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sulin, the fat storage hormone,
which lays down more belly fat.
It also confuses and slows your
metabolism down, so you burn
fewer calories every day.
It makes you hungrier and crave
even more sugar and starchy carbs
like bread and pasta.
Eating Fat Does Not Make You Fat
The diet and food industry has
brainwashed us to eat fat-free
foods, which seems like common
sense. Eating fats makes you fat.
Right? But the science tells us
otherwise — not all calories are
created e qual. And even though
fat has more calories per gram
(9 calories vs. 4 calories of carbs
and protein), eating fat can help
you lose weight.
Science has proven that eating
fat doesn’t make you fat — sugar
does. And it is sugar, not fat,
that raises your cholesterol despite what people and most doctors still believe.
A 20-ounce soda is fat-free, but
that doesn’t make it a health food.
If cookies were fat-free, then you
can eat the whole bag, right?
But the fat is replaced with
flour and sugar, and the result
we now have is one in two adults
with diabesity — that’s pre-dia-
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HYMAN
HUFFINGTON
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betes or Type 2 diabetes — and
almost one in four teenagers with
pre-diabetes or Type 2 diabetes.
So why does eating fat-free
make you fat and diabetic?
In a recent Harvard study, Dr.
David Ludwig found that in two
groups eating exactly the same
calories, the group that had the
low-fat diet (which means higher
in sugars and starches) burned
300 calories less per day. Their
The diet and food
industry has brainwashed
us to eat fat-free foods,
which seems like common
sense. Eating fats makes
you fat. Right? But the
science tells us otherwise.”
metabolism was slower than the
group eating the higher fat and
higher protein diet.
If you ate the higher-fat, higher-protein diet (of exactly the
same calories), it is the equivalent
of running for one hour a day. In
other words, if you just swap out
sugars and starches for good quality fats and protein, it will be like
you added an hour of free exer-