You know I quit sugar, right? And you know I’ve stuck to it? And you know I’ve written an ebook on how to do it?
For those of you who haven’t read it yet, the main thrust of my 8-week program is replacing sugar with fat. It’s an approach I really find worked for me, and for many others. But I keep getting asked:
“is it really ok to eat fat?”
“how can you say saturated fat is OK?”
“how much fat do YOU eat?”
Alright. Let’s clear a few things up, then…
1. This short video sums up a fair bit of the misconception around saturated fat:
The gist is this: in the 1950s, a random scientist called Ancel Keys published a dodgy study that told us saturated fats were bad. The study was a total furphy. But we latched on to it. It’s important to realise that at that time the edible oil industry in the US seized the opportunity to promote its polyunsaturates. The industry did this by developing a health issue focusing on Key’s anti-saturated fat bias. With the help of the edible oil industry lobbying in the United States, federal government dietary goals and guidelines were adopted incorporating this mistaken idea that consumption of saturated fat was causing heart disease. This anti-saturated fat issue became the agenda of government and food industry groups around the world.