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Why is there a demand for fat free foods? Why not demand food that comes in its most natural form? Fat free milk, yogurt, cheese etc. require more mechanical separation and synthetic techniques in order to get them fat free. Humans never started eating fat free processed products until only very recently, and where exactly are the health benefits? We're fatter than ever.
Food with fat taste infinitely better. You can still eat the same calories as you would with something fat free by eating less but still get the much better overall taste. Eating fat free has got to be one of the biggest gimmicks of all time, and now tons of studies are coming out that are showing that saturated fats really aren't as bad as we thought. What's worse are highly processed foods loaded with sugar and artificial ingredients---like what is in fat free food. Food that is fat free often has to make up for its awful taste by loading it up with tons of sugar instead.
Just tried a fantastic whole milk french vanilla yogurt, there is no way in heck I will ever go back to fat free vanilla yogurt ever again. Same goes with milk.
Or Low Carb, or High Fiber, or Gluten Free, or any of the latest Fad o' the Day food trends? They ruin the taste of foods, one after another, and then 20 years later it turns out they were wrong. You really could have been having the tasty stuff all along.
The real key to everything is moderation. Enjoy butter... just not on everything, everyday. Love you some bacon... as a once in a while treat. Go ahead and have that gooey hot fudge brownie sundae... just not every month.
The only thing that's fat free that I buy is milk. I prefer it. But I still buy whole milk for my hubby. Anything less and he acts like I'm trying to kill him.
Why is there a demand for fat free foods? Why not demand food that comes in its most natural form? Fat free milk, yogurt, cheese etc. require more mechanical separation and synthetic techniques in order to get them fat free. Humans never started eating fat free processed products until only very recently, and where exactly are the health benefits? We're fatter than ever.
Food with fat taste infinitely better. You can still eat the same calories as you would with something fat free by eating less but still get the much better overall taste. Eating fat free has got to be one of the biggest gimmicks of all time, and now tons of studies are coming out that are showing that saturated fats really aren't as bad as we thought. What's worse are highly processed foods loaded with sugar and artificial ingredients---like what is in fat free food. Food that is fat free often has to make up for its awful taste by loading it up with tons of sugar instead.
Just tried a fantastic whole milk french vanilla yogurt, there is no way in heck I will ever go back to fat free vanilla yogurt ever again. Same goes with milk.
you have a good point and I agree with you with a few exceptions: yes, the calories might be the same but there are still benefits from things like fat free yogurt and milk. Doctors even recommend putting very young children on fat free milk and have for a couple of decades now. It has little to do with calories and more to do wiht cutting out fat, the same with cottage cheese. Other than a few products I do agree. As for the milk for instance, I have bought even 2% a few times cause it was on sale, hubby doesn't like it, he prefers the non fat.
I have said this for years, one of my doctors years ago mentioned the secret to losing weight is less calories and that means smaller portions. He said it didn't really make a lot of difference where those calories are coming from. If people check the ingredients on the low fat, low calorie, low this, low that I am sure many would understand what you are saying: An example and I have used this before: low sodium V 8 juisce, more sugar: low fat salad dressings, the same, more sugar. Cereals used to be truely natural, now they are truely filled with sweetening of some kind. I think we could all find many low fat, non fat, etc foods that have replaced the fat with other unhealthy additives: this goes for low sodium, low sugar, whatever.
The only thing I buy lowfat would be diet soda and lowfat shredded cheeses, cottage cheese and sour cream. I tried FF cheese and it's gross.
I don't even go that far, I don't like the consistancy of low fat sour cream, especially if you are trying to use it for dips or cooking. Low fat cheeses I don't like either, but I do buy low fat cottage cheese and I can't understand how some think it tastes any different from regular cottage cheese.
If you look at many "fat free" products, you will find that they are filled with sugar in an effort to make them taste palatable.
Not only that, sometimes I've noticed that their sodium content is higher too.
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