OPTIONAL MIDAFTERNOON SNACK: Fruit Cup
DINNER: Stir-Fried Scallops with MushroomsFat
It’s essential to incorporate “natural” fat in the right amounts into your diet to
stabilize insulin levels and other hormones. How much fat should you eat? On
the Perfect 10 Diet, 40 percent of your diet should come from fat, but don’t
overdo it. Too much fat (say, 50 percent) is bad for growth hormone, or HGH,
since excess fat, again, is its enemy. At 40 percent or a little less, you will feel
less hungry and more energetic and dynamic, and you’ll lose weight.
However, incorporating fat back into your diet does not mean turning to
manufactured vegetable oils or tub margarines, which are promoted as
cholesterol-free. Yes, your blood cholesterol levels may be deceptively lower,
but you’re more likely to suffer from heart disease and cancer.
On the Perfect 10 Diet, you’ll increase your intake of healthy natural fat. The
buzzword here is “natural.” At the same time, you’ll eliminate refined carbs in
order to rebalance your diet. You’ll eat more nuts instead of cookies or potato
chips, and more olives instead of pretzels. This will dramatically reduce your
insulin secretions, balance your glucagon, and ultimately lead to weight loss.
Remember, the Perfect 10 Diet focuses on balancing nutrients rather than
promoting one over another. That word that you’ve learned to hate, fat, you must
learn to love. By eating more “good” fat and fewer “bad” carbohydrates, you
will lose weight while improving your health. Fat is an essential macronutrient
that must be appropriately included in your diet to achieve optimal, perfect 10
health.
A lack of natural fat in your diet can only lead to disease. Fat promotes the
building blocks of brain cells in children, promotes nerve cell growth, and assists
with the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins K, E, D, and A. Fat provides you with
more energy and stamina, and you’ll be less likely to overeat. Fat is often
blamed as a cause of obesity because it provides almost twice the calories of
carbohydrates and protein per gram, but it’s just not true. Actually, fat spares the
protein from being used for energy, so you’re able to build chiseled muscles.
Three Kinds of Fat
• Saturated
• Monounsaturated
• Polyunsaturated