The Fat-Free Myth: Why You NEED Fats to Be Healthy

<img class=”alignleft size-full wp-image-4768” alt=”Do you eliminate fats from your diet” src=”http://guide2diets.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/4e4137c66b_Fat-is-Essential-for-Your-Health.jpg” width=”400″ height=”225″ title=”The Fat Free Myth: Why You NEED Fats to Be Healthy” />Are you afraid of eating fats? It’s not unusual to have the misconception that fat is bad for you.

The whole fat-free craze that started in the 1980s made lipids the enemy. As more people shunned fats, food companies created more low- and no-fat products to meet the demand. The trouble is that many foods that are reduced fat or non-fat have added sugar to give them flavor.

All that extra sugar is what raises insulin levels, making your body a fat-storing machine. What you want to be is a fat-burning machine.

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This article The Fat-Free Myth: Why You NEED Fats to Be Healthy originally published at Foods4BetterHealth by Christy Goldfeder.

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