And nutritionally, fat is also beneficial. It helps your body assimilate the fat-soluble vitamins, which are otherwise inaccessible, it provides necessary fatty acids that your body can’t manufacture, and does lots more. I believe it also helps you eat smaller quantities of food, if you’re choosing the right foods, like ones high in nutrients, not junk foods which leave you feeling crummy and weird, but still hungry.

For example, if you pop yourself a bag of fat-free microwave popcorn, with whatever weird stuff in there that helps it pop and the synthetic flavors that don’t really taste like butter, you can eat the whole bag and still feel like your stomach is empty, and also feel like you’ve put liquid plastic in your pipes. Or you can get out a heavy saucepan and make some real popcorn with oil and salt and be satisfied with a small bowl full AND be happy that you ate something real and don’t feel weird after. You consume the same amount of calories with the whole bag of micro popcorn and the one bowl of real popcorn, but one makes you happy and the other doesn’t.

I’m all about real.

I hate cauliflower but I’ll give this a try anyhow.