Diet foods - do they help or hinder?

Diet myth #11 Diet foods are the answer

Food manufacturers have plenty invested in keeping you dieting? You know all those low-fat, no fat and sugar-free products?

If you haven't noticed the quantity and variety of these nonsense foods have increased exponentially in recent years. Our grocery store shelves are laden.

“Grocery sales of all low-fat foods (note this doesn’t include sugar free foods) amounted to $18 billion in 1993, and have been estimated to grow to $30 billion by 1997 and heaven knows what they might be by 2009 then!”

He goes on to write that when shoppers were asked about nine types of food engineered to be lower in fat, they found that in every category they were eating more low-fat items than in the year before, mostly in the snack food industry. That category produced less than 5% of the industry's total sales in 1994 but is expected to grow to a third of the market by 2000, according to the association.

So, let's do a logic check on this....The United States is the low-fat, no fat and sugar-free capital of the world. It's where people have the largest variety of diet foods, where they eat the most processed food and follow the most low calorie diets. And um...are Americans getting thinner or healthier?

Research doesn't seem to think so... it seems to think this is just another diet myth out there.

For the period from 1960-1962, 24.3% (a quarter) of the population was considered obese: by 1988-1994 it was 34.9% (or a third). In the younger age groups: for the period 1988-1991, 21% of adolescents were obese, up from 15% in the period from 1976 to 1980.

Hmmm.... makes you think doesn't it?

Not only that, but they are really eroders of our health. They put chemicals and additives into our body, increase our cholestrol and .... oh, don't get me started. But instead check out this report on food advertising lies and how those food marketers con us.

How do diet foods affect our eating and health?

Those who believed they were eating low-fat and low-calorie foods ate far more than the other group.

And if food labels, give a long list of scientific names you don’t recognize, that food is hardly likely to be healthy. Remember: food manufacturers and advertisers are in the business of selling you their product.

In face the food industry is rife with food myths and food lies.
Your business is protecting and promoting your health and for a really really simple way to eat - check out this really simple method of eating. Don’t expect food companies or diet promoters to do a job that might sometimes be in opposition to their goal. They'll do whatever they can get away with.

Researchers from the Sansum Medical Research Institute at Santa Barbara, who specialize in diabetes research say in their book "Lights Out": “ there was never really any scientific basis for the low fat movement, only a financial one”

Here’s a summary of their stand on sugar: “Unrefined carbohydrates qualify as whole foods; refined carbohydrates do not....(they are) more like drugs. Refined sugar, in fact may not be food at all. It probably should be listed as a chemical additive.... an anti-nutrient.”

And their position on fat goes like this: “ Fats are essential. They are necessary for all cellular function. No fat, no hormones - and that means cancer. ...Danger! Danger! Fast-food chain restaurants have switched over to cooking with polyunsaturated fats...."

"Remember, the words ‘fast’ and ‘food’ do not occur together in nature” ....Eskimos have never had to visit the cardiologist or suffer through chemotherapy. They eat right and workshop the gods of nature. Don’t eat any fat that didn’t start out alive. ....Don’t eat anything labeled “low fat” or “nonfat.”

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