It's Diet, Not Exercise

There is a myth out there that only if we eat less and exercise more we will lose fat. Unfortunately, this is not the case, no matter what all the "experts" say.

It takes a big workout to burn off a few calories. And then once we're done in the gym we have a big appetite. And so we eat more to kill our appetite.

If you eat the right foods and stay moderately active you can take in pretty much all the calories you want.

The right foods - basically - are saturated fats and leafy green vegetables. The wrong foods are simple carbohydrates and vegetable oils.

Moderate activity is better than a hard workout in the gym because it tones the body and keeps it flexible. Keeping the body moving in a sustained way over a longer period of time is part of nature's design when it comes to imparting good health.

Modern day efforts to demonize saturated fats are puzzling because they are so integral to the body's structure and function.

Such a wrongheaded assumption can only be chalked up to ego and hubris. "Experts," invoking junk science buy into a line of thought and end up lacking sufficient humility or open-mindedness to back down from their claims.