Hello and welcome to the Urban Vitality blog. My name is John Limpus and today we're going

to be talking about a fairly controversial topic. We're going to be talking about fat,

dietary fat. Now I'm lucky enough to have one of the, what I would say one of the leading

people to speak to on this topic really is US personal trainer of the year in 2008. He

has, in the early part of his career, he actually had his clients wearing t-shirts, saying

my personal trainer has told me to eat more fats. On top of all that, as an athlete competed

three times in the Ironman World Championships, as well as having two kids, two twin boys,

and competing as a bodybuilder at college level as well. The lights have been greenfoot on

the cool, hello, Ben. Hey, thanks for having me on.

That's quite a big intro, but the main thing is all the people owned by Tarty would know

about you because of your reverse food pyramid. I wanted to talk about that today because

obviously the conventional food pyramid has got fat right up the top as the kind of

nasty thing that you should avoid and yet your food pyramid has got it right at the foundation

level as one of the things you should be getting the majority of your calories from. Obviously

that's quite a controversial standpoint compared to conventional beliefs. I mean, where

did you come up with that viewpoint and why do you believe so passionately that most

people do need to increase the amount of fats in their diet then?

It's only a relatively new phenomenon that we have been led to believe that a low-fat

diet is superior for anything from weight loss to health. People have known for thousands

of years and have had as a part of their diet for thousands of years healthy fat from

animal sources, fat from vegetable sources, that provides a very concentrated and rich

source of energy in the diet. It provides building blocks for your cell membranes, for your hormones,

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