How Do I Know If I’m Eating Enough Healthy Fat?

  “Dr. Hyman, how do I know if I’m eating enough fat?” a reader recently asked me. This is an excellent question and one of my favorite subjects because I wholeheartedly believe eating the right amount and type of fat plays a crucial role in shaping health and well-being. Doctors, patients and readers are often completely confused about fat, clinging to myths and misinformation that prevents them from understanding the latest science to lose weight and achieve optimal health. You’re familiar with many of these myths: Fat makes us fat, fat contributes to heart disease, and fat leads to obesity. Saturated fat is bad, while vegetable oils are good. Simply put, these and other fat myths are big fat lies. Thankfully, the importance of fat is finally starting to catch on. I’d like to think I played a part in this revolution. My latest book, Eat Fat, Get Thin, came out earlier this year. In this book I combined the latest research with my own personal experience – based on decades of empirical evidence working with patients – to prove what I’ve long known: The right fats can help you become lean, healthy and vibrant. Fat is one of the body’s most basic building blocks. In fact, the average person is made up of between 15 and 30 percent fat. Yet for decades, we’ve demonized dietary fat. We’ve diligently followed low-fat diets that almost always equate into high-sugar, high-refined carb diets. This diet contributes...
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