/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18114013]

so I heard that in US during the boomer times it was the low fat diet era, and people often talk how that diet didn't work and so on. so why exactly is it considered a failed diet? I heard they just doubled down on sugar instead? was it truly "low fat", or people just bought 0% milk, then still ate lots of fat with oil / butter / meat?

[Anonymous No.18114448]

>>18114013
it works temporarily because they removed a calorically dense food from their diet and replaced it with one of half density, but because it was an ideological and marketing-sourced diet rather than research-based, people basically ate sawdust until their endocrine system took a kak and they rebounded. the high carb high sugar diet is protein-sparing but in long periods at low body fat (true of any diet) dysregulates the hormones and leads to failure, rebound, etc

[Anonymous No.18114574]

Basically people in the "boomer times" ate a lot less added fat than we do today, probably due to more home cooking & less fried stuff from restaurants. Calorie intake from other sources has not really changed all that much.

Also, a lot of people like to blame sugar for America's growing obesity epidemic, but per capita sugar consumption peaked in the US around the year 2000, and has been steadily declining since then.

The big thing of course, is simply calories in, calories out. You can have lots of fats in your diet, as long you cut back on other foods. Adding a bunch of fat, and still eating the same amount of other stuff, will of course make you fat.

[Anonymous No.18114582]

>>18114013
are you retarded?
dietary fat doesn't magically turn into stored fat. that's not how calories work.
the "low fat" diet failed because people realized it's pointless and stupid.

[Anonymous No.18114672]

because fat is flavor, and to make up for the loss of flavor by removing fat, processed foods added more sugar.

the rise of seed oils is also a complicating factor, as is the decline of physical activity.

[Anonymous No.18114923]

>>18114013
fat is good for you and is essential to a healthy diet. fat is also flavourful and to compensate for lack of flavour in fat free foods sugar is often added.

[Anonymous No.18115094]

Turns out a certain amount of fat is required for optimal brain function, oops.

[Anonymous No.18115129]

>>18114923
>>18114672
This, and to emphasize, in a lot of "low fat" foods, they just add more sugar so it doesn't lose flavor, especially in america

idk how much research there is but I've also heard with bigger more industrialized farming, fruits and vegetables have less nutrients. They keep reusing the same soil without letting it properly replenish, so there's literally less nutrients than before.
It's like when they genetically modify tomatoes to be bigger. They are bigger, but there is still the same amount of nutrients or "tomato" it just has more water compared to a smaller one.

[Anonymous No.18115955]

>>18114923
>>18115129
The whole "adding sugar to make up for low fat" thing is grossly overstated. The average American eats less sugar than they did 20 years ago, on par with what American's were eating in the mid 1980's, yet obesity keeps increasing. Almost all the additional calories being eaten are coming from added fats & oils.

[Anonymous No.18117135]

>>18114923
>>18115094
>>18115955
So after reading all this, I'm still confused—why do people think low fat is so bad anyway? the point about "they just added more sugar" is arguable. of course ZERO fat is bad, but I don't think anyone really went out of their way to remove it altogether, people just consumed less fat. sounds good to me.

[Anonymous No.18117793]

>>18117135
because there's literally nothing wrong with eating fat, retard. dietary fat does not translate to body fat.
eating reduced fat to lose weight makes as much sense as eating reduced protein to lose weight.
you're giving up a macro your body needs for no gain whatsoever.
if you really want to lose weight, eat less calories and especially less sugar. fat consumption has fuck all to do with it.

[Anonymous No.18117875]

>>18114013
hey cute cat pls don't do that it's bad for you

[Anonymous No.18117916]

>>18117875
you're not the boss of me, I do what I want

[Anonymous No.18117923]

>>18117916
beep beep

[Anonymous No.18117927]

>>18117923