Posted on 07/05/2012 12:00:01 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
Aside from nutrient deficiencies and energy loss, eating too little fat is an easy way to guarantee that you will frequently feel hungry. Fat satiates the appetite. Fat is an essential part of a healthy diet, and healthy fats are good for you.
Eat a balanced diet, control snacking and exercise daily is a recipe that will work for the vast majority of overweight people.
When a product says “fat-free” on the label, you can almost always assume that there’s more sugar and/or corn syrup in it, to make up for the lack of fat. I never buy anything labeled “fat-free”.
Congratulations on your weight loss/control success!! That is an amazing story.
My favorite for salad dressing is either Dorothy Lynch, or to mix some bleu cheese dressing with French dressing. YUM
Go Boilers!
While it may/may not be ideal, the human body can survive indefinitely without carbohydrates or fat.
I knew fat free dressings were wrong, LOL. Fat free ranch is unbelievably nasty....it’s sweet and gelatinous.
Rarestia, with all due respect, the four letter acronym you used at the beginning of your post makes me cringe. Do you know what it stands for? It’s awful.
GREEN SH*T IS WHAT FOOD EATS!
My ancestors survived the long walk from Olduvai Gorge to the present and did it without much GREEN SH*T and NO salad dressing at all.
Drizzle on a bit of olive oil or chop up some avocado and add it.
Fat and cholesterol are brain food.
Eggs are bad - No eggs are good.
Butter is bad - No butter is good.
Milk is bad - No milk is good.
One day in the not too distant future some scientist is going to say that tobacco is good, it is just the filter that was bad.
Olive oil, some balsamic vinegar, chopped up shallot, a bit of dijon and a squirt of honey, shake it up and I’m good to go.
3 or 4 teaspoons of extra virgin olive oil, 3 of balsamic vinegar, 1 of red wine vinegar and a small dash of sugar.
I agree with you. I'm damned sick of hearing about this crapola!
No the Roberts decision was the dumbest thing ever. Foods interact with each other. Absorption of certain vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients are dependent upon what they are consumed with.
Maybe but I would suggest that eating too many calories and not having enough expenditure of same in your daily life (ie the couch potatoes who play video games) is a the primary cause.
bake your own....alwaqqys tastes better anyway
Actually, not so dumb at all. The essential vitamins A, D, E and K are fat soluble, fat has to be present for the body to assimilate these nutrients.
Again, this is government interference in our life. By promoting a high carb-low fat diet since the 70’s we have more obesity, heart disease and diabetes than ever. Fat is NOT the problem. Actually it’s highly processed food, ie bread, grains, pastas and others.
Why do you think that all the diet programs that are carb restrictive work? Aside from weight loss, blood fats (ie cholesterol levels) return to normal, blood pressure returns to normal, blood sugars return to normal with these diets. What these diets do is balance the sugar and insulin levels in the body that when high, promote fat storage.
I remember in the 60’s on restaurant menus there was a entree called a “Diet Plate” on it was a hamburger, cottage cheese and fresh fruit. That’s what women ate when they wanted to maintain their weight, which was much slimmer then, and then comes the Surgeon General telling us NO, NO that’s BAAAD!
I do not listen to what the government recommends because you can guarantee it’s always wrong. Somebody is making money from promoting whatever it is.
Canola Oil? I grow Canolas in my backyard!
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