The fat-rich diet of Barry Groves is a slap in the face for all healthy food proponents. He says what he eats is natural, while cholesterol-free fruit and veg nutrition will only make you ill.

For 40 years Groves has been eating a lot of meat with fat, eggs, butter and other stuff that would make any weight-obsessed girl flee screaming. At the age of 72 he’s fit and full of energy and doesn’t hesitate to preach his dietary views, reports the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

“We’re a carnivorous species, our gut is identical to that of a big cat,” says Groves. “Yet we’re encouraged to eat foods that have been padded out with modified starch and vegetable oils, and complex carbohydrates such as bread, pasta and rice, which have all been labelled healthy, but not the fatty meat that our body actually recognises.”

Unnatural low-fat diet is what makes people obese, he says. The human organism fails to see that it has had enough and you keep eating and gaining weight.

The author of the book ‘Trick and Treat: How Healthy Eating Is Making Us Ill’ dismisses as untrue the common perception that high cholesterol is a sure way to clogged blood vessels and cardiac arrests.

One test in 1950 involved feeding rabbits with cholesterol-rich food which caused them heart problems.

He argues: “Rabbits are only designed to eat plant life, which has no cholesterol. The clogged arteries were caused by feeding them an unnatural diet.”

The second study was in 1953. Researcher Ansel Keyes found correlation between fat consumption and the rates of heart diseases.

“Keyes had access to data from 22 countries, but simply ignored data from 16 countries which didn’t suit his hypothesis,” claims Groves.

He adds modern research shows no link between fatty diet and heart diseases.

Vegetables, fruits and other food labelled as healthy are not, and may even cause trouble, Groves believes.

“Vegetables are not the problem, but there’s no biological or chemical reason to eat them,” he said. “But fruit? The natural sugar it contains, fructose, is much more dangerous than simple glucose or table sugar. It has been linked to the rise in obesity.”

According to Barry Groves a healthy diet is simple.

“Eat purer foods, and ones that are more natural to us as a species. Cut down on bread and eat more fish, eggs, butter, any animal protein, anything that used to move around, that wasn’t stuck in the ground. Liver, kidney, snails – even insects will do.”