Weight loss: does dietary fat help burn fat?

Self-tutoring about diet and weight loss: the tutor investigates the idea that eating fat helps burn fat.

Although the idea that eating fat helps fat loss might seem surprising, it’s apparently valid, provided the eater subtracts carbohydrates to accommodate increased fat intake.

A few reasons are proposed for why eating fat (rather than carbohydrates) can help lose fat:

1. Eating fat can increase the rate at which the body burns calories.
2. Eating fat for energy, rather than carbohydrates, decreases insulin levels. Higher insulin levels prevent fat burning, while low levels of it promote fat burning.
3. Your predominant energy food becomes the one your body predominantly runs on. If it’s fat, your body’s hormones adjust to use it – both incoming and stored.

It could be mentioned here that some fats are better than others. I’ve come to believe that trans fats are to be avoided. (I also try to avoid processed snacks.) However, whether fat is dairy or vegetable oil matters little to me. Some people have more specific opinions.

Source:

fatforweightloss.com.au

bodybuilding.com

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