The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

Top 7 most common reactions to your high fat diet and how to respond.

A while back, I told you about the top eight most common reactions you get when people hear that you don't eat grains,

and I offered up some concise responses to those reactions.

It was well received, so I thought I'd do the same thing for your high-fat diet. If you thought having to

explain your grain-free diet was tough, explaining a high-fat diet, in particular a high-animal

fat diet, may seem even harder. At least with a grain-free diet, you're merely removing something that many hold near and dear to their hearts.

It's healthy and delicious, sure, but at least you're not adding something that will actively kill you.

Fat is the deadly thing for many people.

It's fat for crying out loud.

It's bad for you. Practically poison. Everyone knows it.

I mean, have you seen what fat down the kitchen drain does to your plumbing?

Actually, like the grain-free diet, explaining the high-fat diet is not that hard. I'll even promise you that there are ways to do it, explanations and answers that don't make you seem like a crazy person who hates his heart.

I make no such promises for those of you with a stick of butter with bite marks in it,

or a tub of coconut oil with a greasy spoon beside it

in your office desk, however. Now, let's get right to their questions and responses you can use.

Isn't all that fat going to glom onto your arteries? That isn't how it works.

Atherosclerosis is caused by oxidized LDL particles penetrating the arterial walls, inciting

inflammation and damaging the arterial tissue.

It is not caused by fat mechanistically attaching itself to the surface of the arteries, like fat in a kitchen pipe.

Also, it's not like you eat some butter and that butter gets directed straight into your bloodstream.

Your blood doesn't have oil slicks running through it or congealed droplets of grease gumming up the passageways.

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