The longest, healthy living individuals throughout history – who lived to 80, 90 and even 100-plus years of age lived without suffering from obesity, diabetes, heart disease, dementia, osteoporosis or cancer. They never knew the concept of good fats, bad fats, low carb diets, glycaemic index, or any other modern health ‘fads’. WHAT THEY WERE EATING? The best available data suggest ancestors obtained about 35% of their dietary energy from natural fats, 35% from carbohydrates and 30% from protein. Saturated fats contributed approximately 7.5% of total energy.
Now, Indian diet is made up of upto 60 to 70% of carbohydrates and most of it is refined carbohydrates whereas our ancestor's carbohydrates were complex non-starchy like fruits and vegetables. Now there is phobia against fats since 1960. All fats are not bad. Natural fats are healthy and it’s very bad for good physical and brain…
