Simply because foods have less fat, sugar, or calories doesn’t make them sensible foods.

Remember when carbohydrates were the bad guys?

A couple of years back, when everybody was doing the Doctor Atkins diet, we were deluged with everything from the impossible-sounding low carbohydrate bread to carb-counter’s chocolate fudge. The Difficulty was, everybody was too targeted on the details in keeping close tabs on their carbs, they lost track of calories. And a lot of them added weight.

The most recent nutritive example of not understanding the issue, has to do with trans fats. As concerns have appeared about the negative health implications of consuming these basically man-made fats, food makers have been falling all over themselves to dump trans fats from their products. But on the heels of all this culinary re-engineering came worries that food makers were simply replacing trans fats in their cakes and cookies with similarly “bad for you ” saturated fats. Don’t worry, announces a latest report.

After reviewing 58 reformulated foods from the superstore and twenty-five fast-food cafe offerings, it was discovered the “new-and-improved ” foods had noticeably less trans fats. On top of that, sixty five percent of the superstore foods and ninety percent of the restaurant foods had saturated fat levels that were lower, unvaried or only barely higher than previously. That sounds a bit like excellent news. But here’s the catch. The foodstuff in the survey included marg, potato fries, fish sticks, cookies, donuts, cakes, fried chicken, burgers and burritos not precisely a catalogue of health foods.

Reducing the trans fats in fried chicken is like spiking root lager with vitamins simply because it’s better, doesn’t make it good for you. Sure, reducing trans fats in foods is sensible idea. But you’d also eat a lot less trans fats if you simply ate less marg, French fries, fish sticks, cookies, donuts, cakes, fried chicken, burgers and burritos.

You can bet you will not get any trans fats if you swap in a fresh peach for pudding rather than a cream-filled vanilla cupcake. Here is what else you will not get : bleached processed flour, partly hydrogenated soybean oil, synthetic tastes, a laundry list of preservatives, 2 little spoons of grease and 5 spoons of sugar.

We want to look at foods in total, not as a source of individual ingredients that we’re making an attempt to eat more of ( or avoid ). Entire natural foods are complicated blends of all kinds of great things designed and packed as Mother Nature intended.

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