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Cutting all fat? Why a near-zero-fat diet backfires

Cutting all fat? Why a near-zero-fat diet backfires

Cutting every drop of ghee and oil sounds healthy, but it leaves you hungry and robs your vitamins. Keep a little fat, count its calories, and mind the deficit, not the fat.

14 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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Meet Riya. She cut all ghee and oil to lose weight fast. By 4 pm she was starving. So she ate three extra rotis. This is not the myth that eating fat turns straight into body fat. That is a different story. This is the mistake of cutting ALL fat. It backfires through hunger and nutrient gaps.

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