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Hey podcast listeners, this is Ben Greenfield and before we go over much at all today, I've got a question for you.

Why should you eat fat?

In other words, is there any good reason ever to increase your consumption of fat?

And if so, if your personal trainer, your doctor, your nutritionist told you that you need more fat in your diet,

why would anybody who knows anything about nutrition actually tell you to eat more fat?

Well, I want you to tell me, is there any good reason to eat fat?

Vegetable fats, animal fats, any kind of fat.

So we're talking omega-3s, monoinsaturated fatty acids, trans fatty acids, hydrogenated fatty acids.

There's a lot of information out there about fat.

And I'm going to give away one of the brand new, my personal trainer told me to eat more fat,

t-shirts, to the person who can give me the most compelling, best reason to eat more fat.

All you got to do is surf over to BenGreenfieldFitness.com.

Go down to the blog post, it was one of the more recent ones posted on May 11th.

And answer that question in the comments, is there really any good reason to eat more fat?

I'm looking forward to hearing if there really is.

And again, best answer is going to get one of the brand new Midnight Black and Line Green,

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