First, I 100% agree that the “fat free” promotion in the late 80s, and early 90’s caused a huge increase in weight problems in this country. However, it was mainly because people started eating a ton of highly caloric sugary “fat free” products, thinking they could do it without worry.
Fats are very good for you, but so are proteins and carbohydrates. Extreme imbalances of any of these are not good for you long term.
So we probably agree to some extent on the value of fats, etc., but disagree on the carb side.
“So we probably agree to some extent on the value of fats, etc., but disagree on the carb side.”
Agree, but one thing that has been noted is that there is not a single medical condition/disease that results from too few carbs (such as some type of vitamin deficiency), at least according to Nina (the babe in the video I linked to). People say balance is good...but there still isn’t anything saying that people must have carbs.
But cool, at least we’re on board with fat. I’ll try to better get my hands around how fat in food can get processed into body fat - maybe there’s some indirect way, but I still think it’s the carbs that become the body fat, and the food fat is simply used real-time or stored in the body in a different form.