Fat has been getting a bad rap for decades. If we eat fat, we get fat, right? Not really!
A study published in August of 2017, in the respected medical journal The Lancet, compared the diets of 135,000 people across 18 countries. When comparing low-fat and low carbohydrate diets, the results were surprising. Those people who followed low-fat diets had higher rates of death ‘from all causes’, including heart attack and heart disease. People on low-carbohydrate diets, however, had significantly lower risks of the same outcomes. Muscles need fat to function, our nerves are coated and protected by fat, and our brains need fats for energy.
Fat is our friend, not our enemy!