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I doubt such "shock and awe" tactics have served to avert people away from indulging in pure gluttony - any more than Rush Limbaugh has disgusted people away from right wing theology. Strange creatures we be.

Fat is not bad for you and it never has been. Excessive carbs is what causes you to gain weight and store it as fat. Carbs raise your blood sugars, your body releases insulin and the carbs get stored as fat and as long as your insulin levels are raised you can't access the energy stored in your fat cells. This has been known since the 1800's. Read "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes to see how the myth of carbs good, fat bad got started and is responsible for the high levels of obesity, type 2 diabetes and most likely alzhiemers ( which starting to be known as type 3 diabetes). Fat is good for you!

Bacon is the candy of meats.

I lived for a year in Arkansas, where a lot of people have a high fat, not high carb, diet. Thus, being 100+ pounds overweight is normal. You are what you eat, and fat is bad for you, no matter what any of the fad diets say. Good Calories, Bad Calories sure sounds like a fad diet. When calories in > calories out, you gain weight. There are no good or bad calories, only good or bad amounts of calories.

Thanks Rob. Good to see some have not succumbed to the fat is evil mantra.

Although I think excessive anything causes fat storage.

People need to be aware that they only need to intake around 2000 calories a day and that latte and cookie at starbucks is nearly 3/4s of that.

You know that saying that people eventually look like their pets? Well, I've seen that food walking around the mall. My God, I couldn't get past page seven. I was afraid I'd catch something. I guess
"What are people thinking?" doesn't even come close. We are what we eat.

Why is fat bad? Indeed, many kinds of fat are essential to our brain and proper functioning of the body. Also, flavour.

Get with the times.

well, even though i'm not contributing anything i just want some tips on how to loose my weight. i do some times go to gyms.,and reduced the level of taking fats but yet i havent seen any change and this fatness of a thing do disturb me because i'm just a young lady of 19years and weighs almost 83kg. is that not so embrassing enough?

DaCynic,
I won't argue what you saw in Arkansas as to what you saw people eat but I doubt you observed what people eat throughout the day, only what you saw them eat at that time you observed them. What to you is a high fat diet?French fries that get served with everything are carbs, not fat. Bread and potatoes are carbs and seem to get served with everything. If your calories out exceed your calories in it makes you hungry, not lose weight.

As to the book I referred to above; it is not a fad diet. It doesn't even proscribe a diet. It merely explains many of the misunderstandings and myths associated with the current diets reccomended by the heart and stroke fondations. The book has over 60 pages in the bibliography of many research results and peer reviewed medical journals from many countries. Your casual observations made in Arkansas without anything even close to understanding of what is in this books renders your comments worthless. This book attempts to show that there is more to weight gain and weight loss then what is poteyed in the media.

Have you actually stopped to ask why/if fat is bad, and whether it is responsible for the current obesity epidemic which has occurred during twenty years of a "low fat fad' regimen imposed on us by "experts" who are unable to support their fat phobia with one properly-conducted scientific study?

The website is called this is why your fat. I doubt those viewing the site will read "this is why your fat" and follow their viewing by eating what is on the site.The site is obviously showing how ridiculous our eating habits are and attributing those eating habits to obesity. Personally the site made me want to run for a stick of celery.

DaCynic talked about Arkansas and high fat low carb diet and everyone was 100 pounds overweight.

Reality is their diet was high fat, high carb and that's why they are obese...let's not forget anything cooked with flour is a carb that includes fired chicken or chicken fried steak with country gravy and biscuits and homemade apple pies and so on. The fat on its own is not the problem it is fat and carbs eaten together that cause obesity and the other health problems associated it.

I think that you should all get your facts straight. Theres no way eating a bunch of fat is good for you. Cutting out carbs makes people stupid. Your brain needs carbs to function properly, not to mention what eating all that fat will do to your insides. There should be a carb to fat to protien ratio. I am a fitness addict and i most def dont cut carbs out of my diet and opt for a pound of bacon. People just need to eat healthy and exercise.. Its pretty simple.

People getting their facts straight is an interesting comment. Not a single study has found fat to make people gain weight. There have been studies but never that prove that eating more fat makes you more fat. In FACT a mediterranean diet or low carb diet contributes to lower overall cholesterol. Low calorie diets have been known to do the same thing, but cause stress levels to incease. These are the FACTS and if you want the facts you should research them.