The age-old question of What should we eat to be healthy and lose weight has been argued for decades, creating mass confusion while our waistlines have only gotten larger. At last, the final word on the smartest way to eat and live has arrived, from well-respected physician Steven Masley and renowned nutritionist Jonny Bowden-a team that originally came from vastly different schools of thought about diet and weight loss, but independently came to the same conclusion about why so many people continually fail to shed pounds and get healthy. For Masley and Bowden, it all comes back to a distinction far more important than calories vs. carbs or paleo vs. plant-based: smart fat vs. dumb fat.

Smart Fat is the result of their findings and is the first book to break fat into smart, dumb, and neutral categories while explaining the amazing properties of healthy fat, including its ability to balance hormones for increased energy and appetite control and its incredible anti-inflammatory benefits.

The solution for slimming down-and achieving long-term health as well-is to smart fat your meals, incorporating smart fats with unprocessed fiber, clean protein, and-most important-flavor. Masley and Bowden identify these smart fats, explain what not to eat, and provide a thirty-day meal plan and fifty recipes based on the magic formula of fat, fiber, protein, and flavor. They also caution readers on how to avoid doing dumb things with smart fats, like cooking oils at high temperatures that destroy their nutritive powers and make them unhealthy.

It’s time to unlearn what we think we know about food. Getting smart about fat and learning to smart-fat your meals is the only solution youll ever need.