Fat Fest

One of the most common mistakes people make when starting out on the Wheat Belly lifestyle is to remain fearful of fats. They continue to hold onto old misconceptions such as “fats raise cholesterol,” or “fat causes heart disease,” or “fats are calorie-dense and therefore make you fat.” None of this is true, no more true than “healthy whole grains” are a key to overall health. (The rationale dashing all these misconceptions is discussed in detail in Wheat Belly Total Health.) This accounts for why some people, even after removing the gliadin-derived opiates that come from wheat and related grains, continue to experience hunger or cravings—it’s due to not taking in enough fats. The solution: get more fats and oils. We avoid oils sourced from grains, of course, especially corn oil, since there will be corn protein residues that can mimic some of the effects of wheat gliadin, not to mention modern humans are so miserably overloaded with the omega-6 fraction/linoleic acid of oils (though linoleic acid is one of the essential fatty acids–avoiding it entirely is fatal, but you can get plenty from meats, nuts, and non-grain seeds).  We avoid mixed vegetable oils, soybean oil (like corn, it can have protein residues, although the fatty acid composition is not that bad), canola (increasingly related to health problems, such as hypertension, possibly due to the high trans fatty acid content created by the high-temperatu...
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