Fri, Nov-06-09, 23:13
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Senior Member
Posts: 1,960
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 160/103/115
BF:
Progress: 127%
Location: Edmonton, AB Canada
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Originally Posted by glendarc
How indeed?! And how do we make it understood that healthy fats are NOT fattening??
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The media does seem to have succeeded in demonizing trans fats (rightly so.) But the regulatory bodies gave up decades ago on trying to educate people about the difference between saturated and unsaturated fat, deciding it was simpler to tell people that fat was bad.
And so now we have a plethora of "healthy" low-fat foods, with tons of sugar and salt added to compensate for the lack of fat. This is not progress.
There has been good PR attached to the Mediterranean diet, which uses good fats like olive oil, and low-glycemic index diets (which are a lot like Atkins, hush.) But given the decades long witch-hunt on fat, I think it will have to be a stealth campaign.
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