The truth about low-fat food
Truth: The ingredient of choice to make up for the reduced fat is usually sugar.
Truth: Most of these types of low-fat foods, are highly processed, containing ingredients which are from from their original state. This ends up being harmful to the body. Many of these products also contain oils which end up being subjected to high levels of heat, making them rancid by the time they end up on our supermarket shelves. Consuming these oils can end up clogging your arteries.
Truth: As a result of these foods having been altered from their original state, the essential nutrients, co-factors, enzymes and amino acids which are required for proper digestion are missing.
If you read the nutritional info on any package claiming to have low-fat, fat free or non-fat contents, well.... take a look at the amt of carbs per serving.. it's usually sky high. So you see, when one nutrient is omitted, something else makes up for it.. so become a smarter shopper..!
Question: When something is labelled low fat, ask yourself this, what is it low compared to? Than what it originally would've been under the manufacturer's regular brand? Compared to other brands? Sometimes, the meanings of these things can be quite confusing because there is no reference to what they are trying to say.
Keep in mind..
Keep in mind that it's not the fat in fat which makes us fat, but it's the calories in fat which makes us fat. So the key word here is calories right? Which means that carbs and protein sources high in calories can make us put on weight too.
Also..
Do you know how important fat is in our diets? It is vital for the healthy functioning of our liver,lungs,bones,cells,nervous system.and brain (remember,our brain is primarily composed of fat particularly myelin sheaths which cover the neurons in the brain). It is said in this case, for brain function consuming foods high in fat, especially oleic acid is important as it is one of the most common fatty acids found in the brain..
Examples of sources of monounsaturated fat containing oleic acid is avocados, oils from pecans, almonds, macadamias, and olive oils..
I don't know how true it is, the saying that fat consumption is particularly vital for brain function , because from my readings, some people say, glucose actually is the most important for proper functioning of the brain.
Either way.. let's not forget how important a role fat plays in.. tissue repair, energy, to help in the absorption of vitamins which are fat-soluble, such as vitamins A,D,E, and K. And let's not forget about omega-3 fatty acids found in fat which are important for a healthy heart.
So where should we be getting our daily source of fat from then?
From natural sources! Not the processed kind! Cause it's the processed kind which is soo full of all that artery-clogging stuff, the trans fat which we need to avoid, which will only increase the plaque build up and clogging of our arteries!
Examples of sources of healthy fat:
If you read the nutritional info on any package claiming to have low-fat, fat free or non-fat contents, well.... take a look at the amt of carbs per serving.. it's usually sky high. So you see, when one nutrient is omitted, something else makes up for it.. so become a smarter shopper..!
Question: When something is labelled low fat, ask yourself this, what is it low compared to? Than what it originally would've been under the manufacturer's regular brand? Compared to other brands? Sometimes, the meanings of these things can be quite confusing because there is no reference to what they are trying to say.
Keep in mind..
Keep in mind that it's not the fat in fat which makes us fat, but it's the calories in fat which makes us fat. So the key word here is calories right? Which means that carbs and protein sources high in calories can make us put on weight too.
Also..
Do you know how important fat is in our diets? It is vital for the healthy functioning of our liver,lungs,bones,cells,nervous system.and brain (remember,our brain is primarily composed of fat particularly myelin sheaths which cover the neurons in the brain). It is said in this case, for brain function consuming foods high in fat, especially oleic acid is important as it is one of the most common fatty acids found in the brain..
Examples of sources of monounsaturated fat containing oleic acid is avocados, oils from pecans, almonds, macadamias, and olive oils..
I don't know how true it is, the saying that fat consumption is particularly vital for brain function , because from my readings, some people say, glucose actually is the most important for proper functioning of the brain.
Either way.. let's not forget how important a role fat plays in.. tissue repair, energy, to help in the absorption of vitamins which are fat-soluble, such as vitamins A,D,E, and K. And let's not forget about omega-3 fatty acids found in fat which are important for a healthy heart.
So where should we be getting our daily source of fat from then?
From natural sources! Not the processed kind! Cause it's the processed kind which is soo full of all that artery-clogging stuff, the trans fat which we need to avoid, which will only increase the plaque build up and clogging of our arteries!
Examples of sources of healthy fat:
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