Why Fat is the Preferred Fuel for Human Metabolism

Check out PerfectHealthDiet.com. That's the diet I follow & recommend. The authors recommend 65-70% of daily calories come from fat (the type of fat is extremely important though).

The diet is based on avoiding toxic foods and obtaining just enough of each nutritent to bring the levels into a plateau range...............too little is not good..........too much is not good.

They did a lot of research & back up everything with the published studies.

The Perfect Health Diet in One Page

The Perfect Health Diet is, by calories, a low-to-moderate-carb (20%) high-fat (65%) moderate-protein (15%) diet.

However, by weight, the diet is about 65% plant foods, 35% meats and oils.

DO eat:
About 20% of total calories (~400 carb calories per day) from starchy tubers, rice, fruits and berries. Eat as many vegetables as you like; but don’t count any calories from vegetables. Be sure to include seaweed (for iodine).

In total, you might eat
~1.5 lb plant foods.
About 80% of total calories (~1600 calories per day) from 0.5 to 1 lb of fatty meats, seafood, and eggs, plus ~4 tbsp healthy oils and fats.

Include salmon or other cold water fish for omega-3 fatty acids.

Cook with butter, animal fats such as lard or tallow, coconut oil, and olive oil; snack on nuts, cheeses, and fruits.
Use spices including salt.

Do NOT eat:
Grains and cereals (including wheat, oats, and corn but excluding rice) or any products made from them (including bread and pasta).

Sugar, corn syrup, or products containing them (soda, sweets).

Legumes (such as soybeans, kidney beans, pinto beans, or peanuts).

Omega-6-rich vegetable seed oils (such as soybean oil, corn oil, safflower oil, peanut oil, or canola oil).

These “do not eat” foods contain naturally toxic proteins; excessive fructose and omega-6 fats; and few nutrients.

AVOID:
Pasteurized milk, but DO eat fermented or fatty dairy foods: butter, cream, ice cream, sour cream, cheese, yogurt. Within the watery fraction of milk are dissolved biologically active cow hormones and potentially allergenic proteins; fatty and
fermented dairy foods are safer. Raw milk proteins are more easily digested than pasteurized milk proteins; goat milk is better tolerated than cow milk. Those with dairy sensitivity may need to restrict themselves to clarified butter (ghee).

Dry, lean meats which are protein-rich but fat-poor.

Finally, DO:
Supplement to optimize nutrition, with a daily multivitamin plus vitamins C, D3, and K2 and magnesium, selenium, iodine, copper, and chromium.

Practice intermittent fasting, for instance by restricting eating to an 8-hour window each day, or by taking longer “ketogenic fasts” with lots of coconut oil but no carbs or protein.

 

human adults have no need for milk. if they dont know that how can you trust anything else they say?

 

Seems to borrow a lot from the Paleo diet with it's "do not eat" grains, legumes, cereals, wheats, pasta. It is confusing to see one diet say eating cereals, beans, and wheat is healthy while another says it is the root of all evil. I guess there will never be consensus.

 

It's similar to Paleo. One big difference is that this diet includes starches. The Paleo diet, from what I understand, can lead to problems such as stomach cancer because without starches the body does not produce enough mucin, which for one thing, coats the lining of the stomach.

The "do not eat" foods on this diet are foods which have been proven to be toxic to humans.................wheat, fructose, vegetable oils. It includes rice & potatoes because they have been shown to have very little or no toxicity to most people.

It's high fat, because fat is the preferred fuel source for the human body. Carbs turn into fat anyway, so if people understood that they wouldn't be so afraid to eat healthy fats to begin with. Carbs create toxic byproducts as they are converted to energy, healthy fats do not (from what I understand).

So it's a pretty common sense diet. Remove toxins from the diet, obtain each required vitamin in it's plateau range (not too much, not too little), eat the correct ratios of carbs, protein, fat. So it comes down to Toxins, Micronutrients, Macronutrients.

 

I just started a diet from 4 Hour Body ( Tim Ferris) about 2 weeks ago. I have lost I think 2 kilos. Not sure exactly cause yesterday I had carb day ( people who have read it know what I mean).

I have done some mods to the diet though- Tims real one is way too boring for me. One thing I can not give up is fruit. Sorry man, but if I eat beans all day it sort of makes me crave for something sweet...