Ancestors ate high-fat megafauna (mammoths). Hunters today still target fat-rich animals--whales, seals, polar bears. Even Arctic fish are fat-rich. Large animals especially, Arctic species hunted in the Ice Ages, naturally carry a higher percentage of body fat. Significant inter-abdominal fat is also found in the omentum, mesentery, and around the kidneys. Healthy animals simply have more fat than starving ones.
Due to decades of processed food propaganda, people now discard nutritious subcutaneous and abdominal fat, consuming only lean muscle. Discarding this fat is not an ancestral practice.
Avoiding animal fat sacrifices vital nutrients--DHA, EPA, vitamins D3, K2, A, E, choline, cholesterol, and saturated fat--essential for neurological function and child brain development.
Weight stalls often stem from a "dirty carnivore" diet, [dairy, artificial sweeteners]. When issues arise, people wrongly blame high fat, forgetting high-fat carnivore initially drove their health and weight loss. Switching to low-fat risks malnutrition and protein poisoning, which can result in weight loss, but of the expensive health. As health suffers, people blame long-term ketosis on the poor health effects, even though this is against all the best long-term peer-reviewed evidence. See my YouTube video, Is Ketosis Harmful? for more.
Remember that your hormones like testosterone and estrogen are made out of cholesterol, and avoiding fat will make all hormones suffer. Eating carbs raises insulin and insulin resistance, which suppresses testosterone in men and estrogen in women.
Fat is an essential nutrient and is good for you. Don't avoid fat just because it's trendy and you don't want to give up dairy or sweets.
That is good for you, so eat the damn fat.
