The Big Fat truth about low fat food - Tv program

[Lenny3]

Watching this program on Sky channel Really about Zoe Salmon following a low fat diet for a while. Its amazing, she's always eating! They did an experiment with a rugby team, after training they gave half low calorie drinks the other half full sugar drinks and then sent them in to a buffet to eat whatever they wanted, and to record what they ate. The half that drank the low calorie stuff ate more than the others. They say this is because your body takes in something sweet it then expects to gain energy from that but can't if theres no sugar.

Well worth a look if you can see it. It looks like its an old repeat,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yrvhg

The conclusion of the program seems to be that low fat diet foods are bad for you and she managed to put on 3 pounds on them. I believe it was over 2 weeks.

 

[AMBrennan]

Whilst I haven't watched the programme ("not currently available on iplayer"), I did read the description:

For four weeks, model and former Blue Peter presenter Zoe Salmon ditches the fine dining she's used to and lives on nothing but pre-packaged, highly-processed foods that are labelled either low or lower in fat

Thing is, terms like "low fat" and "lower fat" have a specific definition - less than 3g fat per 100g, and 30% less fat than the regular product respectively. It does not mean that the product is good for you - coke is low fat, and lower-fat lard is still unhealthy. A best, you might conclude that products advertised as low fat should be avoided.

 

[Yorksman]

The conclusion of the program seems to be that low fat diet foods are bad for you and she managed to put on 3 pounds on them. I believe it was over 2 weeks.

As anyone who drinks 5 pints of Timothy Taylor's Landlord already knows. You get the munchies and then finish off the evening with a guvner curry plus all the trimmings. Some things just do that to you.

 

[viviennem]

Lard contains:

45% monounsaturated fat
39% saturated fat, of which 35% is stearic acid
16% polyunsaturated fat.

info above from the USA national nutritional database


Stearic acid metabolises to oleic acid, which raises HDL and lowers LDL simultaneously.
Saturated fats raise both.
Polyunsaturated lowers LDL; has no meaningful affect on HDL

souce: Mattinson & Grundy 1985
Mattinson F H and Grundy, S M. Comparison of Effects of Dietary Saturated, Monounsaturated and Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids on Plasma Lipids and Lipoproteins in Man. Journal of Lipid Research Feb 1985; 26(2): 194-202

Lard is a much maligned fat and is not quite as "dangerous" as it's made out. Even olive oil contains 16% saturated fat!

Viv 8)

 

[Yorksman]

Lard is a much maligned fat

Fresh brown bread with a nice crust, a smidgin of bovril and a thick covering of pork dripping sprinkled with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper goes well with a pint of rigwelter or OP.