don’t run to the cookie jar between meals.
Finally, there is another, more practical
reason for including a healthy amount of fat in
our meals—calories.
We want you to eat enough calories to
maintain a healthy body weight and activity
levels. But think about the way you used to eat
versus the way we’re recommending that you
eat. You used to eat lots of calorie-dense
carbohydrates (like grains, legumes, sugars,
and processed foods). Now, you’ve replaced
those with vegetables and fruit, which are
comparative caloric lightweights. Which
means your new diet is missing a bunch of
calories—and we’ve got to supply them
somehow.
We’re not going to add more
carbohydrates to the diet—you couldn’t (and
don’t need to) eat enough veggies and fruit to
fill the hole, and we’re not about to resort to
unhealthy food choices just for the calories.