Food Rules-Day 9: Avoid Food Products with the Wordoid "Lite" or the terms "Low-Fat" or "Nonfat" in their Names

The 40 year old campaign to create low and nonfat versions of tradition foods has been a failure:  We've gotten fat on low-fat products.  Why?  Becuase removing the fat from foods doesn't neccessarily make then nonfattening.  Carbohydrates can also make you fat, and many low and nonfat foods boost the sugars to make up for the loss of flavor.  Also, by demonizing one nutrient-fat-we inevitably give a free pass to another, supposedly "good", nutrient-carbohydrates in this case - and then proceed to eat too much of that instead.  Since the low-fat campaign began in the late 1970's, Americans have actually been eating more than 500 additional calories per day, most of them in the form of refined carbohydrates like sugar.  The result:  The average male is 17 lbs heavier, and the average female is 19 lbs heavier than in the late 1970's.  You;re better off eating the real thing in moderation than binging on "lite" food products packed with sugars and salt.