Misconceptions About Dietary Fats by Dr. Robert Osgoodby

For decades, the media has been preaching how fats are associated

with obesity, cancer, arteriosclerosis, and heart disease. Back

in the late 1980's, the U.S. Surgeon General recommended that

Americans decrease their consumption of dietary fats. Marketing

savvy food manufacturers immediately started coming out with

everything from fat free ice cream to fat free cheese. In place

of fat, more carbohydrates were added.

With all of the "fat free" marketing, the general public believed

that since something was "fat free", they could eat larger

portions. Over the next ten years, Americans became fatter than

ever! Obesity skyrocketed from 12% of the population to over 20%

of the population in just 10 years. Today, research has found

that 50% of Americans are overweight and approximately 23% are

obese. With the help of the food industry, the public has

developed a "fat phobia" and the importance of including healthy

fats in our diets has been neglected.

If your goal is to build a stronger, leaner, more muscular body,

dietary fats are necessary to maintain and improve your health,

and play an essential role in reaching your fitness goals.

There are two types of fats, saturated fats and unsaturated fats.

Unsaturated fats are considered healthy fats, they are usually

liquid at room temperature. Although there are many sources of

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