What the fat? : leaner, fitter, faster on low carb, healthy fat - switch on fat burning and unlock your potential / Prof Grant Schofield, the professor, Caryn Zinn, the dietitian, Craig Rodger, the chef.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Is Low-carb, healthy fat for sports performance right for me? -- The skinny of LCHF -- Part 1. Fuel your know-how. Learning LCHF : -- 1. Switch up your game -- Athlete profile: Nicholas Gill -- 2. Six of the best - the compelling benefits of LCHF -- Athlete profile: Jo Aleh -- 3. Learn how to self-experiment. Set yourself up for success -- Athlete profile: Bevan McKinnon -- Part 2. Retrain your body. Doing and adapting to LCHF : -- 4. Prepare your kitchen and your mind -- Athlete profile: Helen Kilding -- 5. Get fat-adapted -- Athlete profile: Emile Rennell -- Athlete profile: Nicole McCloy -- Part 3. Retrain your mind. Tweaking and sustaining LCHF : -- 6. Match carbs to your training -- Athlete profile: Stephen Farrell -- 7. Competition counts -- Athlete profile: Mitchell McClenaghan -- 8. Get lean -- Athlete profile: Kimberley Bell -- 9. The seven Ss of sports performace -- Athlete profile: Sarah Mortimer -- 10. Manage the rest of your life -- Athlete profile: Jo & Aaron McIlwee.

"Take advantage of an unfair advantage. Retraining your body and brain and turning on your fat burning almost seems like an unfair advantage when it's applied to the sporting environment. For decades, the brightest minds in the athletic performance nutrition field have had carbs pegged as the ultimate good guy. You have been told that the best way to fuel the active body is through carbohydrates, by consuming extra carbs, before, during, and after exercise. As a result, many of us have been enslaved by an outdated mantra which has pushed us to eat carb-laden food to fuel our performance. This approach robs the human body of the flexibility it craves to switch between different energy systems and ways of producing fuel. As we have already outlined in our first book What The Fat? consuming a high-carb diet is likely to lead to inflammation and poor health in the long run. For fit people, this is a tragedy. The people who value their health and well-being highly. The people who have done EXACTLY what they have been told have often ended up sick, tired and injured because of a high-carb, low-fat diet. In this practical guide we present compelling evidence, inspiring real-life stories from very successful athletes, and simple ways to eat Low-Carb, Healthy-Fat. We need you to step outside the square and reset. We will ask you to forget everything you were taught by your old-school sports performance nutritionist and learn how to become the ultimate fat burning athletic machine. Let the games begin and food give you a competitive edge."--Publisher's website.