Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Why you shouldn't be afraid of eating fat...

Who here remembers when SnackWells arrived and the low-fat craze started?

Ah, 1992…the beginning of the onslaught of low-fat and non-fat “food” products. Back then, I believed that I could eat as much low-fat or non-fat “food” as I wanted without having to worry about calories. As a person who has always loved sweets and baked things, it was a dream come true! I remember arguing about it with my mother, who insisted that calories still did matter – and warned me that eating a box of fat-free cookies every day was probably going to make me fat.

She was right, as usual.

The low-fat/no-fat craze is partially responsible for our current weight problem here in America.

Why?

Well, so-called experts started telling us that calories didn’t matter – as long as we ate low-fat or non-fat food, we’d be fine. (Calories DO matter, and so does where we get them from. More on that later.)

And – dietary fat improves the taste and texture of food. Take it out, and what is left? Dry cardboard-tasting “cookies”. Full story...

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