This is a great article regarding how unhealthy fat-free products;
"Many people choose fat-free products assuming they are healthy, but this could be worse for your heart. Experts are calling on the FDA to discontinue the “total fat” information on the food label, and they are asking health professionals to stop advising people to follow a low-fat diet.
Decades of research on diet and heart health was presented by epidemiologists from Harvard, Tufts and elsewhere at the American Dietetic Association’s Annual Food and Nutrition Conference in Boston last week.
The message was clear: Americans should not follow low-fat diets but, instead, should add “good fats” to replace simple carbohydrates, similar to a Mediterranean eating pattern...."
Hmmm...I dont know that I agree with removing the fat info from nutritional labels...instead, why not make it clear what the 'good' versus the 'bad' are....
I agree with that Lilac. I was more fixated on the point that fat-free diets are not healthy. I've been super guilty of following a very low-fat diet and buy a lot of fat-free products. When I see a label with fat in it, then I am a bit hesitant to buy it, but when there's no label and I know that it's healthy, then I am more prone to buy it [such as salmon].
Hey sweetie,
Well sat fats = bad...that I know. There are really good fats out there in nuts...now I'm talking brazil nuts and the like, not heavily salted peanuts. And yes fish is an excellent source of good oils.
I too have been guilty, and i am trying to get back and enjoy my good fats. Everything in moderation. And the good fats provide vitamins and minerals for our body that other things can't. I also try to get that protin in and those complex carbs.