Yet as a country, for the last 40 years, we've been told low-fat, low-calorie diets work. You might lose a number of pounds but after six months you start gaining it back.
Low-fat doesn't make you lose weight long-term. When you look carefully at the data, there's no real evidence that this approach works. You're telling me that the advice to eat a low-fat diet is a bunch of hooey?Ī. Taubes spoke with the AARP Bulletin about his new non-diet book that could change the way you eat. Finally, he helps us see why we need to run the other way as fast as our portly legs can carry us if we truly want to live longer, slimmer lives. Taubes' book is a primer on how the hormones and enzymes that control the body's fat storage really work, how what we've been eating has mucked up our systems, and how we got on a such a faulty dieting path. It's a vicious cycle that's been weighing us down for decades. What's more, he explains, we eat too much not out of gluttony but because our bodies have been conditioned - by our own eating behavior - to crave the types of foods that go straight to our hips and muffin tops. It's the carbohydrates we eat that prompt our fat cells to suck up our energy, making exercise a chore.
We're not fat, he says, because we eat too much or sit around watching TV - it's the other way around: We sit on the couch because we're fat. If that's not hard enough to swallow, Taubes reveals that - surprise! - fatty foods aren't actually bad for our hearts. Why? Most "skim" or low-fat foods (think skim latte, low-fat cream cheese) simply replace the fat with carbs. In fact, it has coincided with an obesity epidemic. Unfortunately, the low-fat diet we all thought was the solution to reducing our weight and waists, based on the "calories in/calories out" paradigm and the pervasive idea that fat-rich foods are the enemy, hasn't made us skinny. This isn't some newfangled discovery: It's been known for decades.
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