May 29, 2026 · 4 min· Better Off Daily
Better Off Daily- D16 - Myth: Eating Fat Makes You Fat
D16— Myth: Eating Fat Makes You Fat Dietary fat does not make you fat. The low-fat movement replaced fat with sugar, triggered an insulin epidemic, and set weight loss medicine back fifty years. Here's the correction. In this episode: Why the 1980s low-fat guidelines were built on selectively chosen data How insulin — not dietary fat — is the actual driver of fat storage What full-fat foods actually do to your metabolism How to read a food label and spot the sugar that replaced the fat
