Dietary fat has been vilified for the last 20 years. We’ve been told that if we eat fat we will gain fat; but it’s just not true.
It is true that fat provides most of the fuel that our cells will burn for energy, but your body will burn carbohydrates before it will burn fat in an effort to keep your blood sugar levels down following a meal.
High blood sugar levels can cause all kinds of problems within the body by piling up in places where it doesn’t belong; such as your arteries, your liver, and elsewhere.
So your body’s prime directive is to get rid of any threat to your health, and getting rid of carbohydrates is priority number 1.
Now let’s talk about that meal; when you consume a carbohydrate and fat meal, the fat is delivered directly into your fat cells for storage while the body works on the carbohydrates.
The carbohydrates are broken down into glucose and delivered to the cells for energy and some for reserve energy.
After that meal, when your blood glucose levels and insulin levels begin to drop, that stored fat is liberated from your fat cells to be used for energy.
So in a sense, you get a little bit fatter following a meal, and you become a little bit thinner a couple of hours afterwards.
What causes you stop burning fat is insulin, and what causes insulin to be released is carbohydrates!
So to burn more body fat, just limit the amount of carbohydrates!
For more information on how your body processes Dietary Fat, please visit the Nutrition 101 Page!