Myth: Dietary Fat Clogs Your Arteries and Makes You Fat
Truth: Low-fat = high-carb. That advice gave us the obesity epidemic.
Healthy fats—animal fats, eggs, butter—don’t make you fat. They support your hormones, keep you full, and help you burn fat.
If you think:
- Juice is hydration
- Chocolate milk is a protein shake
- Cereal is clean eating
- Grains are the base of the food pyramid
You’re not following science. You’re following 1950s marketing and 1980s food lobby propaganda—designed to keep you addicted, inflamed, and dependent.
“Cereal is fortified with vitamins!”
Fat logic: “It’s basically medicine in a bowl.”
Reality: It’s “fortified” because they stripped all the nutrients out—then sprinkled synthetic ones back in like fairy dust.
The sugar and starch hit your bloodstream faster than cocaine in a Wall Street bathroom. You’re hungry again in an hour. Rinse, repeat.
If cereal is breakfast, diabetes is dessert.
“Whole grains are heart-healthy!”
Fat logic: “I switched from Frosted Flakes to granola and brown bread!”
Reality: Whole grains are better than white flour—like getting punched is better than getting stabbed.
They’re still high in carbs, spike insulin, and are loaded with anti-nutrients like phytic acid that block mineral absorption.
Most cereals are ultra-processed, sweetened, and marketed with cartoon animals or fake doctor endorsements.
Translation: You’re not eating health food. You’re eating corporate-approved kibble.
“Chocolate milk is the perfect post-workout drink.”
Fat logic: “It has protein and calcium, bro.”
Reality: It has more sugar than soda—up to 30g per cup. The protein is fine, but you’re pairing it with an insulin bomb.
Unless you’re lean, insulin sensitive, and lifting hard—it’s not fueling recovery. It’s fueling your gut.
Translation: Chocolate milk works great if you’re a 12-year-old playing peewee hockey. Otherwise, you’re just getting fat with a straw.
“Fruit juice is healthy because it’s fruit!”
Fat logic: “It’s basically a salad you can drink!”
Reality: Fruit juice is sugar water with a vitamin halo. One glass of OJ has the sugar of 4 oranges—without the fiber.
It spikes insulin, crashes your energy, and leaves you hungrier. Fructose hits your liver like alcohol—causing fatty liver and insulin resistance.
Translation: If fruit is nature’s candy, juice is nature’s crack.
Bonus Round: “Healthy snacks”
- Granola bars: Candy bars in yoga pants.
- Trail mix: Fat + sugar bombs you eat while sitting.
- Smoothies: Fruit juice milkshakes with a vitamin label.
Translation: Just because it has “natural” on the label doesn’t mean it’s not naturally making you fat.
“Oatmeal is a healthy breakfast!”
Fat logic: “It lowers cholesterol! It’s fiber!”
Reality: Oatmeal is a high-GI carb bomb. Instant oats digest faster than sugar.
Most people drown it in brown sugar, raisins, banana, and milk—making it a dessert disguised as breakfast.
Translation: Oatmeal is a carb bomb in a cardigan. Fiber doesn’t make it holy—it just makes your colon busy.
“Fish and chips is healthy—it’s fish!”
Fat logic: “Omega-3s cancel out the deep fry!”
Reality: That “fish” is cheap white fillet, breaded and deep-fried in seed oil sludge. The fries? Carbs + trans fats + heart disease.
Translation: That fish ain’t swimming in your arteries. It’s drowning you in visceral fat and inflammation.
“Gatorade is healthy because electrolytes!”
Fat logic: “I need to rehydrate after walking to the fridge.”
Reality: Gatorade was made for athletes in Florida heat. A bottle has 34g of sugar—like soda with sodium.
Translation: It’s just sugar water with corporate permission.
“Protein bars and shakes are healthy snacks!”
Fat logic: “It’s protein, so it’s fine!”
Reality: Most protein bars are candy bars with whey and soy shoved in. Loaded with maltitol, sucralose, seed oils, and gut-wrecking fibers.
Gas station protein shakes? Syrupy sludge with 5g of protein and 30g of carbs.
Translation: You’re not eating like a bodybuilder. You’re eating like a diabetic toddler with a gym membership.
“Margarine and plant-based is healthier than butter and meat!”
Fat logic: “Saturated fat is bad!”
Reality: That logic is from the same era as asbestos and lead paint. Margarine = hydrogenated seed oil plastic. Plant meat = pea protein, sawdust, and 78 additives.
Butter, beef, and eggs? That’s what your great-grandparents thrived on.
Translation: If margarine is your health food, you might as well eat sunscreen and call it a salad.
“Sugary lattes aren’t that bad—it’s just coffee!”
Fat logic: “I need my pick-me-up!”
Reality: Your “coffee” has more sugar than a donut—plus oat milk, whipped cream, caramel drizzle, and a selfie.
It’s not caffeine you’re addicted to—it’s the dopamine hit from dessert in a cup.
Translation: You’re not sipping energy. You’re sipping liquid self-sabotage in a $7 cup.
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Jon Stone
Founder, ironresilience.net
Discipline, Not Genetics
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