Diet Debate

Someone forward you this email? No sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here. Follow Us     Diet Debate Every five years the government produces a set of dietary guidelines, which form the basis of MyPlate, the visual guidance tool that in 2010 replaced the better-known food pyramid. I'll post the findings of the committee separately, but in sum, the main shifts in the guidelines are the call for less sugar and an easing of cholesterol restrictions. Decades of scientific studies and meta-studies have produced conflicting results, which leave us understandably confused. We can be selective and grasp onto those reports that appear to support a particular position. But the bottom line is, we simply eat too much in general, and too much processed food in particular.   Fiona Haynes Low Fat Cooking Expert Low Fat Does Not Mean More Sugar The reason people don't lose weight when they eat low fat is because they replace those lost calories with something that's just as likely to cause them problems -- sugar. It doesn't have to be that way. READ NOW » Share   6 Steps to Healthy Eating The path to healthy eating can be paved in a number of easy-to-follow steps that will convince you that cutting back on fat is not quite the sacrifice it might seem. Plus, the goal is not to eliminate fat, but to spend our fat calories wisely, focusing on arguably healthier plant-based unsaturated fats and minimizing animal-based saturated fats.   READ NOW » Share   Common Myths About Fat If you want to eat low fat, that is a reasonable option, so long as you're careful to replace those fat calories with nutrient-dense foods rather than with the empty calories typically found in high-carb foods. But be sure you understand first why do need to include fat in your diet. Sugar you can do without; not so with fat. READ NOW » Share   Saturated Fat and Heart Disease One of the most controversial of the risk factors for developing heart disease is the effect of diet, especially the role of saturated fat, long demonized as an artery-clogging fat. The link between saturated fat and  heart disease, once taken as gospel, has been broken.   READ NOW » Share   MORE FROM ABOUT.COM • 5 Healthy Foods That Aren't Necessarily So • Low Fat Meal Planning and Shopping • Cookbooks, Tools and Resources • Health, Fitness and Low Fat Living • How to Lose Weight by Eating Low Fat • Holiday and Seasonal Recipes Advertisement About Food | Follow Us:     You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Low Fat Cooking newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com - All rights reserved - Privacy Policy