These Fats Won't Make You Fat

The Plan Z Diet uncovers why the "low fat" craze isn't what it's hyped up to be.

By: Zola
Chief Dieter
Plan Z Diet





“Eat less fat” has been the mantra of the US government for the past 30 years. But while Americans have dutifully reduced the percentage of daily calories from saturated fat since the 1970s, the obesity rate has more than doubled, diabetes has tripled, and heart disease is still the country’s biggest killer.

I got sucked into the “low fat” craze along with everyone else. The tide was huge. I used to read packages looking for low fat everything, so why was I getting fatter? I was eating the WRONG stuff.

Today I want to put emphasis on things you can happily eat with satisfaction, and they are all fats.

I’m not going to get all scientific on you. When I start talking about unsaturated fats, monounsaturated fats, polyunsaturated fats and trans-fats I see people’s eyes begin to glaze over. So I’m going to skip all that and just give you a straightforward list of good fats to eat.

Take this list with you when you go to the grocery store.

Here’s a Plan Z Diet list of good-for-you fats:

• Extra virgin olive oil – A Plan Z Diet favorite, I use this in most of my cooking now. No more canola oil, vegetable oil or corn oil in my cupboards.
• Butter – Toss the margarine.
• Extra virgin coconut oil – Another big YUM. I use this in my cooking too.
• Flaxseed oil – I put this stuff in my Plan Z Diet protein smoothies in the morning. Hair stays shiner and nails grow strong. It doesn’t taste great out of the bottle but you can hide it in just about anything; even your soup.
• Avocado and avocados – Think homemade salad dressing and eat the guacamole!
• Almonds and Walnuts – I roast my own and put spices on them to zip them up. Then I snack on them. Great for Plan Z Diet ZReboot munchies.
• Pumpkin seeds as well as most raw nuts and seeds – Ditto on these.
• Olives – Need I say more?
• Cod liver oil – Your grandmother knew. Okay, so I’m still not eating this off a spoon but it is a good oil.
• Wild, cold water fish – I spend the extra money every time to get wild caught salmon. You don’t want to see a fish farm. Ugly experience. You don’t want to buy farm raised fish either.
• Coconut Milk – So Good Unsweetened is a great brand. I put this in my Plan Z Diet smoothies instead of cow’s milk.
• Flax meal
• Organic goat cheese
• Organic free range egg yolks – We eat eggs almost every day at our house. If not, we eat unsweetened peanut butter spread on apple slices.
• Almond butter – This works great on those apple slices too.
• Pine nuts – Any Italian meal goes better with toasted pine nuts sprinkled on top.
• Macadamia nut oil and sunflower oil – 2 other great salad dressing options as a change from olive oil.

Your body needs healthy fats to run smoothly. Your brain is made up of 60% fat. Feed your brain these fats and you’re less likely to have memory loss, dementia and depression. And enjoy eating them. They used to be on my list of BAD foods. Now they are a staple of my diet. How about you? Oh, and by the way…my total cholesterol is way below 200; just in case anyone was wondering about that.

Cheers,


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