lane, everything is labeled as zero fat or low fat. I challenge you to try and find more than two variants of full fat yogurt. It's impossible. Now, you have probably been told that eating fat increases your cholesterol level which clogs your arteries and leads to heart disease.
That's the current dogma around medical and food circles. Not to mention, if you eat a lot of fat then you will get really fat, right? Wrong. Dead wrong. First, a distinction needs to be made between trans fats (unsaturated fats) and saturated fats. Trans fats don't really exist in nature except in insignificant amounts in meats and dairy products. Most trans fats are created artificially through man's intervention to manufacture foods. A statistical correlation has been shown between trans fats and coronary heart disease with an elevation of "bad" LDL cholesterol and decrease in "good" HDL cholesterol. Unlike all other fats, trans fats are absolutely unnecessary for your body to be healthy and strong.
This shouldn't be surprising because historically in the majority of humankind's existence, we didn't consume trans fats. On the other hand, saturated fats are absolutely necessary for the human body to be healthy and strong. Here are five reasons why saturated fats are vital to your health and why you should eat more saturated fats: Your body is made of saturated fats. That's right, your cells need saturated fats to grow and create new cells. Your brain is composed by mostly cholesterol and saturated fats. Your lungs and liver need saturated fats. You could never consume another ounce of sugar, flour, trans fats, or grains and be perfectly happy and healthy. But without adequate supplementation, your body will significantly age faster and break down without saturated fats in your diet. Saturated fats lead to a healthy immune system. White blood cells need fat to recognize and destroy foreign invaders.
This includes cancer cells which can explode into a significant problem if your immune system is jeopardized. Eating saturated fats most likely will lead to weight and fat loss. Most Americans eat a horrendous diet with way too many processed foods, too much sugar, and too many carbohydrates. Fat is a complex, densely packed food that takes a long period of time for your body to digest. On the other hand, carbohydrates are quickly converted into glucose which spikes your blood sugars and leads to an insulin spike.
More insulin means that glucose is quickly converted into fat cells, and you feel a "food crash" prompting you to eat again and get fatter. Your body is evolutionarily built to use fat as its primary source of fuel such that you actually burn most of the fat rather than it getting converted into body fat. Perhaps, you are still skeptical about increasing your intake of saturated fats.
Everyone can't be wrong, right? Consider the following ideas then. During most of man's history, we ate meat as our primary fuel. While we can eat grains, our bodies have spent significantly more time eating meat and thereby fat in our diet. Numerous doctors including Dr. Eades and Dr. Mercola have spoken about the myths involved with fat and cholesterol. Finally, you won't really know until you try it. Give it a month and see what results happen and judge for yourself. I hope that after reading this article you understand more about the importance of having a lot of saturated fats in your daily diet and maybe inspired to look for more information or try it out yourself.