Low-Fat Diets Don’t Work
Eating Low Fat Diet Foods Doesn't Work
Are you still caught up in the low-fat mantra of the past couple decades? Do you think you have to cut back on the amount of fat in the food you eat in your diet if you are trying to lose weight? These ideas are still so prevalent in our media and in the advertising for the low-fat diet food products you see everywhere, in the grocery stores and in restaurants, that it’s no wonder you may still believe this. In fact, even many doctors still believe that eating a high-fat diet with lots of high fat foods causes weight gain. Our government is still promoting a low fat, and especially a low saturated fat diet in their food guidelines and food pyramid, but science has really shown that this is not true!
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Low Fat Diets Tend To Promote Weight Gain
However, eating a low-fat diet not only doesn’t work, but it's not healthy, not natural, and it actually, surprise, surprise, tends to promote weight gain! Research confirms this statement. The famous Framingham Study that started in 1948 is still going on, and it shows that the more saturated fat, the more calories, and the more cholesterol a person ate in their diet, the lower their serum cholesterol! The results also show that the more fat and fatty foods they ate in their diet, the less they weighed! So people eating more fatty foods in the diet actually weighed less than those eating lower fat foods.
We Are Eating Less Fat in Our Diets, but Gaining Weight
We are eating less fat in our diet as a nation, and fewer fatty foods, but are gaining weight. There are a number of reasons for this. One is that since fat gives foods much of their flavor, when manufacturers cut out the fat from foods, they add sugar, MSG and other chemicals to the food to enhance the taste. These can all have adverse effects on both our weight and our health.
Low Fat Diets and Eating Low Fat Diet Foods
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