Tip of the Week - Obesity: Cutting Through The Fat

Obesity is a very pressing issue and is surrounded by many conflicting ideas on how we can beat it. You need to eat less carbohydrates, you need to eat only carbohydrates. Don’t eat salt but salt alternatives can cause cancer!

What are we to do? After reading a very interesting book called Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard Heath and Dan Heath, I read about an interesting study by two researchers. Steve Booth-Butterfield and Bill Reger from a West Virginia University cut through the confusion and found the following:

If people switched from 1% milk to whole milk the average diet will immediately attain the acceptable levels of unsaturated fat (I did not know that one glass of whole milk is the same as eating 5 slices of bacon!).

Now this seems simplistic and it kind of is. The point I am trying to make is that being healthy does not have to be as confusing as it currently is. There is one rule that will apply to all facets of being healthy: Portion Control. Everything you eat is bad for you and everything is good for you.

The revelation: You can eat a little bit of everything. That is it, that is all. No need to count calories and no need to remove entire food groups from your diet, just do not eat a lot of one food group. You are inteligent enough to know not to eat a large amount of fatty products, they just taste so good So moderate your intake.

It really is that simple, till next time, stay healthy.

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