Eat Fat to Lose Weight as Explained by Dr. Berg

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so let’s talk about fat okay because what we want to do we want to keep the carbohydrates way down there uh no more than 50 gram per day uh hopefully down like 20 grams we want the proteins to be at a a moderate amount not too much uh because they can convert to insulin um and then now we want the fats to be about 60 to 80% of the total calories now let me just expl explain what I mean I’m not talking about total volume I’m talking about calories if we take one unit of a fat unit uh it had more it has more than twice as many calories as the carbohydrates or protein so I’m talking about daily calories I’m not talking about just quantities so it’s not going to be like you’re going to have drinking liquid butter or lard but you’re going to have um a good amount of fats in the diet and we’re going to have healthy fats there’s some things to talk about uh regarding fat and understand because people are freaked out because they’ve heard for a long time uh that this eating fat will clog your arteries probably the biggest study um I think his name was Anil keys and he was uh he did the the study back in the 50s and started this whole phobia of fat and so um what we found out now if someone has ever read this study that he omitted several countries in this study so we he didn’t show the full picture so he basically took what he wanted to and then he omitted the other stuff that he didn’t want to so it was we found now that um found out that that study was altered and fat now is okay to consume and this is after years of putting everyone on lowfat diets but let’s talk about clogged arteries there is no study whatsoever that is independent study that shows that eating fat will cause increase in cholesterol or heart problems in any way shape or form okay so that’s interesting because that goes against what people have been telling you now they did some studies and they found that eating fat will cause insulin resistance and possibly some diabetes but the types of fats that they use use were corn oil okay well of course cor corn oil is genetically modified it’s really bad I’m not going to recommend to consum it so we have healthy fats and we have unhealthy fats we’ll get into that a little bit um the next thing is that why do we have to eat the fat number one there’s a lot of nutrients in fat that’s where you get all your fat vitamins fat soluble vitamins vitamin A d e k K1 K2 those vitamins are essential for health and you can’t live without them and yes you consume vegetables but those have the precursor of vitamin A for example they don’t have the the actual active form of vitamin A which is F type of vitamin I’m going to do a video on that you have have to be converted so really it would take four pounds of car carrots to equal one teaspoon of beef liver for vitamin A so again I’m talking about available fat CYO vitamins uh most of those are in animal products it’s in the fat and we must consume products with with these fat cyal vitamins so that’s the nutrient we have essential fatty acids Omega-3 Three fatty acids we need a little bit of omega-6 those are essential because our body can’t make them uh we also need cholesterol our body does make it but it’s a beneficial thing because it helps to heal uh parts of our tissues that’s part of the purpose um and now uh we get into the raw materials for the body do you know that your brain is mostly fat um so we have to constantly replace that your brain uh sucks up 20% of of all the calories that you eat go to your brain so it’s a very hungry organ and it’s full of fat the nervous system all the mile and sheath that surrounds the nerve is made from fat all of your cell walls you have trillions of cells and they’re all made of fat so we need that fat to protect the cells and the immune system fat is a um an immune protector as well there’s a lot of properties that help the immune system even and a baby when they when a baby is given or an infant uh breast milk there’s just tons of healthy fats to help that baby develop and lastly the raw materials of fat build up your hormones so without fat you’re going to starve the body of those hormones and have all sorts of problems with fertility with u memory uh cognitive especially the stress hormones and the sex hormones your libido’s going to go down so we need these fats okay so that’s the benefit of fats and they also will satisfy you nutritionally and you’ll be less hungry so that’s important because you don’t want to be doing any type of program that you’re hungry and then the question the big question is this if I eat these fats will those fats convert to more fat that’s the big question that people have well yes or no it depends what type of fats that you consume the type of fats that I’m going to recommend are mainly uh medium chain triglycerides um which or smaller so we’re not doing the long chain triglycerides they’re just basically shorter fats that will show you how to get that in your diet that convert to energy and they don’t most of that does not even convert to Fat at all very small amounts if you consume large quantities but you’re going to be consuming the right amount of fats that’s going to convert to energy so what we want as an ideal scene is we want you to get the energy from the fat and we want you to get the energy from the the stored fat of your body okay and so that’s what we’re going to do we’re going to actually use some of that to run their body on and we’re going to use some of our stor fat as energy so you can lose the actual fat and we’ll make adjustments till it’s perfect and it’s true if your activity is very low and you’re a little bit older you may not be able to consume as many fats but you need some of this fat to be able to to supply the health of the body because the body if it’s in an unhealthy state if you try to lose weight unhealthily you’re not going to lose weight so our goal really is to make you healthy and part of that is to feed the body what it needs