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If you want to lose weight, you need to avoid fats in your diet, right? Wrong! Certain fats in your diet are vital for your health and weight loss. We’ll go into more detail with that later, but first, let’s look at how fats got such a bad reputation.  WHY AVOID FATS? Once upon a time, specialists believed that the only way to lose weight or be healthy was to cut out fatty foods from your diet. People around the world followed the advice but found that they struggled to maintain a healthy weight.  The millennium brought a lot of changes to our society, including the way we view fat. One of the most significant issues with low-fat diets, is people increased their sugar and processed carbohydrate intake to add flavour and calories to their diet. Guess what? Specialists noticed that sugar plays a huge part in weight gain.  Sugar is one of the most dangerous food groups around, but people often don’t realise the impact it has on their health. So, the fact is that fat isn’t th...