Are FATS BAD For You? (Real Doctor Reviews The TRUTH)

Are fats good for you? Has there ever been a topic more confusing than that of fat?

well I'm gonna explain everything that you really need to know so you get

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anything. So for the last 50 to 70 years we have

been misled and scared about fat it's been demonized and we've been misled

because they've been looking at the wrong thing and they've been asking the

wrong question so they've been getting the wrong answers. So when we ask our

fats good they usually try to answer by talking about saturated versus

unsaturated they talk about animal versus vegetables they talk about

specific food like butter, canola, extra virgin olive oil, flax, coconut, soybean

oil, corn oil, etc, etc but they make it about these things and it's not. If we

ask the wrong question it's very very confusing so the question is not our

fats good that's the wrong question it's not about are saturated fats good that's

still the wrong question. So let's start looking at what we really want to look

at what the real criteria are so we can understand this once and for all. So up

at the top in green are the fats that are good that you can eat as much as you

like don't ever worry about them they're just good solid food and the more you

eat of them the healthier you get in the middle or foods that they're somewhat

unnatural or a little bit altered so if you eat it once in a while it's probably

not gonna kill you just don't consider it a healthy thing don't overdo it don't

do it often and down at the bottom are things that have been completely

destroyed that are unnatural and altered and that we want to avoid like the

plague because they're basically poisoned so let's look at what

some of these are. Grass-fed meat, grass-fed butter, extra-virgin olive oil,

clean fish, avocado, whole avocado or unrefined cold-pressed

avocado oil which is not all that tasty because it's very very strong in flavor

but if you like it and you find it then that's still a healthy food raw organic

nuts coconut oil flax oil again cold-pressed organic in a in a dark

bottle kept in the fridge then that would be okay so these are all good

healthy foods don't ever worry about eating too much of those then we get

down into the orange category here's where we have corn-fed organic beef so

you say oh well I thought organic was good yes but this animal still wasn't

healthy sure you kept pesticides away from him but you fed him corn which is

not natural so the cow gets very very sick from that kind of food sort of like

humans do with beer and doughnuts and ice cream and therefore the fat get

unhealthy you get the wrong ratios you get a lot of unhealthy properties from

that fat then we have corn-fed butter corn fed beef etc so if it's not organic

then it's even worse obviously extra-virgin olive oil that's not

organic would not be such a good thing farmed fish okay not as bad as some

frankenfoods but close because these fish are fed the absolute worst things

that you can imagine they're fed hormones they're fed artificial colors

they're fed any kind of leftover that they can make them eat. Refined avocado

oil or any refined oil at all roasted nuts are not as good as raw nuts because

once you roast them the heat alters the fat properties the if the fatty acids

get oxidized and go rancid to a point so here are things that you want to eat in

moderation here you can eat as much as you like then

down here is avoided like the plague these are things like corn oil canola

oil soybean oil why I thought those were natural things yes but you can't squeeze

oil out of corn you have to heat it you have to use petrochemical solvents you

have to deodorize it you have to do all sort of very very harsh things to it

deodorize it because it tastes terrible and because they're so heavily processed

or even processed olive oil because most olive oil in the cheaper categories are

actually mixed up with other oils and they're just as bad as any of those but

the point is these are so heavily processed that they don't resemble food

any more they have nothing in it that your body wants and I put dry roasted

nuts down here not necessarily because all dried roasted nuts are that's

terrible but I just looked recently and I looked at dry roasted peanuts of one

brand versus another and one brand contained peanuts oil and sea salt and

that would be okay don't eat it like health food but have a snack once in a

while sure but the other brand of dry roasted peanuts

had an ingredient list of about 20 ingredients so that means that the rest

the other 17 ingredients were chemicals flavor enhancers msg artificial flavor

this or that so be very very careful that a lot of things that the more

processed they are the more chemicals they add to it then that makes it a

terrible food. And then at the very very very bottom that's it's not even food

anymore it's more like plastic is shortening and margarine because now

it's not only unnatural and altered but they also destroyed it they have turned

it into something that the world has never seen before those

trans-fats that don't ever go even close to to any of those so now that we look

at this it's not about whether fats are good or bad for you it's the quality of

the fat and in this top category we can see that we have saturated and we have

unsaturated the meat fat the butter it's saturated the coconut oil is saturated

the flax oil clean fish and avocado organic not still HAP's have some either

unsaturated or a mix of fats in them so you have you have both kinds here you

have animal fats and you have vegetable fats so it's not about these categories

it's about how much did we change it if it's the way that the animals have lived

on the planet for a very long time and we do very very little to change or

alter the food then it's still a good food but the more we change it the more

we change their food supply the more we change the processing the worse the food

gets the further away from the natural product we get so the reason this is

also so confusing is that they do a ton of research and the research has all

these different opinions about these items but the question is when they did

research on saturated fats which one did they do the research on and when they

did the research on canola oil or when they did it on and any of these items

which one which category was the food that they used because you can use good

meat or terrible meat and you also don't know what else this person ate because

it's extremely hard to isolate a person who would eat only grass fed or grain

fed beef they probably had some bread and maybe some margarine

so be very careful with the research I'm all for it but don't think that just

because they put out some research that that's some sort of rock-solid

information that you can trust we want to look at what do we want to understand

about this first of all are fats good yes fats are good if they're good fats

- what about saturated fat well saturated fat is more stable so

generally saturated fat is better because we can alter it we can process

it from milk to butter and it doesn't change much because saturated fats are

stable we can mess with them a little bit and not destroy them vegetable fats

we want to get them as much as possible from whole foods like avocado and raw

nuts and clean fish those are fantastic sources of unsaturated fats vegetables

have some fish have some we want to get them from whole food because they're

unstable so when it comes to processed you want to avoid the vegetable you want

to avoid any sort of vegetable or seed oil or anything like that because when

they're unstable and you process them then you destroy them and finally when

it comes to trans fats down here at the bottom don't ever eat a trans fat again

it's like lead or aspartame or any other neurotoxin you just don't ever want to

get any of that again so like much other food it's not about the fat it's the

quality of the fat it's how much did we destroy it if we stick with foods the

way that nature made them were usually okay the more we change them the further

we take them away from the nature the natural package the further we go away

from that the more we destroy it and the more harmful it is and then you can call

it fat or sugar or meat or it doesn't matter if we destroy

it's not good anymore so because a lot of people have eaten a lot of processed

food a lot of altered food we get these confusing messages and we think it's

about the type of food rather than the quality or how altered it was share this

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