Tag: Saturated Fat
Dietary Fats: Types, Benefits, and Their Importance in Your Diet
Fats are essential to your diet, but not all fats are the same. Understanding healthy and unhealthy dietary fats can help you make better food choices. The Bulletproof lifestyle emphasizes the importance of healthy fats for energy and brain function. Learn about saturated vs unsaturated fats and how to include...
Is Saturated Fat Bad for You? Here’s What You Need to Know
Since the 1960s, saturated fat has had a reputation for causing heart disease and obesity. It turns out, that’s not true. Saturated fat’s reputation is thanks to incomplete research and premature conclusions from government policymakers. There was even a bit of corporate deception from the sugar industry to make saturated...
Is Fat Good for You? Everything You Need to Know About Dietary Fats
Historically, saturated fat has gotten a bad rap. In the 1960s, a campaign from the sugar industry paid scientists to blame saturated fat—not sugar—as a significant cause of heart disease, which spooked people. But here’s the skinny on fat: It’s necessary for the body to function correctly. It’s one of...
Which Beef is Best: Wagyu, Aged, or Grass-Fed?
Have you tried Japanese wagyu beef? It is a type of beef designed to melt in your mouth because the muscle is completely striated with fat. Wagyu beef is so decadently fatty that you can cut it with a fork. Taste-wise, it almost has more in common with foie gras...
4 Healthy Fats for High Heat Cooking
If you want to make a meal more satisfying, a surefire way is to add fat. Bulletproof fats are nutrient-dense, great for you, and – perhaps most importantly – tasty. That said, not all Bulletproof fats are suitable for all types of cooking. For example, Brain Octane and MCT Oil are...
The Bulletproof Guide to Omega 3 Vs. Omega 6 Fats
The type of fat you eat is key to your performance — that’s why the Bulletproof Diet suggests eating 50-70% of your calories from fat every day. With that in mind, here’s a quick primer on different types of fat, with a particular focus on Omega 3s, Omega 6s, and...
Greg’s Butter Experiment: Did Butter Replace Statins For Him?
Statins are one of the most used drugs in the history of human existence. In 2008, $12.4 billion dollars worth of Lipitor was sold. In 2000, almost half of all patients with dyslipidemia (bad blood results) were taking a statin (this is despite a lack of clinical trials showing they...
It’s NOT The Calories – Quality is What Counts
When it comes to nutrition and mainstream magazines with lots of ads from junk food companies, journalists sometimes seem to be oblivious to the research they write about. Take Time Magazine in particular. In 1985 they tried to convince you cholesterol and saturated fat caused heart disease, now in the...