Let’s start with this: any diet can help you lose weight. The challenge is that when we’re aiming to lose weight quickly to lower cholesterol or improve our health, we often fall into the trap of popular diets. After a few weeks, many of us feel burned out from trying too hard, from constantly feeling hungry and deprived, and from seeing minimal results.

For example, how many times have you tried Keto? I personally gave it a shot at least seven times. Between the Keto flu, constant hunger, and slow progress, I ended up quitting every time. Each attempt left me feeling more frustrated and hopeless. What I didn’t realize was that Keto actually slows fat loss by more than half and increases cholesterol. Here’s an article with the study so you can check it out.

The key to lowering cholesterol to heart-attack-immunity levels is to adopt the diet followed by people in regions where heart disease is almost nonexistent. In these areas, cardiologists would have little work because heart disease is so rare. What’s their secret? They follow a whole-plant-food diet. Here’s an article explaining this diet in detail.

This means that people who are immune to heart disease are eating a low-fat, no-cholesterol diet. They don’t add fats like oil or butter to their meals and they consume minimal, if any, animal products.

The rule of thumb for weight loss is: the fat you eat is the fat you wear. It’s the same with cholesterol: the fat you eat will create plaque buildup in your arteries.

A whole-plant-food diet primarily consists of carbohydrates from whole plants. However, many of us have been conditioned to believe that carbs are the enemy, making it challenging to change this mindset.

​In a study comparing fat loss between a low-carb diet and a low-fat diet, 19 participants followed each diet for 6 days. The results were striking:

Yes... this means that a low-fat diet will burn 88.9% more body fat than a low-carb diet.

Here’s a comparison of results from popular diets: