We’ve been hearing about the benefits of low-fat diets for years, so most people don’t know that most of the so-called benefits have never been proven.
However, studies have shown that a number of health problems can occur if you don’t get enough fat in your diet - especially if you aren’t eating the right kinds of fat.
For instance, chronic fatigue has become common for many of us. We just don’t have the energy we need to get out and do the things that we used to enjoy. We may not even be particularly interested in things that we used to care a lot about - including sex. These can be symptoms of a fat deficiency caused by a low-fat diet.
Are you nervous, anxious, or depressed? Unusual mood swings and unexplained bouts of anger, and other psychological symptoms, can be caused by low-calorie and low fat diets. These dangers have been known by scientists for 91 years, but doctors rarely warn us about them when they tell us to cut back on calories and fats. This is particularly important to know if you eat a low-fat diet and take antidepressants. If you change your diet, you may get your good moods back.
You may be on low-fat diet in order to lose weight, but you may find you actaully gain weight because your thyroid gland needs fatty acids found in saturated fats. A low-functioning thyroid gland can cause weight gain and lethargy.
Your body eneds healthy fats at every meal to help prevent a drop in blood sugar and to prevent a pre-diabetic condition called insulin resistance. Trans fats that are found in partially-hydroginated vegetable oils actually make things worse - we need the right fats to stay healthy.
If you don’t include enough natural fats in your diet you will experience food cravings that may make you binge on sugar and high-fat foods like cookies, potato chips and other fattening snacks. Again, your weight goes up instead of down, and you probably blame your lack of willpower instead of the low-fat diet.
If you get a lot of yeast infections taht keep coming back, eating the right fats and cutting back on sugar and processed grain products can help.
The same things can help if you worry about missing too many days from school or work because you seem to keep getting a cold or the flu.
More symptoms that can be caused by a low-fat diet are irritable bowel syndrom, Crohn’s disease, gallbladder problems, and gas or bloating. The right fats are needed to keep your digestive system healthy.
Your skin and hair need the right fats, too. If you don’t eat enough of the healthy fats, you could have dry, scaly skin, eczema, dandruff, lifeless hair, and more wrinkles than you should.
What are healthy fats? Not what experts have been telling us for the last 50 years. They’ve been warning us away from the natural fats found in meats, milk, eggs and coconuts, but those are exactly the fats our body needs. Those are the natural fats that humans ate for thousands of years, and they can help us stay healthy.
Low fat milk has been found to make children fatter, and eating the proteins in milk or meat without the fat that comes with them naturally can cause gastrointestinal problems.
The low-fat diet fad started at the beginning of the obesity epidemic 50 years ago, and most people follow the low-fat advice because they’re concerned about their weight. But low fat diets cause food cravings and lower your thyroid funcitons, so they may actually be making us fatter.
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