Are there really diets that work? Who would have guessed it? After years of North Americans adopting low fat diet plans, a curious thing happened... we all got FATTER. And something tells me that this wasn't exactly what we were going for.

The thinking has been along these lines:

"We're all too fat, because we eat too much fat. And if we ate less fat, then we wouldn't be so fat."

I mean, when you think about it, it sounds reasonable enough. And really, I can't blame people for believing such lies, because I myself believed it for a very long time (along with many other lies that I believed before I finally was able to lose 90 pounds).

But unfortunately, this overly simplistic notion just simply isn't true at all. You see, one of the big reasons that North Americans are so fat, is because we actually don't eat ENOUGH fat.

Huh?

I know what you're thinking. But hear me out here. The problem is that we all don't eat enough of the right kinds of fat. In the same way that all calories are NOT created equal, and in the same way that all carbs are not created equal, so also all fats are not created equal. Some fats are really good for you, some are harmful, and some are downright poisonous and toxic!

If a person was to eat mostly bad and toxic fats, weight gain (and a whole host of other problems) are absolutely inevitable.

You see, fat isn't just "fat" that your body either stores or burns up. Rather, different types of fats have different effects on your body because these fats also send messages to your body. Good fats tell your body to speed up fat burning, and bad fats (and really bad fats) tell your body to slow down the fat burning process (because you were never meant to consume such fats, and so your body doesn't know what to do with them).

In the same way that different calories "talk to your genes" in different ways, so also different fats talk to your body in different ways, and these "communications" have tremendous health implications.

So what's the take home message here? Forget low fat diet plans. They completely miss one of the most important points for permanent health and weight loss: namely, that fats "talk to your genes". Visit my site below to learn more specifics about how different fats communicate with your body.