Everywhere you look, it seems that "low fat" foods abound. While there are certain low-fat or no-fat foods
that we are going to eat, you don't want to restrict yourself to a totally no-fat diet. There are certain fats that
are good fats, and other that are bad fats. We're going to want to eat good fats because they are necessary
for proper health. Bad fats, however, will make you fat.
There are tons of fad "no-fat" diets out there that have promoted the whole "low-fat" mentality. What's
happened? People are still continuing to get fat eating "fat-free" foods. They eat fat-free cookies, fat-free
chips, and fat-free dairy products, yet they keep getting fatter. Why? Many fat-free foods have nearly as
many calories as their full-fat versions.
Just look at something simple like regular milk. Whole milk (full milk fat) has 150 calories per cup.
2% "low fat" milk has 121. If you drink 4 cups of 2% milk per day, that's still 484 calories. Yes, it's
better than the 600 calories from the full-fat milk, but you're still consuming a good number of calories.
Remember: calories in - calories out = weight gain or loss.
Now, you start eating "fat free" potato chips thinking to yourself that you can splurge... hey, why not?
They're "fat free." Well, you still load on the calories with fat-free potato chips. It's the calories that make
you fat. In fact, when food manufacturers remove fat from their products, often times they replace the fat
with sugar to improve the taste. Guess what... by adding sugar, they're bringing the calorie count almost
back up to where the full-fat product was.
We need fat. Fat forms lining of the cell membranes in almost every cell of our bodies. Your brain is
composed primarily of fat. If you don't eat enough of the right kinds of fat, your brain will not get the
proper nutrition to function. Eating too little fat can also reduce your testosterone levels (equally important
for women as for men).
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