Fat

Being fat as well as eating dietary fats are top concerns for many with eating disorders today.

Fat is a critical hormone-producing organ in our bodies. These hormones act on vascular tone control, immunity, reproduction, angiogenesis (development of new blood vessels), fibrinolysis (prevention of blood clots), homeostasis (or homedynamics), coagulation (blood clotting), glucose metabolism, bone growth and formation…And while this has been known in the research community for about 20 years, the dogma that predates these discoveries has much greater influence than the revelation that fat is not an organ to be shrunk, excised or damaged without serious consequences.

$3.7 billion dollars have been assigned to “obesity” and nutrition research in the US in 2024 and a further projected market size for the weight lost industry in the US in 2024 is pegged at $90 billion.

Neither your fat organ nor dietary fats are the enemy, but many people’s livelihoods depend upon those misconceptions remaining intact despite mounting irrefutable evidence these lies have done us all irreparable harm.

The Fat Series

Originally written in 2011, reviewed and updated with new references in 2016 and 2024. This series has nine installments and covers both dietary fats and fatness.

A look at our origins and our need for dietary fat. Read More
A look at our evolutionary dependence on water-based sources of dietary fat. Read More.
We Should Not Eat Fat…or Should We? Dietary fats do not generate fat in the body. Read More.
Dietary fats and confusion about low-fat diets. Read More.
Body Mass Index (BMI) explained. Read More.
Misconceptions about fatness, does eating make you fat? Read More.
The medical industrial complex and its development of the framework of "obesity" and medicalization of fat. Read More.
Misconceptions and errors about weight correlating to various disease states. Read More.
Continuing evidence on misconceptions and errors about weight correlating to various disease states. Read More.