Low Fat Diets Are Stupid

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Perham1

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Ok, now that Dr. Perham1 has your attention let's blow the doors off all the nutritional crap that's been floating out there for so long.

Low fat is bad, stupid even, because the fat is replaced with sugars.

(see link for recent article on sugar - get your nutritional learn-on on!)

Sugar, Sugar; Oh Honey, Honey

The guy who wrote that article also wrote this:

Big Fat Lie

In the interests of full disclosure I am neither a doctor nor do I play on on tv, but I don't think many doctors know much about nutrition, either.

Here's the skinny on fat, from my view.

1. The bad news on dietary fat over the past decades is wrong. Fat is ok. The fear was that dietary fat would lead to high cholesterol which would lead to heart attacks. This hasn't been realized.

2. Making low-fat foodstuffs has been a disaster because fat, which isn't bad (see above) fills us up (satiety) and the fat has been replaced with sugars. Sugars are the devil in this context.

3. Sugars (too much sugar) messes up our body with diabetes and stuff. So, replacing the fat with sugar has been a bad, bad thing.

Now, I wouldn't be the bearer of bad news without also providing a solution. Eat less processed food, eat more apples, drink less soda.

My point is really to bring to your attention the recent article on sugar and the other one on dietary fat. Whether you agree with them the articles do provide valuable nutritional information and are worth reading.
 
I agree. Low fat = higher sugar, which your body just stores as fat if not used.

Extremes in diet are probably bad whatever it is.
 
It really can't get simpler or easier than Michael Pollan puts it:

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
 
Yeah, plus the sugars do a number on your whole diabetes thing.

I'm not a fan of the Atkins diet, but I think he was more right than wrong. He was too extreme in the "no carbs" admonition, but there are way too many "bad" (highly processed carbs) today. And, as it turns out, dietary fat isn't really all that bad. Ok, the evidence isn't conclusive, but at least we know that lard is better than Crisco, that butter is better than margarine.
 
Diet is certainly one piece of the puzzle for overall health. So of course are activity and reduction of stress. Then the uncontrollable wildcard of 'genetics.'
Some people just can't control things that are wrong with their bodies. I am 5 9 158lbs, but I have psoriasis BAD. Not necessarily the skin part really bad, but the arthritis part. It sucks, but diet and exercise don't effect it greatly.
I have heard of some diets that will, but truthfully then seem dreadful and VERY VERY limited.
The moderation stuff is key all the way around. Moderate diet, moderate activity, and moderate stress, but be sure you attempt to reduce it all you can.
 
sugar intake is really the key to our obese situation in this country. that and being stagnant. fat free crap will make you fat.
 
Here is a site which shows the sugar content of some common food items.

4 grams of sugar is about 1 sugar cube.

Kind of scary and some good sugary food for thought.

Sugar Stacks
 
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