Low Fat Diet: Really The Best Choice For Healh?

Low Fat Diet For Good Health: Verity or Lie?

For instance, if what the so called "health experts" are professing all the time about danger of fat is correct, and that the solution to good health is low-fat diet, then why do traditional Pacific Islanders who typically get most of their total daily calories from fat (mostly from coconut fat), appear to be virtually protected from heart disease, obesity, and other modern degenerative diseases (that are, until Western dietary influences invaded)?

What about traditional Eskimo populations, consuming up to 75% of their total caloric intake from fat (from whale blubber, organ meats, seal fat, and cold water fish), display superior health and life longevity without heart disease or obesity either?

Why do members of the Fulani or Masai tribes in Africa remain free from degenerative diseases and maintain low body fat percentages with diets consisting of large intakes of raw whole milk, meat, or even cow blood? What about the Samburu tribe of Africa, whose members eat an average of 5 times the dietary quantity of fat (mostly from meat and raw whole milk) as overweight, disease-ridden American people? Though Samburu are healthy, lean, and never affected by degenerative diseases?

What about traditional Mediterranean diets, which are known to be very high in fat, in some cases sometimes up to 50-70% fat? These people are known to particularly appreciate olives and olive oil, and are also well known to be very healthy!

These revealing examples of high fat diets and the associated excellent health of traditional populations around the world go on and on, though it seems that many physicians, nutritionists, and media publications still neglect these real facts and persist in promote a diet recommending low fat intake.

Well, the problem is that the good fats (the natural unprocessed health promoting fats) have gotten mistakenly lumped together in nutritional advice with the dangerous and deadly processed fats and oils whose a large percentage of almost all processed food is composed. Yes, the one you find at your local grocery store, restaurant, deli or fast food joint, etc.

These deadly processed fats are literally everywhere and almost impossible to avoid unless you know what to look for and make smart choices in what you feed your body with. Fortunately, it's know possible to control on food products' labels that the term "0% transfat" is present.

However, I’m not recommending to follow a super high fat diet. Active individuals that exercise on a regular basis certainly also need adequate supplies of healthy carbohydrates for energy and muscle glycogen replenishment as well as good sources of protein for muscle repair.

I just wanted to prove with the above examples of the traditional populations high fat diets and their corresponding excellent health, the point that you don’t need to be afraid of dietary fats as long as you make healthy natural choices and stay within your daily caloric range to maintain or to lose weight (depending on your goals).