The Fat You Eat is not the Fat You Carry

We can't - and believe me, you don't even want to eliminate fat from your diet. It is very important to become and stay healthy. 

Vitamins A D E and K are fat soluble which means they can only be digested when fat is present. (So when you take multivitamins or vitamin pills of this sort, you need to take them with food that contains some fat.)

For healthy skin and hair as well as maintaining regular body temperature and healthy cell functions we need fat.

But what kind of fat? Meat with white chunks or spots full of fat or lard, butter, heavy cream, so you get it for sure? Or the fully man-made margarine that used to be a butter substitute during the war when food was scarce? Definitely not!

Humans up till about ten thousand years ago needed fat to survive the ice age of the time when they had to walk and run a marathon-a-day to find and kill their prey. That prey was wild, lean with strong muscles itself.

Do you run many miles a day to find and kill your prey and try to share it and save it for later? Do you eat strong wild game? Oh, no? The animals you eat only live for some months or maybe a year, stay idle and artificially blown up to maximize its size so it would provide the most profit in the shortest period of time. 

Not very appetizing. 

So the fat we need is plant based  in small amounts.

Nuts, beans and legumes, good oils like olive oil, avocado gives you what you need. 

Remember, fat calories are more than twice as much as carbohydrate's or protein's. 9 calories per gram, so you need only a small amount to satisfy your daily needs.

THE FAT YOU CARRY

Remember, our body builds makes its own building blocks. Your fat that you gain under your skin or around your organs can originate from proteins, sugary food as well as grains or carbohydrates. The body is a great factory that can create its own building blocks from almost any combinations. It transforms fat you eat or even protein you don't need to simple sugar for energy and then when you are covered as far as energy goes, it will store the excess in fat cells that will be released in need for energy so it will become sugar again at that time. 

We not just need to eat though, we want to eat often and at every occasion to eat when we socialize, entertain, go anywhere. There is no way we would ever go without food for days. The longest fast is during the night when we sleep so we usually don't eat so when we wake up we break the fast very fast not to go hungry.

So we pile up fat everywhere our body can store it. Bulge here and there, oops, we begin to have a hard time to bend, we might walk funny because our thigh are so close they are rubbing each other, we grow breast like bulges on our backs and it is only the outside. Meantime our organs are getting imprisoned by fat all around them. So they fight and finally they get exhausted and fail. So you go to see a doctor where you want to be repaired when your cure is in your hands and mouth. So is your toxins and poison. 

So you decide. Fat or lean, healthy or sick, energetic or sluggish. I guess that is democracy too when you have all these choices.