Go Ahead, Eat Fat

In Parts 1 & 2 of this series on detoxifying your body, we savaged MSNBC for shallow reporting. In this, the last installment, we tell you why you should eat fat.

Humans adapted early on to primal fat-rich foods, such as nuts and seeds, consistent with hunter-gatherer societal development. Thus, it is very likely that we do better on these primal high-fat foods than our current low-fat staples such as bread and pasta.

The idea of wholesale cutting back on fat is fundamentally wrong.

Nothing is this black and white. There are good fats and bad fats. Good fats include HDL boosting fats found in nuts, olives, avocados soybeans and fish such as salmon or mackerel, both of which are high in Omega-3 fatty acids which have been proven to help prevent heart attacks.

In actuality, most people today are deficient in good fats.

Fats Are Good For You

Fats are necessary for our bodies to process fat soluble vitamins such as A, D, E and K, it constitutes all cellular membranes, and most of the brain tissues. It is the building block for sex hormones. It helps maintain healthy skin and hair and protect vital organs. Cutting back on these fats can be highly detrimental to your health.

Who Can You Trust?

It's always a good idea to beware of media outlets that value easy answers over harder truths. The truth: our food supply is not entirely healthy. Don’t expect major media players like MSNBC to talk about how some of their advertisers push garbage.

It's time to redefine nutrition and health. Time to realize that with all the toxins and chemicals that we put into our bodies, bodies that were not designed to process these massive amounts of unnatural substances, it only makes sense to give our bodies a break and rid our systems of as much of the build up of pollutants as possible. Time to realize that detoxification is a natural and historically sound process. Time to see detox as a tool that can help us rebalance our system and increase our ability to thrive and survive.