Dietary Fat Drives Satiety, Sugar Drives Hunger

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🗃 Resources:: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (2020)
2026-06-10

Dietary fat drives satiety. Dietary sugar drives hunger. The sugar effect dominates. Control your appetite accordingly.

I'm not an expert, and the problem is diet and nutrition are like politics: everybody thinks they're an expert. Their identity is wrapped up in it. In general, any sensible diet avoids the combination of sugar and fat together.

Most fit and healthy people focus much more on what they eat than how much. Quality control is easier than (and leads to) quantity control. Ironically, fasting (from a low-carb/paleo base) is easier than portion control. Once the body detects food, it overrides the brain.

When it comes to medicine and nutrition, subtract before you add.