| It is recommended that a healthy diet should contain no | | | | option, covering the past in high calorie sauces. |
| more that 30% of the total calories from fat. Because | | | | However, even if past is eaten plain, some of the |
| of this low fat food have become a major focus of | | | | calories will be turned into fatty tissue. The body needs |
| personal diets. Supermarkets have special displays just | | | | a certain amount of fat to insulate itself. It will take |
| for low fat foods, a multitude of cookbooks have been | | | | whatever you give and use it weather it is full of fat or |
| written, and there are TV programs dedicated to the | | | | not. |
| subject. | | | | If the notion that low fat food will make us thinner is |
| One can see how this appeals to individuals as a | | | | correct, why is this nation becoming more obese each |
| simple formula. Just eat foods that contain less fat and | | | | year. Americans have consumed more low fat food |
| we will be putting less fat into our bodies. Unfortunately | | | | over the last ten years, than in any time in history, yet |
| science has proven this does not hold true. Our bodies | | | | obesity continues to be a problem. If all we needed |
| do not distinguish the food we eat as fat calories, they | | | | was to fill our bodies with low fat foods, why is obesity |
| will take any type of calorie coming into our body and | | | | becoming an epidemic? |
| turn it into fat. | | | | As a nation, we have been marketed to with tons of |
| Fat is not bad for us in moderation. Being fat is. You | | | | low fat foods. Advertisers have used the term low fat |
| need to separate the two. Eating the proper amount | | | | as a means to push their products. |
| of fat will actually satisfy our appetite. Eating a bland | | | | Our bodies need a balance of fat and carbs on a daily |
| diet only causes our systems to crave high calorie | | | | basis. Eating the right balance of fat and carbs with the |
| foods. | | | | properly calorie intake will help our bodies naturally lose |
| One classic example of this is the choice of past as a | | | | weight. |
| dietary meal. Unfortunately many people abuse this | | | | |