Embrace the Fat

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Look at the quality and quantity of your food and reap the benefits.
Look at the quality and quantity of your food and reap the benefits.

Embrace the Fat

Check out this recent article in the New York Times – A Call for a Low-Carb Diet That Embraces Fat.

We know it resonated with a number of you as a lot of your passed it on to one of the coaches.  Thank you for doing that!

Many of you have embraced a Paleo approach to diet during your time at Roots.  You’ve taken it a step further by understanding how your body reacts and performs under specific quantities of carbohydrate, protein, and fat.  While your results have been staggering over the years – lost body fat, increased muscle mass, better blood markers, increased performance, and elimination of the need for certain medications – the mainstream media and science is always out there with statements that tell you you’re doing it all wrong.

The following article excerpt should make you smile!

“People who avoid carbohydrates and eat more fat, even saturated fatlose more body fat and have fewer cardiovascular risks than people who follow the low-fat diet that health authorities have favored for decades, a major new study shows.”

Full Article Here: A Call for a Low-Carb Diet That Embraces Fat.

1 Response
  1. Dizon

    “While the low-fat group did lose weight, they appeared to lose more muscle than fat…… ‘They actually lost lean muscle mass, which is a bad thing'”
    DOH!