16 ■^ EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ROSEDALE DIET
Good Fat Lowers Leptin
It is a well-known fact that 90 percent of all dieters quickly regain the
weight they lost after dieting. I’m not surprised and I can’t say that I
blame them. The fact is, if you don’t solve the leptin problem, you won’t
solve the hunger problem, and if you don’t turn off the hunger switch,
almost anyone will eventually give in and eat. There is only one diet that
lowers leptin quickly and effectively—a diet that contains adequate
amounts of GOOD FAT and is low in starch and sugar—the Rosedale
Diet.
So, what is good fat?■ (^) Good fat does not stimulate a surge in leptin production—
rather it suppresses it.
■ (^) Good fat is not burned as sugar like carbohydrates and pro-
tein—it is burned as fat.
■ (^) Good fat stimulates the body to burn more fat.
What happens when we don’t eat enough good fat? Paradoxically,
we become fat because we can’t burn off excess fat.
■ (^) LIVE LONGER: BECOME A FAT BURNER
Every time you eat, you are feeding the trillions of cells throughout the
body. Our cells need fuel to repair and regenerate themselves, and to do
the body’s work. Our cells can eat two kinds of food—sugar or fat. Un-
fortunately, as we get older, our bodies become accustomed to burning
the one particular fuel used most often—sugar—and are less flexible
about burning the other fuel—fat.
Most people are good sugar burners because they’ve had a lot of ex-
perience doing so, due to our typically high sugar and starch diet. Even
when you are not eating, your body’s cells are still burning fuel to do
their work. When you are a sugar burner, your body continues to burn
sugar as its primary fuel and to sock away fat. I call this phenomenon