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Originally posted by Dr. Davis on 2019-01-07 on the Wheat Belly Blog, sourced from and currently found at: Infinite Health Blog. PCM forum Index of WB Blog articles.
One of the most common mistakes people make when starting out on the Wheat Belly lifestyle is to remain fearful of fats. They continue to hold onto old misconceptions such as “fats raise cholesterol,” or “fat causes heart disease,” or “fats are calorie-dense and therefore make you fat.” None of this is true, no more true than “healthy whole grains” are a key to overall health. (The rationale dashing all these misconceptions is discussed in detail in Wheat Belly Total Health.)
This accounts for why some people, even after removing the gliadin-derived opiates that come from wheat and related grains, continue to experience hunger or cravings—it’s due to not taking in enough fats. The solution: get more fats and oils.
We avoid oils sourced from grains, of course, especially corn oil, since there will be corn protein residues that can mimic some of the effects of wheat gliadin, not to mention modern humans are so miserably overloaded with the omega-6 fraction/linoleic acid of oils (though linoleic acid is one of the essential fatty acids–avoiding it entirely is fatal, but you can get plenty from meats, nuts, and non-grain seeds). We avoid mixed vegetable oils, soybean oil (like corn, it can have protein residues, although the fatty acid composition is not that bad), canola (increasingly related to health problems, such as hypertension, possibly due to the high trans fatty acid content created by the high-temperature process used to remove the erucic acid toxin), grapeseed oil (high omega-6).
Here are some strategies that can help add back the healthy fats you may be lacking:
Getting sufficient fat in your diet is satiating, cuts off cravings and eliminates impulsive eating behavior, accelerates weight loss from visceral fat, helps reduce blood sugar and triglycerides, raises HDL, helps get rid of small LDL particles that lead to heart disease (not cholesterol, part of the semi-fiction of the lipid-heart hypothesis), subdues the after-meal (postprandial) flood of lipoproteins into the bloodstream, helps reverse fatty liver, and is part of the overall strategy to maintain brain health.
So go on and have a feast on fats.