#1 Dietary fat becomes body fat. Overweight is not a result of total calorie intake. Linda Page explains that fatter people actually tend to eat fewer calories. Saturated fat is a far more common cause of excess body fat than carbohydrates. And your body uses up more energy to convert carbohydrates to body fat than to convert dietary fat to body fat. Fatty foods actually do go straight from our mouth to our thighs... and are likely to be stored there. Carbohydrate calories are hardly ever stored as fat (but sugary carbohydrates DO raise your insulin levels... your body's signal to make fat).
#2 Fat consumption is linked to cancer. Ovarian, breast, cervical, and colon cancer are especially linked to a high-fat diet.
#3 Saturated fat raises blood cholesterol levels. Saturated fat has the strongest influence on blood cholesterol because it affects the way your liver works...the liver is less able to remove it normally from the bloodstream, allowing it to accumulate on artery walls. Your body's own cholesterol occurs in conjunction with healthy fatty acids. Dietary cholesterol is found only in animal foods, including dairy products. Plant foods, except for tropical oils, do not contain dietary cholesterol.
#4 Environmental toxins accumulate in body fat. Recent UCLA pollution studies show that environmental poisons accumulate in our fatty tissues. Food animals were found to be "bio-concentrater's" of pollutants...pesticides, sprays and toxins could build up over an animal's lifetime. Vegetables and plant foods may contain these chemical toxins, but the levels are low compared to those in animals. The human body stores toxins in fatty tissue. Reducing animal fat in your diet means you'll shed excess pounds and get rid of many accumulated chemical poisons.
Cooking For Healthy Healing -- Linda Page
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