The health benefits of low-carb high-fat (LCHF) diets
Both male and female dieters have been doing it for ages – avoiding carbohydrates, meats and fats in favor of salad.
It turns out they were only partially right.
It’s true that carbs – bread, crackers, cereal, pasta, cookies, potatoes and other starches, candy and soda – only offer temporary satisfaction. Carbs are broken down into simple sugars in the intestines and then absorbed into the blood. If you don’t burn these calories, then your body will produce more insulin and store those calories as fat. This means that in the end, it will make you pack on the pounds and the elevated insulin levels will lead to chronic low level inflammation..
Unless you’re a super athlete, your body doesn’t need excessive amounts of carbohydrates to function and some elite and professional athletes are now adopting low carb eating as both a way to improve their performance as well as improve their health!
But did you know that eating some fats keep you feeling full longer and feeling more alert and energetic?
Enter the low-carb, high-fat diet.
The low-carb high-fat diet is now taking North America by storm. It might be a new idea to the diet world, but it’s not a new idea at all. People have been eating like this since the dawn of time, when our human ancestors survived as hunter gatherers, living primarily off saturated fats and leafy vegetation. In fact, it’s not a diet at all, it’s a lifestyle.
Our bodies actually need fats to function properly. Foods that are naturally high in saturated fats include coconut oil, butter, nuts, animal fats such as lard, ghee or tallow, fish oils, cheeses, cream, and dark chocolate. Saturated fats that we get from eating beef, pork, lamb, fatty fish like salmon, lamb, chicken with the skin and dairy, as well as nuts, tropical fruits and vegetables like coconut oil, palm oil, avocados and mangoes offer your body a large number of health benefits. This ‘diet’ also means that you can eat eggs, shrimp, sauces like hollandaise, béarnaise, mayonnaise and vinaigrettes and fried foods, albeit in moderation.
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