Eat Bacon, Don’t Jog
Forget salads – bacon, cheese and cream are the key to weight loss.
Eating fat – rather than carbohydrates – is the key to slimming down, according to Grant Petersen, author of Eat Bacon, Don’t Jog.
For years, Mr Petersen tried to lose weight in the conventional way – through eating a low fat diet and exercising for up to three hours a day.
While he says he wasn’t fat by American standards, he wasn’t losing weight and became frustrated.
After researching different diets, he came to believe that rather than weight loss being a simple matter of calories eaten versus energy expelled, it concerns the hormone insulin.
Fat from salmon, sardines, herring, anchovies; shellfish like crab, shrimp, scallops, and oysters.
They are low on the food chain and die young so they don’t have time to accumulate mercury the way big old predator fish like tuna and swordfish do. These are high in omega-3s, low in omega-6s.
Grass-fed animals
They also have a good ratio of omega-3s to omega-6s, although not as overwhelmingly good as oily fish.
Fats from olives, avocados, and especially macadamia nuts
These fats aren’t high in omega-3s, but they have better omega-6 to omega-3 ratios than do most fatty foods.
The dominant type of fat in both olive oil and avocado oil is monounsaturated, which provides health benefits that make up for the unimpressive ratios for omega-3s to omega 6s.
Coconut oil
This contains medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs).
These fats are good because they are metabolized differently than other fats.
They’re easier to burn as energy, and when you do that you make ketones, an efficient fuel for body, heart, and brain functions.
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