Sugar Free and Fat Free

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Sugar free and fat free are buzz words for weight conscious eating. Call them what you want, but what they happen to be are artificial substances made for human consumption. They are said to be save for human use by the FDA and the food manufacturers.

Many of these are touted as good for you because they cut either fat or sugar. To the consumer that equals fewer calories, which is not necessarily true. Sugar provides bulk to a product and the substitutes for the bulk are ether more flour or other grains. This puts calories right back in.

Almost every major food company knows that low sugar and low fat conjures images of healthier food with fewer calories. According to a survey done by the Grocery Manufacturers Association, about 50 percent of all shoppers wanted to purchase products with reduced sugar. The popularity of the sugar substitute products among weight loss crowd is propelling sales of these sugar-free foods to new heights. The billion plus dollar industry is working on better ways to replicate the taste of sugar.

The confusion is that sugar-free foods sell and are used as part of weight loss strategies, while being the culprits behind producing more overweight Americans. To support this people like Dr. Katz, a nutrition specialist and professor of public health at the Yale University School of Medicine, said the he has observed that people who consume a lot of artificially sweetened foods end up eating an excess of foods with regular sugar. The reason is the “food” with artificial sweeteners set you up to crave more sweet food.

The real problem is that the public considers diet sodas and other processed food as part of a healthy diet. They are chemical concoction that has prompted safety concerns.  Dr Susan Schiffman, a sweetener specialist and professor of medical psychology at Duke University Medical Center has safety concerns about sucralose. “This is a product that has been reported by the Food and Drug Administration to be a weak mutagenic in humans.”

Saccharin and aspartame have also prompted concerns from many health professionals. There is a lot of concern about putting these type substances in a growing list of products. Besides the usual diet sodas and sugarless gum, low sugar and artificial sweeteners are turning up in fruit juices, cookies, bread, ice cream, flavored milk, and maple syrup. Many times processed sweeteners gets into peoples food, because they are following either a low fat or low carbohydrate diet.

By avoiding fat you also avoid foods that may be needed for good health. The right fats come in a whole food form. Processed low-fat products are not natural and many times have more sugar and chemicals added for taste. We are a nation with a growing obesity problem while being obsessed with shopping for low carbohydrate and low fat “food.” Sugar free and fat free are two buzz words without any meaning behind them

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