Last week I shared a story of what’s possible in the realm of achieving spectacular cholesterol numbers without the use of medication.
Today I want to share with you that optimal weight is not only possible, but it’s achievable EVEN by people “of a certain age.”
Mind you, I personally dislike that expression, but I’m using it to illustrate how stupid it is to tell people that their health is destined to go downhill after a given age.
You can probably imagine how I felt when I received the following email:
““MORELLA!! WE DID IT!!!
I just called my doctor’s office and got my blood test results! My Cholesterol ratio went from 5.0 to 4.8, my HDL went up a point to 46 and my LDL went down 19 points to 139! So no more conversation about Statin drugs! Thank-you! Thank-you!! Thank-you!!!
— Judy, 57
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If you know me by now, you know that I'm the anti-diet nutrition coach. I've never counted calories or grams of anything because I just don't believe that's a natural way to eat.
In Part I, we discussed the fats that we need to eat more of and which we should avoid altogether.
Yes, fat is essential for health. So what happened?
For starters, nutrition science is a hugely imperfect field. It's impossible to completely isolate variables and determine an exact "causation."
Eat more fat. Period. Fat is necessary.
This article has two parts. Part I is about getting your fats straight. I give you four groups of fats and at the end, I list 4 simple guidelines to help you make some changes.