Fat – The Actual Truth About the “Good” Fat

Misconception About the Fat

Over the last three decades, food nutritionists and the food industry as a whole have embraced the idea of eating low fat food. This was a direct result of the information published by the government that encouraged less egg consumption because of the cholesterol found in eggs.

After that particular piece of information, doctors began to discover that when we consume fat, we have higher occurrences of cholesterol problems. The logical conclusion was that fat must be bad.

And so, the entire generation has grown up with taking fat free foods. The entire generation grew up believing that fat was what made us fat, clogged our arteries, and generally caused health disorders.

So, we turned to carbohydrates to make up for the loss in taste of food that had the fat removed; for you see, fat is what gives many of our foods their delicious taste. When you remove the fat, the taste must be artificially injected into the food.

Fat Free Foods

The final result is a food is with high carbohydrates and low fat. Hence, all the wonderful labels were displaying the claim of “fat free” but neglect to mention the higher level of carbohydrates.

Lowered fat should have created a population of slim, trim, and healthy people. Right? We could not have been further from the truth. As it turns out, fat is a necessary part of our metabolic procedures.

We need the fat in order to properly utilize many of the vitamins and nutrients we eat. When did we make this discovery? Probably some thirty years too late for some people.

The Good Fat

Now, more in-depth research has revealed that maybe it wasn’t the fat that created the cholesterol levels that were out of control. Maybe it was a combination of lifestyle and food habits that created dangerous levels of cholesterol.

The surprising discovery is that there are two kinds of cholesterol: HDL and LDL. There are certain kinds of fat that contribute to the overall health of our arteries, not to their detriment.

How could we have been so wrong? Because, just as many times before, the doctors performing these tests, found what they wanted to fine, not necessarily the truth. Further testing could have produced the same results in the beginning that they produced in the end.

Manufacturers Concealing the Truth About Fat

Now, we have whole food industry formed around low or no-fat food alternatives. These companies invested large amounts of money in the production of these foods, and are not going to be able or willing to turn around on a dime.

It’s because of corporate investment that current knowledge about the “good” fat has been concealed as long as it has. It is a very expensive piece of knowledge that is being passed on to the public today.

So expensive, that some companies would be out of business were they to try and reverse their food processing. Some of the fat that our bodies produce protects us from sickness and disease, and some forms of fat that we produce are necessary for our organs to work properly.

Many of the carbohydrates that we artificially inject into food become stored fat that creates obesity. It would seem to me, that we have traded the normal, necessary good, for the artificial bad.