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How Does Eating Fat Make Any Sense? So you want to lose fat. You’ve headed over to seek the wisdom of the interwebs on the latest greatest innovations in fat loss diets and guess what – it’s telling you to eat fats. There are paleo diets, high fat low carb, ketogenic. It can leave you thinking “Okay, what the heck, I have been eating low fat yoghurt for years now.”
Let me take some of the guesswork out for you. Back in 2015, the Lancet (a prestigious medical journal) found there was no evidence that low fat diets were better at keeping the weight off than the low carb Mediterranean diet. This was no surprise for researchers who have compared this low fat business with other diets for years. But before you go eating all the cake and cream hold up. They found that the low fat diet was better than no diet at all. Now, I had to cringe when that article said, “no diet at all” because let’s face it, if you are eating anything, then you have a diet. You just might not have a structured or intentional approach to it. I think the idea is that a structure is better than no structure. We all fall off the band wagon, and it’s important to have a treat every now and then (we have to live a little!) But making consistent choices and having healthy delicious treats is a good place to start (and stay if you can!). When you’re reading about these high fat, low carb or keto type diets, you’ll read about ‘macros.’ What are they? Macro is short for ‘macronutrients’. While sure, everyone is different and some diets will work better than others for you because of that fact, there are some human realities that are the same for everyone. One such thing is that there are three types of macros, and our body responds to each of them differently. Proteins. These don’t cause a change in blood sugar or insulin levels (unless we eat large amounts, in which case our body can behave like its just eaten carbohydrates). Carbohydrates: These cause your blood sugar levels to increase and therefore your insulin levels to go up along with it. Fats: These, somewhat surprisingly, don’t affect blood sugar and therefore don’t trigger insulin release.