{"id":48843,"date":"2016-03-18T04:47:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T08:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=48843"},"modified":"2016-03-21T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T20:36:24","slug":"dr-mark-hyman-dietary-fat-does-not-make-you-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/fr\/journal\/dr-mark-hyman-dietary-fat-does-not-make-you-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Mark Hyman: Dietary Fat Does Not Make You Fat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Mark Hyman will appear at Wanderlust Hollywood on March 19 for the launch of his new book, <\/em>Eat Fat, Get Thin. Get tickets here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Food controls everything. Food affects the expression of your genes that cause or prevent disease. In other words, food literally turns on health genes or disease genes. It tells those genes to store or burn fat. Food influences your hormones, your brain chemistry, your immune system, and even your gut flora.<\/p>\n

\"510iug9zlvl.sx320bo12c2042c2032c200\"Before we can change our health, we must shift our way of thinking about food. Our relationship with fat, in particular, must change. In my new book, Eat Fat, Get Thin<\/a><\/em>, I\u2019ve gone through the latest science and research on fat and what it does to our bodies, and what I\u2019ve found is that the war on fat needs to end. As research proves, dietary fat does not make you fat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dietary fat deeply impacts health and wellbeing: Being deficient in healthy fat has an impact on our emotional and overall health. Fat deficiencies affect our hormones, immune system, digestive health, skin health, weight, and ability to deal with stress.<\/p>\n

In fact, fat deficiencies can adversely affect our mood, cognitive health, behavior, and overall brain function, which makes perfect sense considering our bodies (including our brains) are made up of fat. Every cell membrane is partly made of fat. We must have healthy dietary fat for our body to function properly.<\/p>\n

Historically, we ate mostly wild foods, which are very rich in omega-3 fats (like wild fish and animals and wild plants), and very limited amounts of inflammatory omega-6 foods.<\/p>\n

What went wrong? The government\u2019s dietary advice based on a few misguided studies created very real, unintended consequences, evident from the amount of chronic diseases plaguing this country. This advice led to the creation of the Food Pyramid, which told us to eat mostly processed carbohydrates and sugars.<\/p>\n

One thing I do<\/em> admire about the Food Pyramid is its simplicity. So I built my very own food pyramid, based on the principles of the \u201c<\/strong>Pegan Diet<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong>\u201d which combines the best of a Paleo and vegan diet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is the way that I\u2019ve been eating for years, and I\u2019ve never felt better. Here are some tips on following a \u00ab\u00a0Pegan\u00a0\u00bb diet.<\/p>\n

1. Focus on the glycemic load of your diet.<\/strong> This can be done on a vegan or Paleo diet, but is harder to do on a purely vegan diet. Focus on more protein and fats, such as nuts (but not peanuts), seeds (flax, chia, hemp, sesame, pumpkin), coconut, avocados, sardines, olive oil. And lots of non-starchy veggies.<\/p>\n