It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

all of the fiber, which would normally slow the absorption of the sugar in whole fruit. More sugar ...

CHAPTER 15: THE RIGHT FATS “I have always been an active, healthy girl, but in my thirties (after a bout ...

The last big category on our “makes you healthier” list includes many different foods with one thing in ...

don’t run to the cookie jar between meals. Finally, there is another, more practical reason for including a ...

We’re not going to add more and more protein, either. We want you to eat only as much protein as you need ...

limited. The average person can store only enough glycogen to perform about ninety minutes of hig ...

playing with our children, or cleaning the house). There are some major benefits to being “fat adapted,” ...

got the best of both worlds. Your body will still be able to run on carbohydrate for fuel when you re ...

resistance and leptin resistance can be profoundly damaging. Eating too much fat only adds fuel to ...

Of course, not all fats are good fats. (Sure, we all know that ... but we’re also certain that our roster ...

make margarine and other fake forms of butter. Ingesting industrial trans fats can double your ...

FATS Monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs), are the most popular fats in town. Their health-promoting properties ...

addition, other compounds in foods containing high levels of monounsaturated fats (such as olive oil) ma ...

cooking—not your best options, but certainly better than the seed oils you evicted from your pantry a f ...

SATURATED FATS, OH MY! The next category of fats that encourage optimal health are saturated fatty acids ...

burgers are unhealthy, but it’s not fair to blame the saturated fat content. We’ve already mentioned some of ...

As we’ve already explained, all foods are a complex blend of nutrients—and meat is no exception. Don’t fall ...

This is the big one, folks. The big myth. The big lie. And we’re about to expose it. Keep an open mind, ...

Got it? This massive study-of-studies published by a highly respected scientific organization concluded that ...

Ready for a summary of what we’ve learned? You don’t have to be afraid of saturated fat. LEAN MEATS Remember ...