Are Government "healthy eating" guidelines making us fat?
I’m not normally a big fan of the Daily Mail but this article is worth reading - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1247216/The-Big-Fat-Lies-Brita…
Finally more people are questioning the crusade against fat, and the government’s “healthy eating” guidelines, the main purpose of which seems to be to make the food companies richer.
Despite being made to feel like naughty children, we ARE actually following government advice. Calorific intake between the years 1974 and 2004 decreased by 20 per cent. We are eating about 20 per cent more fruit and vegetables than in the Seventies.
And we are doing approximately 25 per cent more exercise than we were in 1997.
But sadly we’re getting fatter and fatter!
The Food Standards Agency says: ‘Most of us should eat more starchy foods - try to include at least one starchy food with each of your main meals. ‘Some people think starchy foods are fattening, but gram for gram they contain less than half the calories of fat.’
They are still talking about us as if our bodies were like a bucket that you put calories into, take them out via exercise and the rest goes into fat. It is not that simple! As I talk about in more detail in my home study course, too much starch messes up the insulin response in your body, and you can then put on weight EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT EATING TOO MANY CALORIES.
I don’t advocate banning starchy foods from your diet, but we do need to let go of this idea that cereals and so forth are healthy and fats are bad. Then you can eat natural, nourising foods that your body needs.
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