Hello and welcome to Zoe Recap, where each week we find the best bits from one of our podcast episodes to help you improve your health.

Today we're talking about fat.

Since founding Zoe, I've actually started eating more fat.

And that might surprise you, because for decades we've been told to fear it.

Fatty food will clog your arteries and send your cholesterol through the roof, right? It might surprise you, because for decades we've been told to fear it.

Fatty food will clog your arteries and send your cholesterol through the roof, right?

Well, it turns out it's not that simple.

How fat affects your health depends on a lot of factors, including the type of fat,

the food matrix, even how it's produced.

One thing is for sure, that single number on the front of a food packet isn't going to give you the full story.

I'm joined by Professor Sarah Berry to dig deeper into fat, uncovering which will harm us, which can help us heal.

One of the things that people often ask me is, well, how has your diet changed since you started Zoe?

And the answer is it's changed a lot. And one of the biggest ways it's changed is that I now eat a lot more fat than I did.

I was absolutely sure that fat was bad for me five years ago.

My dad was basically put on very low fat diet because he was told he had very high cholesterol

in his 30s, so this is now, you know, sort of 40, 45 years ago. And so that means that at home,

you know, we ate this very low fat diet. As a result, we of course ate lots of carbohydrates,

because that's what you do to fill it in. And of course, lots of refined carbohydrates,

pasta and bread and things like this. So I then did these Zoe tests, and it turns out that

actually my blood sugar control was really quite bad, and actually my blood fat control was much

better. And so that's what the advice is pushing. But I still feel really guilty when I eat cheese.

Like it's, even though I've seen this this and I also have noticed the way that actually my hunger is lower when I'm eating these high fat foods.

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