Over the past decades, products with a reduced fat content have been considered more “healthy” and dietary. We decided to check if they really help to lose weight.
Information that with a diet it is worth giving preference to low -fat products, you can find V Mediaas well as in culinary Blogs And on sitesdedicated to nutrition. Very popular Dyukan's diet Includes low -fat dairy products. Manufacturers And Sellers Such products also claim that they help to lose weight.
It would seem logical: the smaller the fat is in the product, the fewer calories are in it. However, this is not entirely true. If you remove fat from the product, it will become tasteless. Manufacturers compensate for this with taste additives and sweeteners, that is, carbohydrates. And we are already They wrote The fact that the low -carb diet, according to research, is much more effective than low -air. This means that reducing the amount of fat by increasing carbohydrates is not the best idea to lose weight.
IN ordinary Granola, for example, contains 12 g of sugar, while in low -fat - 22 g. At the same time, the calorie content of the degree even higher. The same goes for fruit yogurts: in the product with ordinary milk and with low -fat It contains about the same number of calories, but more sugar in the second. Nutritionists recommend avoiding low -fat salad dressings, since many vegetable vitamins are simply Do not learn Without fats. In addition, such gas stations are also Contain Sugar and nutritional supplements imitating the oil texture. The same concerns And dairy products, such as cottage cheese: calcium is better absorbed with fats.
The texture is, in addition to taste, another indicator by which fat -free products lose their fat brothers. So, for example, cheese, produced from low -fat milk, does not hold shape poorly and does not melt so well when heated. To fix it, in it Add Stabilizers, fat substitutes and thickeners that can be harmful to health. And the taste is still not as good as that of ordinary cheese.
In addition, fat in the diet Raises a feeling of satiety. If a person eats fat -containing foods, he is faster and consumes less food. Small products, although they contain fewer calories (although, as we have already found out, not always), but not so nutritious, which means it is likely that a person will eat more and this compensates for the very difference in calories.
In the 80-90s in the USA it was a rampant enthusiasm low -fat diets and low -fat products, but despite this percent People suffering from obesity steadily grew. This is partly due to the fact that it is very easy to get into a psychological trap with low -fat products.
In the West there is such a term as Snackwell’s effect. Snackwell’s cookies were incredibly popular in the USA in the 90s. The brand produced sweets with low fat and this attracted millions of buyers. Nevertheless, in calories, they almost did not differ from competitors with the usual fat content due to a large amount of sugar and other carbohydrates. At the same time, it seemed to consumers that since it was a fat -free product, it is more “healthy” and dietary and it can eat it in any quantity. If with ordinary cookies they would stop at one or two, Snackwell’s ate in packs. Nutritionists They thinkthat this effect refers to any products that seem less harmful to customers: to low -fat and low -carb food, soda without calories and anything else. If the harm seems less, people begin to use more.
Thus, low -fat products are far from always less high -calorie than “original” versions with a full fat content, as they often contain more carbohydrates. In addition, with such products there is a risk of overeating, since psychologically it seems to people that there is nothing harmful in them and you can not limit themselves. Fat helps to absorb vitamins, but their substitutes - no, they do not bear any benefit, which means that these are meaningless calories. In addition, some researchers believe that such products can be harmful. To avoid trap of low -fat products, you need to read the composition, check the food value and observe the measure, otherwise you can gain weight instead of losing weight.
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