Eating Low-Fat Foods In Your Diet
Can Be Counterproductive
Low fat diet foods like low-fat salad dressings, low-fat chips, low-fat frozen entrees and low-fat cookies are often full of sugar and chemicals that boost the taste of these diet foods. Eating low fat diet food can often be very bad for our health because of the excess sugar, and/or chemicals like MSG. Clink on the links to find out more about each of these. As far as the "fake fat", or olestra, it has been implicated in many health problems as well. In Procter & Gamble's own studies, consuming just 16 olestra-containing potato chips caused a significant depletion of fat-soluble vitamins within only two weeks. Click here for more on “fake fat”.
Harvard Medical School Study on Low Fat Diets
A recent Harvard Medical School study showed that people following a moderate-fat diet (35% of calories as fat) lost 9 lbs, while those eating a low-fat diet (20% of calories as fat) gained 6 pounds. This was a long-term study of 18 months.
There is other research also shows that low-fat diets don't help us to lose weight! I know this is hard to believe since most of us have been brainwashed by the “fat is bad” mantra, but remember, we have experience a huge rise in obesity and overweight people at the same time as we have actually reduced the amount of fat in the diet as a percentage of our food from 40% to around 32%. We have also greatly increased the number of “diet foods” in our diets. So diet foods are NOT helping us to lose weight, and neither are low-fat diets.
More on Fake Fat
More on Low Fat Diets and How They Don’t Work For Losing Weight
Saturated Fats in the Diet - Do We Need Them?
The Cholesterol Myth
Low Fat Entrees - New Fangled Foods
Stop Eating Low Fat Diet Foods
Don’t Be Afraid of Eating the Right Kind of Fat!
|
