Sedentary and dietary are two overused and abused words that pop up in lifestyle and health literature as frequently as the bulge shows up on a midsection. Years of discourse on the obesity epidemic has lent itself to numerous diet theories and ways of slimming down. From Atkins to a Mediterranean diet and lifting weights to swinging ropes, number of prescriptions on cutting down flab only rival the number of ways of fighting terrorism.
Fat in the diet has been a vexed issue. Theories over the much reviled lipid has hovered around more fat, less fat or no fat at all. A fat-free diet has been promoted internationally with big corporations not only making low-fat products but also propagating a diet low in fat. The low-fat epidemic spawns milk, cheese, and even potato chips that are purportedly baked and not fried.
Now, UK’s National Obesity Forum and Public Health Collaborative have come out with results of a research that supports the theory sometimes put forward: eating fat does not make you fat.
Taking from the truism ‘you are what you eat’, one realises the importance of a balanced diet, which is supposed to include some fat and carbohydrates — both food groups much reviled for contributing to piling up the pounds on the human body.
When it comes to food consumption, it is satiety that matters. But so less has been said about satiety. Dieticians and other experts harp more on the type of food being consumed than talk about satiety, which is a function of the brain. Eating and feeling full is related to neurology as much as it is to the digestive system. A frugal diet rich in fruits, vegetables and low fat products can’t keep one full for long. Fat in the form of full fat milk, cheese and butter can go a long way in bringing about satiety so that snacking in-between meals is prevented.
The report — Eat fat, cut the carbs and avoid snacking to reverse obesity and Type 2 diabetes — says low fat and lower cholesterol messages have had harmful consequences on health.
The low fat and fat free diet also has health consequences for many among the younger generation who aim to look emaciated than healthy.
It is proven that the so-called good fat that contains unsaturated fatty acids works to bring down harmful fat with saturated fatty acids. The report by the British groups, though unconventional, seems accurate. The public — usually quarter baked on issues about health — needs to be better educated on dietary guidelines.
Sedentary and dietary are two overused and abused words that pop up in lifestyle and health literature as frequently as the bulge shows up on a midsection. Years of discourse on the obesity epidemic has lent itself to numerous diet theories and ways of slimming down. From Atkins to a Mediterranean diet and lifting weights to swinging ropes, number of prescriptions on cutting down flab only rival the number of ways of fighting terrorism.
Fat in the diet has been a vexed issue. Theories over the much reviled lipid has hovered around more fat, less fat or no fat at all. A fat-free diet has been promoted internationally with big corporations not only making low-fat products but also propagating a diet low in fat. The low-fat epidemic spawns milk, cheese, and even potato chips that are purportedly baked and not fried.
Now, UK’s National Obesity Forum and Public Health Collaborative have come out with results of a research that supports the theory sometimes put forward: eating fat does not make you fat.
Taking from the truism ‘you are what you eat’, one realises the importance of a balanced diet, which is supposed to include some fat and carbohydrates — both food groups much reviled for contributing to piling up the pounds on the human body.
When it comes to food consumption, it is satiety that matters. But so less has been said about satiety. Dieticians and other experts harp more on the type of food being consumed than talk about satiety, which is a function of the brain. Eating and feeling full is related to neurology as much as it is to the digestive system. A frugal diet rich in fruits, vegetables and low fat products can’t keep one full for long. Fat in the form of full fat milk, cheese and butter can go a long way in bringing about satiety so that snacking in-between meals is prevented.
The report — Eat fat, cut the carbs and avoid snacking to reverse obesity and Type 2 diabetes — says low fat and lower cholesterol messages have had harmful consequences on health.
The low fat and fat free diet also has health consequences for many among the younger generation who aim to look emaciated than healthy.
It is proven that the so-called good fat that contains unsaturated fatty acids works to bring down harmful fat with saturated fatty acids. The report by the British groups, though unconventional, seems accurate. The public — usually quarter baked on issues about health — needs to be better educated on dietary guidelines.
