Low Fat Diets
Low-Fat Diets
Low-fat diets used to be more popular but have been largely replaced with low-carb or high protein diets. In the 1980s and 1990s, low fat diets were encouraged - cutting out fats and eating high carbohydrate foods. People were told to cut out junk foods and sugars and choose low-calorie and high-fiber foods like fruits and vegetables.
Diets with more fruits and vegetables and high-fiber foods help you feel full for longer periods of time and are healthy food choices.
It became a common belief that eating fat would make you fat. Although that theory has been discounted now - knowing it is necessary to have some fat in the diet, and now people have been leaning toward diets with large amounts of fat included such as the Atkins Diet.
Eating a low fat diet may not necessarily be a bad thing - but choosing foods that are low in fat generally leads to foods high in refined sugars - which leads to weight gain.
If you want to eat a low-fat diet, select natural foods such as lean meats, vegetables and whole grains. Just buying low-fat cookies and snacks will not help you lose weight and may end up causing more weight gain in the future.
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