If you turn on your TV, or read a news paper, read a magazine or head down to your local grocery store you'll see "low fat" and "fat free" food items nearly everywhere you look. Madison Avenue has spent decades making money for companies by fooling the public in to believing that all you need to do is buy these products and POOF your weight issues will go away.
Wrong
A gram of fat contains 9 calories, while a gram of protein or carbohydrate contains only 4. So if you compare equal quantities of two foods, one containing fat and the other fat-free, the fat-free food will have fewer calories. But it still has calories. Your weight gain or loss is directly related to calories taken in versus calorie burnt off.
For example the average person drinks 57 gallons of soda pop a year.
In a single 12 oz can of coke there are 160 calories and 42 grams of sugar and you guessed it no fat. Zero Nada but did you know if all you did was cut out pop and switch to water or low calorie drinks like Crystal Light you would lose weight. It's true your calorie intake would automatically go down and you would then start to lose weight. Couple it with a proper eating plan and presto you're at your goal weight.
So what does this tell us? It tells us that you need to have a balanced diet one that includes fats. Not to many and the right kinds.
The truth is that your body can convert ANY type of calorie to fat tissue, not just fat calories.
Not only that, but there are plenty of low fat cakes, cookies and desserts sold at every grocery store. Yet, do you honestly think that these foods are "healthy" merely because they are low in fat?
Of course not, and you'll gain extra fat if you eat too much of them. Just because there low fat doesn't mean you can eat twice as much of them.
In fact, our entire society has been eating low fat foods in greater quantity over the last decade - but yet our society is still getting fatter and fatter. So that should tell you something about low fat diets.
You should stop thinking "non fat" and "low fat"- since those are just buzz words designed to make you feel as though such foods are healthy.
The truth is that you don't need to worry about "fat" calories so much, and you also don't need to worry about total "carbs" so much either... What you need to worry about is a proper balanced diet that includes all protein, fats and carbs in a balanced manner.
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