Arvind Ashok: Fitness & Nutrition Simplified

I have been avoid­ing this post for a while. Why? Because while this post says some­thing that is a core part of my nutri­tion phi­los­o­phy, (It is not just me by the way. It is some­thing that every legit fit­ness expert knows and lives by) it is def­i­nitely some­thing that is con­tro­ver­sial. Unfortunately.

Unless you are this guy, you should eat dietary fat to get a chick like this. If you are a chick like this, you are already eat­ing dietary fat!

Dietary fat is great for you! Really. This is not meant to be a long post with tens of links and research arti­cles cited — I don’t want to write like that. Instead, I will write a few short posts about this over the course of the year, and so here goes.

One of the biggest fac­tors that shapes an infants life is nutri­tion a.k.a breast milk. The longer one is breast-fed, the health­ier the infant is. The advan­tages are just numer­ous, and for­mula is not a replace­ment for breast milk! I am sure you are all in agree­ment with me. So, what is the com­po­si­tion of human milk? By calo­ries it is 39% carbs, 54% fat and 7% pro­tein! More than half of it is fat! The brain, in infants, accounts for 50% of calo­rie con­sump­tion in infants, and only 20% in adults. So, adults should require even less carbs, as the brain feeds on glu­cose. So, if we were to have an adult ver­sion of human milk, it would be 20% carbs, 64% fat, and 16% pro­tein. QED.

I will talk about the paleo diet, the set­backs caused by neolithic diets, the diets of ani­mals (omni­vores, car­ni­vores and her­bi­vores) to solid­ify this point. But not yet. Once again — dietary fat is essen­tial and should form the major­ity of your diet.