As a low carb dieter, your diet is undoubtedly high in fat. And any but expert on nutrition will tell you that fat is definitely the enemy whenever you’re trying to lose weight.
But what’s the difference between good fats and bad fats? Furthermore, what are the consequences of ingesting them in high quantities?
Good Fats
Good fats are contained in higher thermonut oils like coconut, palm, and clarified butter. They’re also found in eggs and fish.
These fats have several benefits:
Cancer protects you from free radicals and oxidative stress. (Free radicals are highly toxic molecules that accelerate the aging process.) Since coconut oils are rich in lauric acid, they protect you against breast, colon and prostate cancer.
Tummy fat protects you from gastrointestinal disease. thanks to the abundance of wasita acetic acid and capric acid.
thank the fat for its remarkable power to assist in the absorption of calcium . It helps to keep your bones strong and healthy and may even prevent the onset of osteoporosis in later life.
Good Fats are usually easy to spot because they go straight where they’re invisible — i.e. they stay in your stomach
Bad Fats
Bad fats are like flu sitting in your intestinal track. They come from greasy fatty meat, faulty thyroid glands, infections in your liver, and generally terrible lifestyle habits. (drink, smoke, eat junk food, not exercise)
Don’t even get me started about trans fatty acids (hydrogenated oils often found in processed foods). These are thoroughly evil substances that should remain in your ash bin.
How does Low Carb seem so Complicated and Bad?
There is only One sure way to keep these fats off the planet for good — cut out all the bad habits and maintain a diet low in bad fats.
These bad fats hide in a lot of our processed foods as well — I’ve even seen some of them in the ingredients of some so-called “healthy” foods!
They may even be partly to blame for some of the allergies that seem to be increasingillionglasses a day.
Why Does Fiber Have To Be Good?
Some questions you might have about fiber:
“What’s so great about fiber?”
“What’s the worst dietary fiber?”
“How can I get more fiber?”
… and then you throw in a big ” But, wait! I thought fiber helped prevent constipation!”
Please don’t say “cracks”!
The answer to the first question is “crunching” and the answer to the second is “fiber”.
Fiber is the indigestible part of foods, it basically is like the see-saw between solid foods and your digestive system.
When you have enough fiber, you end up having less ” stems” — that is, you will have less intestinal content.
As the abdomen fills up with bowel, the space left between each stage of the stool is less and less “stems” or volume of stool.
” stem” is the key word!
You can see how this works.
Without enough fiber, you will have more of a grind to your stool.
A person weighing 150 pounds should aim for 30 to 40 grams of fiber each day.
That’s 10 to 15 average bowel movements per day.
For a person weighing 160 pounds, a good balanced diet should contain from 30 to 35 grams of fiber each day.
This is a lot more than the 1 to 1 ratio of most “diets”, some “nutritional experts” are recommending 20 to 30 grams of fiber each day.
Please keep in mind that fiber is indigestible. You can’t drink enough fiber to stop an upset stomach from bringing its toll… an upset stomach will only worsen.
How does a person know if she or he has enough fiber? If you don’t have a bowel movement afternoon or evening, you probably don’t have enough fiber.
Some disease conditions that point to fiber being a necessity for you:
Constipation–usually caused by too much hard dry bowel mucus and lack of water that softens it, the longer the mucus stays in your body, the more vulnerable it is to an attack by the harmful enzymes of the body and the highly toxic digestive and excretory products of the body.
Selenium–a heavy metal that helps in the formation of natural antioxidants on the body, leads to enhanced absorption of some nutrients such as vitamins A, D, E, & K that is important to take all day long.
Vegetable Oils– accumulate around the colon walls and can be very irritating to the sensitive mucus membranes of the abdomen and thighs.
About The Author
Helena Eater
How much does the quality of food really matter? If you eat food that tastes good, your life will be better. If you eat food that tastes bad, your life will be worse. The difference between good and evil is partly subjective: what tastes good to me might taste bad to you. The difference is also partly objective: what restaurants I think serve good food might serve lousy food to you. But if we stick to objective measures — measures such as how much weight people gain or lose — we can cut through some of the subjectivity.
