Essential Fatty Acids are name given to types of fat that you need to eat. This is why they are called essential. Your body cannot make them, you must eat them. And these essential fatty acids are only found with fat that naturally occurs in whole food. What are these essential fatty acids used for in your body? Well, literally everything. Every cell in your body is partly made up of these essential fatty acids. To breathe, to have your heart beat, to run, walk, think, to make hormones, to remember anything, you need essential fatty acids for all of these and basically, to live. And if you don’t eat them in food you eat, your body will not function properly. And only place you can find essential fatty acids is in food that has naturally occurring fat in them. So if you try and cut fat out of your body, you will actually be causing harm and not really be doing anything to get rid of fat already in your body.

People get caught up in comparing old food they used to eat to new food they are now eating. Don't do this. Do not get caught up in trying to find something that tastes like your old favorite thing. Here is a little secret, natural healthy food will not taste same. It will taste better, if you let it. Let me explain what I mean with a story.