My friend Frank: "My doctor today advised me to give up anything tasty, fatty, or 'with four legs'... I may be switching over to a mostly fish diet soon, with vegetables and fruit, of course. I have to admit, although I love fish, shrimp, scallops, oysters, and tuna but... I'll never give up pork chops!"
Oy vey, Frank! Ignore your doctor. He got his lab coat, then stopped keeping up with the research. Except for the propaganda ghost-written by big pharma in "medical journals" (and, yes, pharma companies have been indicted for doing that).
Healthy saturated fats are critical to health. Critical as in essential. (1,2)
Did you know that your brain is mostly cholesterol? Or that your cells are 50% saturated fat? Or that your hormones are metabolized from cholesterol?
Did you know that a side effect of statins is dementia? And loss of libido and erectile dysfunction? Because statins starve your body of cholesterol!
Those details were probably left out of the misguided and inaccurate what the health "documentary"!
I tried to watch it, honest. I got through the first five minutes, but the propaganda was so intense right out of the gate, I had to stop for my mental health.
Sugar is the poison in today's diet, not good quality saturated fat. And SUGAR, not fat, is the main factor in atherosclerosis. (3,4,5)
Did you know that Alzheimer's is a.k.a. Diabetes III? Because an overload of sugar in your diet is a cause of insulin resistance in the brain (and body), meaning your brain can't use all that glucose floating around in your blood. Without food, your brain cells DIE. You know, that brain made mostly of cholesterol... (6)
Yes, eat all fish (oysters are loaded with zinc, great for prostate), at least once a week. And liver once a week if you like it. You can also disguise it in beef stew if you don't like the taste. Liver is a superfood. As is butter - eat butter at every meal! Put it in your coffee and blend it up -- better than cream. Heck, add both! (7)
And what is life without bacon? 😳
The right diet will go a long way (usually most of the way) to clearing up your health challenges, plus give you the body you want. No amount of exercise without proper diet will do either. There's an old saying around the gym: "Bodies are made in the kitchen." Even bodybuilders know this!
GIVE UP THAT DOCTOR, Frank. He works for the government now, you know. In fact, every doctor who takes insurance does.
Besides, 99% of them know NOTHING about health... or we'd all be well by now.
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