net percentages

So how much of what do we need. We can find any diet to allow us to consume how ever much we want of anything. It is just so amazing at how good we are at deceiving ourselves.

US Dietary Council says we should consume 30% fat, Dean Ornish on his heart healthy diet says we should consume 10%, many low fat diets say we should consume 20% fat, low carb diets say we consume any amount of fat. Before the heart healthy diets started in the 80's we usually consumed 40% fat. Now that fat was good fat, not manufactured fats. It was butter, lard, tallow. It was before King Corn came into play. In those days there was many more deaths from heart disease. But did the low fat decades cure heart disease? NO! We developed procedures to fix heart disease, medicine to stop the progression, little pacmen to eat the plaque in our veins. The plaque is still there more than ever, the heart problems are diagnosed earlier, and then we fix them so we don't die from them. Low fat did not fix our heart disease. Low fat put us on a course of adding more carbs to our diet which in turn made diabetes more prevalent, which in turn made more of us have heart disease at a younger age.

Also the heart healthy oils, corn oil, canola oil, vegetable oil, are bad for you! We eat lots of these oils in lots of processed foods. Also the food fed to our animals which we consume has made beef fatter, pigs leaner, chickens huge, and turkey oh my what has happened to turkey.

So look at the fats your eating, choose wisely. Eat healthy fats but watch how much. Cut out processed foods and you will probably get your fat intake in line with what we actually need.

Balance your food with the needs of your body.