Once upon a time, the idea of eating fat to lose fat–or weight–seemed like a pretty silly thing to do; oxymoronic, if you will. I had some weight loss talk with co-workers recently and they thought I was out of my mind when I bashed the Food Pyramid–and this newer Food Pyramid–and recommended a much more simpler system of giving percentages to carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.

This article explains some more fat fighting tips including using fat to fight fat. My basic nutritional guideline is to adjust the percentage of carbs, proteins, and fats that I consume depending on what I’m trying to do–protein usually gets the largest share of the pie.

The seemingly insane idea of consuming 20% of your diet as fat isn’t so ridiculous when you understand a few things. It is true that a gram of fat has more than two times the calories of a gram of carbs or proteins. Obviously eating a lot of fat is not going to do you much good. However, limiting your fat consumption to some ridiculously low level by replacing it with more carbs is not going to help you either.

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