Don’t Eat Salad with Fat-Free Dressing Says Science

Gizmodo ^ | JUL 5, 2012 1:40 PM | Gizmodo

[James C. Bennett]

If you're using fat free dressing on your salad, you're doing it all wrong. According to scientists, you need to eat salad with fat-based dressings to get the most out of the veggies. Having no fat in your salad actually diminishes the benefit from eating vegetables.

This sounds a little crazy, right? But yes, even though fat free dressing has less calories than its fatty filled counterpart, you're not getting the full oomph you want when eating vegetables with skinny dressings. Researchers at Purdue University compared salad eating with dressing that had saturated fat, monounsaturated fat and polyunsaturated fat at three, eight and twenty grams of fat to find which was most effective and discovered that fat is a good thing. The Atlantic says:

Mario Ferruzzi, the lead author of the study and an associate professor of food science at Purdue, said that in order to get more from eating fruits and vegetables, they need to be paired correctly with fat-based dressings.

It turned out that dressing made with monounsaturated fat (olive and canola oil) were easily the most effective, needing the least amount of dressing to get the most amount of health-promoting carotenoids (carotenoids act as antioxidants in our bodies). Carotenoids are found in eating plant foods like vegetables and fruits so it makes sense that we'd want to get as much bang as we can when eating them. Using salad dressing with fat accomplishes that. [Molecular Nutrition & Food Research via The Atlantic, Image Credit: Kamila i Wojtek Cyganek/Shutterstock]

[trailhkr1]

Saying the desire for junk will simply go away is a lie. Repeating a lie makes you a liar.

If a person truly "eat's clean" and does not have cheats, the cravings for junk food do go away for most people, not all, after a period of time. Usually 2-3 weeks..maybe longer with some people. There is a true addiction to food.

[rarestia]

Hey Eaker... are you conveniently omitting the first part of the sentence, or are you intent on attempting to deride the entirety of your character?

You are, again, cherry-picking parts of the whole. If you read all of my posts to this thread, you would see that I continuously referred to eating fresh fruit and nuts as snacks as opposed to the one, single post you seem intent on referencing as some overarching clause that defaults the rest of everything I wrote.

I despise FReepers like you who troll through posts looking for one thing with which they disagree and then proceed to die on their swords trying to make the person look like a complete fool over one post out of many in the thread.

Stick a sock in it. You’ve already insulted me, impugned my good character, debased my morality, and raised me up as some grand equivocator, when in reality your entire house of cards is based on one clause that you have conveniently dismissed as irrelevant to the discussion.

Again, go pound sand.

[Eaker]

Lots of words I didn’t read.

To keep up one lie.

One big fat lie.