A lot of low-fat foods "make up" for the lack of fat by adding sugar.
I noticed for example there is a nonfat chocolate milk that has 150
cal per 8 oz. glass. Nonfat milk only has 80 calories, so while this
might be essentially nonfat, they have added a lot of sugar to more
than make up for the calories. Also I read today that once something
gets the label of "low fat" people who are overweight tend to eat a
lot more of it. They did an experiment at a movie theater where they
sold or gave away (I don't know which) granola. There were 2 kinds
regular and low fat...only they were actually the same product, just
labelled wrong. The researchers found overweight people ate a lot more
of the "low fat" labelled product, then overweight people ate of the
"regular" product.

I wish they could develop a good fat substitute like they have for
artificial sweetners. The Olestra just doesn't seem to be that useful.
dkw

Archived from group: alt>food>fat-free