The End of An Era: Why Low-Fat Diets Aren’t For Losers

THE DOCTOR IS in and he's here to set the record straight about how eating more fat can actually help you lose weight. While this concept may seem counterintuitive, our March guest editor, Dr. Mark Hyman, literally wrote the book on this hotly debated topic. Lucky for us, Dr. Hyman is offering up his top fat-friendly insights to demystify fat's role in optimizing your mind, body and overall health.

Almost everyone I know – doctors, patients and eaters alike - is confused about fat and still holds on to myths and misinformation that prevents them from taking advantage of the latest science to lose weight and get healthy.

You’re likely familiar with many of them: fat makes us fat; fat contributes to heart disease; saturated fat is bad, vegetable oils are good… I could go on, but I think you know what I’m talking about.

None of these beliefs about fat are true. In my latest book, Eat Fat, Get Thin, I combined the latest research with several decades of my empirical evidence working with patients, to prove what I’ve long discovered: The right fats can help you become lean, healthy and vibrant.

Fat is one of the body’s most basic building blocks. The average person is made up of between 15 and 30 percent fat! Yet for decades, we’ve unfairly demonized dietary fat, and diligently followed low-fat diets, which almost always mean a high-sugar and high-refined carb diet that contributes to insulin resistance, obesity, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and numerous other problems.

Simply put: Sugar, not fat, is the real villain that steals our health and sabotages our waistlines.

I’m determined to separate fat from fiction by giving you the skinny on fats – what to eat and how to use dietary fats to regain your health and ideal body weight. Eating lots of the right fat will make you thin. The right fats increase metabolism, stimulate fat burning, cut hunger, optimize your cholesterol profile, can reverse Type 2 diabetes and reduce your risk for heart disease.

I want to help spread the word about fat so that we can put an end to this low-fat era. Share this post, let us know in the comments, and you’ll enter yourself in a chance to win a copy of my new book!

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