Eating Fat Does Not Make You Fat
There are five basic things your diet should provide: energy for your brain, fuel for your body, nutrients for your cells, no unnecessary toxins, and, perhaps most importantly, satisfaction. But most low-calorie, low-fat diets fail to do any of these things. The truth is that many so-called ‘diet’ foods are actually contributing to the obesity epidemic around the world. Dave Asprey
Even before people gain weight, they show significant metabolic changes as a result of consuming a higher-carb, lower-fat diet. These changes in belly fat cells start the whole process of weight gain.
There has been a lot of research done and much written about low-carb, high-fat diets for weight loss. And the conclusions seem clear: high-fat, low-carb diets work better than low-fat, high-carb diets.
The A TO Z Weight Loss Study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, in 2007, Chapter 2 was a twelve-month study of 311 overweight, non-diabetic, postmenopausal women. Hands down, the high fat group in this study did better in every way. They lost twice as much weight, and every cardiovascular risk factor improved.
Another study, the DIRECT trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008 looked at 322 moderately obese people and gave each group a calorie restricted low-fat diet or a low-carb, high-fat calorie unrestricted diet. The group that was told to not worry about calories and to eat the most fat lost more than 66 percent more weight. Even more surprising, the ratio of total cholesterol to HDL dropped 20 percent in the high-fat group but only 12 percent in the low-fat group. The high-fat group also had better results by a big margin for HDL, triglycerides, insulin and glucose, and inflammation, and even improvements in fatty liver.
The Diogenes Project found that a lower-carb, higher-protein diet worked better for weight loss maintenance. Other studies and large reviews of low-carb, high-fat diets all show that they are better at aiding weight loss and cardiovascular health. People also found it easier to stick to these diets because fat makes food more satisfying and taste better.
Mark Hyman, M.D. Eat Fat Get Thin