Can I eat fried foods?

[kris]

If you can figure out a nutritional value for fried foods, please let me know, because as far as I can see, all it does is increase your LDL (low density lipoproteins), which is not good. If you would like to gain weight really quickly, and if you would like to gain extra body fat, fried foods are your ticket. They may taste great, but are of little value nutritionally. And, once you stop eating them for a while, and go back to fried foods, you will notice just how bad they are for you-you will become physically ill! I have seen it hundreds of times in the clients who spend 6 weeks at our retreat then go out to eat on the way home-they have a very rough flight!

Of course, some oils are necessary and good. Studies have shown that you should consume a minimum of 10 percent of your overall caloric intake from fats if you are following a healthy food regimen and not overeating. Generally, unless you have excessively dry skin or severe constipation (in which case, you are most likely under hydrating) your diet does not need to consist of more than 10 percent of your overall caloric intake. Furthermore, your intake should consist of unsaturated fats, better known as “healthy fats” which simply means they are not solid at room temperature. If it is oily rather than solid (olive oil vs. animal fat) at room temperature, it would typically be considered a healthier alternative to saturated fats. Fried foods typically contain more than 40% of the calories from fat and are typically solid at room temperature!

Furthermore, fat slows down metabolic rate. You’ve probably heard the expression: “Oil and water don’t mix.” Well, that’s true. And your stomach has an aqueous environment…that means it’s mostly water. When fats go into your stomach, they kind of slow things down because they take up space but don’t get metabolized in the stomach. Therefore, they need to keep moving, in between everything else, kind of bottle necking everything. They pass onto the small intestines and colon, where bile salts are released in greater quantity. These bile salts are really responsible for digesting fats and oils. Similarly to the way dish soap works on grease versus the way hand soap works on grease on pans.

In addition to slowing down metabolic rate, your body typically stores the fat you eat as fat. Studies have shown that your body can get good at metabolizing fats by consuming more dietary fats. However, there is a limit to that (otherwise no one would be overweight) and your body may have a much lower threshold. Studies have also shown that most people digest dietary fat into fatty acids and then, their body transports it directly into a fat cell.

Let me use the following analogy to explain this: Fats are essentially stored energy (visualize stuff in boxes). You are moving from one storage facility to another. You have two choices:
1. Move the boxes from your original storage unit into a moving truck and simply unload all the boxes into your new storage.
2. Unpack each item from each box and into the moving truck individually and then repack each item from the moving truck into new boxes in your new storage unit.

Your body tries to be as efficient as possible and therefore chooses option 1 every time.

Therefore, when you consume dietary fat, it slows down your metabolic rate and your body stores most of it to be efficient.

• This topic was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by kris.

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