OMFG THANK YOU! I’ve been beating this drum for over ten years!
Go to any grocer and grab a bottle of fat-free ranch and a bottle of regular ranch. Turn over to the dietary labels. Ignore the fat and look at the sugar content. ANY food without fat is virtually flavorless sans spicing. To replace/supplement flavor, they have to use an agent such as sugar to impart flavor.
Mark my words in this thread on this day: a MAJORITY of findings during the fat-free craze of the 80s will be found to be wholly and completely false over the next decade. SUGAR is the reason we are, as a society, getting so fat.
If you have to look for a XXXX-Free food, look for sugar- free. You’d be better off. Fat imparts flavor, it is a vital nutrient for the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins and minerals, and it is the biggest component to feelings of satiety during a meal.
HFCS gets blamed a lot, and though science hasn’t pinpointed the reason why, there are some provocative suggestions. An excess of fructose is an express road to the creation of fat. And compared to sucrose it’s not as satisfying in a beverage and leads to more after-cravings. If you do use sugar, use plain old cane or beet sugar.
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.
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.
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.
The anti-fat nazis just about killed us all. Replacing fats with simple carbs was a disaster. The evidence had been there for over 20 years too.