For years, the Western world demonized coconut oil for supposedly increasing cholesterol and causing heart attacks, even using full-page newspaper ads to do so. It turned out that the soybean industry used this advertising ploy of dissing the
Olive oil has become very popular over the past few decades. It is recommended by health gurus of every description. Why has interest in olive oil skyrocketed? Extra virgin olive oil is popular for two main reasons.
First,
Are fats bad? I get that question all the time. The truth is: Fats are like people. Some are bad and some are good, based on their behavior.
Bad fats are bad. Good fats are good. Bad oils
Excess carbohydrates MUST be converted into fats, which get carried to and stored in your cells. That is the law in your body. It’s important for survival. Chronic over-consumption of carbohydrates MUST lead to fat deposits, then to overweight,
How do carbohydrates make you fat? You make or order food and eat it. By habit, you may like one or more of the following: grains, bread, flour, pasta, potatoes, fries, chips, noodles, corn, muffins, barley, yams, squash, grain-based
In every one of your body’s 60 trillion cells, you have several genes for fat burning and you also have a gene for fat production.
When they’re turned on, the genes for fat burning in your cells’ furnaces
I’m not much of a coffee drinker. Coffee, after all, is made from roasted (burned) coffee beans (and by the way, neither coffee beans nor cocoa beans are actually beans). Burning changes molecules from natural to unnatural. Any food
How often do you change the oil in your car? If you care about your car, you do it on a regular basis, right? You drain out the dirty oil, and you replace it with clean oil.
When
Fat consumption figures are based on the fatty acid content of oil sources in their natural state. They cannot give accurate correlations between LA nutrition and disease trends, for instance, because these figures fail to show how much LA
Between 1910 and 1980, many changes took place in the kinds and amounts of fats and oils that people ate.
Total consumption of all fats increased by 35%. Our total fat consumption rose from 32% of daily calories to