If you say fat is OK, I guarantee you it's going to translate into lasagna, pizza, and hamburgers. But many people have already quit obsessing about fat. Jude Theriot, a chef and superintendent of schools in Lake Charles, La., tried to wring the fat out of his beloved Cajun cuisine when his weight ballooned to 380 pounds. He even wrote a low-fat cookbook, Cajun Healthy. You just have to live with what you came to the party with.
Body types are different.
Most people presume that eating fat will make you fat. That's true only in that we stockpile fat efficiently. The conventional wisdom is that body fat, particularly abdominal fat, increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and stroke. But that number refers to deaths caused by poor diet and inactivity, not fatness. The data on body fat's perils are ambiguous.