As an individual who desires a lean, attractive and “fat-free” appearance, you most likely have the idea that your ultimate dietary goal is to limit your consumption of fat as much as possible. However, diets that rely on the radical elimination of fat consumption actually hinder your fat burning capacity. Allow me to share 5 excellent points why.

1) Diets low in fat will inherently have a higher sugar level. Each gram of fat contains 9 calories so if you limit your fat intake, you will need to make up the calories by eating more porteins and carbohydrates.

For many people, this can mean upping their consumption of fruits, breads, pastas as well as other items that are low in fat yet very high in sugar. Although your body requires a certain amount of glucose to fuel its daily tasks, any excess that isn’t needed and cannot be stored in the muscles for future use will simply be stored as fat.

2) Diets that are lower in fat boost food cravings as well as pangs of hunger. Dietary fat not only makes you feel more full after eating, but also puts your blood sugar levels and insulin production into overdrive due to your carbohydrate consumption being naturally higher. Constant rising and falling of blood sugar not only lowers your energy and increases your appetite, but it increases your body’s rate of fat storage as well.

3) Testosterone levels in the body are lowered by diets low in fat. Most people are aware that testosterone plays a large role in the process of building lean muscle tissue, but testosterone in itself also has direct fat burning effects. Testosterone production can be majorly altered when the consumption of fat in your diet is significantly reduced.

4)) By eating low fat foods it increases the rate of body fat storage. Your body is a far more complex and intricate “machine” than you might think, and it has all sorts of defensive survival mechanisms in place to deal with stressful situations. If you drastically lower your consumption of fat, you body interprets this as a possible survival risk because fat is a basic energy source. A slowdown in fat-burning metabolism will result as the body makes necessary adjustments to maintain the present fat reserves, so, fat storage is accelerated by a rise in hormones.

5) Diets that are low in fat are not good for your health. Dietary fat is a requirement for maintaining a healthily functioning body. Forget about your concerns with storing body fat; if you deprive your body of the fat it needs to keep you alive and healthy, you will inevitably cause problems.

Fat itself only becomes an adversary when you eat the wrong categories of fats and you overdo your fat intake. However, it must be noted that an excess of any nutrient will lead to body fat storage.

Saturated fats, such as those found in animal meats and are solid in temperature should be limited. The majority of your fats being taken in should be of the healthier, unsaturated variety. These are typically found in plant sources and are liquid at room temperature. Most of the fat a person consumes in one day should be in the form of this good fat, the benefits of which include fat burning, the building of muscles, and better health in general.

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