Do you think you know what FAT FREE really means?

If you think your Fat Free food is not going to make you FAT, think again. The fat free industry is misleading and almost 88% of the population is falling for it. I used to fall for it too till I took my time and learn and understand nutrition really well. I know it kind of complicated but let me make simple to you or give you a simple formula about nutrition and its relation to our body.
Nutrients are life-sustaining substances found in food. They work together to supply the body with energy and structural materials, and to regulate growth (good growth and bad growth), maintenance, and repair of the body’s tissue.
Protein, Carbohydrate, Fat, Vitamins, Minerals, and water are the six major classes of nutrients. So everything we will be eating would at least have these elements.
The Fat free industry want to make people think that fat free food is not going to make you fat .Their assumption is people will read Fat Free and because the vast majority of us don't like food saturated with fat and then we will buy their fat free products; this tactics or commercial has worked and still working and that is why the nation still getting fatter. What I think this is with all the fat free products that we have now on the market you would think that people will get skinnier; right? Wrong. So it up to you to take a hard look and see that something is wrong here and take a common sense approach .I always try to explain this to people so they can change they way the view food.
Let do this simple arithmetic about calories using only Proteins,Carb and Fat.
Let say my friend Travis is eating this Fat free product that have:
0 gram of fat (yes it is fat free so no fat),9 grams of carb and 12 grams of protein
And another friend Randy is eating a non fat free product that has:
4 grams of fat, 4 grams of carb and 4 grams of protein.
If they both were to lose weight,who will drop more weight ? Yes Randy will lose more weight than Travis,and if they both were to gain weight ,Travis will gain more weight than Randy.
Travis total combined calories is 84 and randy total calories is 68 ,so in case you didn’t read my previous blog to know how many calorie protein ,carbs and fat have ,here is a little reminder for you.
1 gram of protein has 4 cal
1gram of carb has 4 cal
1 gram of fat has 9 cal
In travis case he was eating a fat free product that has 0 g of fat 9 gram of carb and 12 grams of protein so
O g of fat x 9 =0 fat cal
9 g of carb x 4= 36 carb cal
12g of protein x 4 =48 protein cal
So travis ate 0 +36+48 =84cal
In randy case he ate a non fat free product that has 4 grams of fat 4 grams of carbs and 4 grams of protein so
4 g of fat x 9 =36 fat cal
4 g of carb x 4 =16 carb cal
4 g of protein x 4 =16 protein cal
So Randy ate 36+16+16=68cal
Now you see.So when you eating ,don’t think about fat free ,you might not be putting fat calorie in your system but you might get Fat from carbs and proteins.Just think about calories.
The next time you buy a fat free product before you consume it, read the label, and like I always say: Fat does not make you FAT;Calories make you FAT.
For all of you guys who drink diet soda; think again.Remember that Diet Dr pepper commercial;(there is nothing diet about Diet Dr pepper) He really means it. Lol,