Why does fat taste so good?

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To lose fat, your body must use that fat as fuel. It will only use its stored fat as fuel if you deprive it of its present supply of fuel: blood glucose.

There are two ways to cut your body's glucose supply. You can starve, which is what low-calorie, low-fat dieting is. Alternatively, you can reduce the starches and sugars from which glucose is made, and make up the difference with another fuel: fat.

The latter approach has two advantages over the traditional calorie-controlled diet. First, you don’t have to go hungry. Second, by feeding your body on fats, your body will stop trying to find glucose and will naturally begin using its own stored fat.

When you eat carbs, your capacity to use fat is limited. Increasing blood glucose during dieting stimulates insulin release. Even at very low concentrations of insulin, fat synthesis is activated and break-up of fat is inhibited. This means that if you eat a carbohydrate-based low-fat diet, you force your body into a fat-making mode, not a fat-using mode.

Insulin inhibits the production of fat-burning enzymes, thereby preventing your body's fat cells from releasing their fat. This stops your body from burning your stored fat and makes it impossible for you to lose the weight you have put on.

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Similarly, our pre historic ancestors did not have Doritos or Coke. So, when you eat too much simple carbos you are working against the nature of your digestive system and you get fat.

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It's anthropology. Our digestive systems have not changed for about 50,000 years. Back then, fat from killed animals allowed you to survive. If you had no taste for fat you died and did not pass on your fat hating genes to the next generation.

Similarly, our pre historic ancestors did not have Doritos or Coke. So, when you eat too much simple carbos you are working against the nature of your digestive system and you get fat.

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