Dietary fats

With the LCHF (low carb high fat) diets and the hype of Omega 3 fatty acids I feel the urge to shed some light on this topic.

A few decades ago we feared fats and substituted with sugar instead, we know now this wasn't a good idea. Mostly the food industries were happy to do this, sugar is more addictive than fats and more cheap to use in products.

Now we see a shift for fats and the industry is jumping to get a chance to sell you more products and more expensive ones. There are lots of money to be made simply by selling tablets of fish oil, selling more (and more expensive) fish or urging us to pour olive oil into everything we eat.

Never before have the humans ingested so much oil and fats, the culprit is that the fats we are eating is out of balance due to overindulgence of Omega 6 fatty acids, according to the science. Many then supplement with Omega 3s to counteract this - the problem isn't that we are underconsuming Omega 3 fatty acids - but OVERCONSUMING Omega 6s!
       The ratio of these two uses to be 1/1 up to 1/4 (the first being Omega 3s and the second representing Omega 6s). Nowadays we have upped the consumption of 6s due to meat consumption, processed oils, poultry and some seeds making the ratio out of whack. The ratio of today is between 1/25 and 1/30, what the industry is quick to tell you is to increase your Omega 3s when in fact you'd be better off decreasing the 6s.

Reducing the amount of animal protein and fats you eat will prevent heart disease not increasing the consumption of fats. Let meat be a treat and use it as a flavor enhancer but let greens and vegetables be the main course. I can tell you, no one ever got heart disease eating kale!

I'm not saying you should give up fats entirely but be wary of the type of fat you consume, natural fats in nuts and seeds aswell as avocados and coconuts are good sourses of fat. Eat sparingly of oils, these fats are heavily processed in a way that humans have a hard time to process (where in nature can you take a gulp of oil?) and eating meat, poultry, fish and eggs in moderation since the feed that all these animals are fed are processed, GMO and chemical laden soy and corn. The toxins in these accumulate in the tissue of the meat your eating, a safer way of eating animal protein is to go grass fed and organic as often as possible.

Fats and calories, people who  say that fats make you thin are not really saying the dietary fat itself is burning calories, the theory of this is if you consume a large amount of fat you get full (maybe even sick) and don't want to eat more, hence consuming less calories. This isn't entirely true, a calorie still counts and if you are able to overconsume you can still gain fat.

1 gram of fat is 9 calories (twice the amount of calories found in protein and carbs)

I recommend watching the documentary Food Choices 2016 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6hJNayG6dxk

I don't agree to all the things said in that documentary but it is a good informative film with lots of knowledge built in, enjoy!