Low fat "stuff"

I no longer get frustrated when the world caches up with me : )

For years I have said that the low fat and no fat foodstuffs [I have trouble calling that stuff food] were at best no help and at worst bad for you. Well the "no help" research has come out. Turns out that in a major research project it was found that low fat diets did not reduce the risk of breast cancer or colon cancer - nor did the diet high in fruit and grain prove to reduce risks.

My take is that the rate of obesity keeps pace with the number of low and no fat foods we have in the supermarket. Why? We need fat in our diets and taking it out means we eat more of the bad stuff in an attempt to appease our bodies - which seem to know they are lacking something - but our brain says NO NO NO to fat because the media has told us it is BAD BAD BAD and so we ignore our body's real message.

We all need a mix of carbs, fat and protein... I took a dietary assessment and I need to have 50% of any meal to be protein....others need 50 - 60 % to be carbs. There is never going to be one type of diet fits all - we all come from different types of ethnicities.

Many parents who themselves might be overweight or afraid of being overweight feed their children low fat and no fat foods. If adults need fat in their diet so do children. It's a human condition - not an adult - child thing.

A growing body needs ALL components - fat, carbs, protein - as well as fruits and veggies...