It's avoiding saturated fat that has made people fat!

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Since the 1970s food companies and restaurants have gradually turned to using hydrogenated vegetable oils and stopped using butter, lard and coconut oil - because they're all more expensive. Coconut oil is made from coconuts, lard from goose fat and butter from cow's milk - all of which are in less abundance than, say, corn which is used to make corn oil, or the crops used to make rapeseed oil.

Not everyone stopped using coconut oil, butter or lard voluntarily. Some were forced to by customer demand. Basically a poorly researched scientific study justified the new cheaper partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and people started demanding food was cooked in something low in saturated fat. As the article I link to below says, saturated fat sounds awful. To a person who is not fully educated about nutrition saturated fat seems evil. It's so full of calories. And yet what almost nobody realises is it's so much better in flavour you don't have to cook with much of it! And saturated fat is perfect for frying with because when heated it doesn't result in transmogrified fats or "trans fats" which are on the whole responsible for today's obesity crisis.

The way to prove this is true is to simply look up which nations have a problem with obesity. America and the UK, two countries with massive fast food takeaway and pre-packaged ready meal markets are prime examples of where the problem is coming from. In France people eat more or less the same amount of calories but prepare almost all their meals at home and when they eat out the food is cooked traditionally using plenty of saturated fats and accordingly France has almost as little obesity as countries which are far poorer and don't have access to our modern factory-produced foods.

Source of information:

http://www.treelight.com/health/nutriti ... dOils.html

Partially hydrogenated vegetable oil is pretty rare these days, if my memory of readings is correct. Mostly present in unnatural peanut butter, this turns into trans fat, a very unhealthy fat that is known to cause a plentiful amount of diseases. Saturated fats on the other hand, if eaten in healthy amounts generally doesn't cause many problems. Heck, I eat lbs of hamburger per week and I am in great health!

Lard is pig fat.

It's eating more and exercising less that makes people fat - the lack of self-initiative. The blame is not on external factors but rests squarely on those people that eat too much and exercise too little. Fatties don't want to admit that they made themselves ugly, so they try to play a victim card (Glandular disorder, "big bones," emotional disorder, virus, et cetera), hoping that people will pity them and stop condemning them for being fat, lazy, and gluttonous.

Solution: Eat less and exercise more!

QFT
it would be triple expensive if it WERE goose fat.

Merle

Yesterday I had two slices of bread toasted with cheese on top, a fried tomato, fried mushrooms, fried onions, a third of a can of baked beans and a fried egg. All the frying yesterday was done in sunflower oil.

Today I had exactly the same meal but all the frying was done in butter. I had muesli with whole cow's milk for breakfast yesterday and exactly the same today. Today I've lost weight from my mid-section and cheeks. Yesterday and the few days before that I had an unpleasant pain around the area where the heart or liver are, not sure which since anatomy isn't my speciality. Today I haven't. I've been having these fried meals for a week so it seems obvious. My experience is telling me what people cook their food in is vital.

The key point is the human body has limits and one of its limits is that it doesn't like hydrogenated cooking oils. They get stuck in the body for a while because it has trouble processing them and inevitably if they're used for cooking your food regularly it builds up and makes you very fat. Fats like butter and coconut oil on the other hand immediately get transferred into energy so it's a matter of either using that energy by exercising or not and maybe putting on a bit of weight. With hydrogenated oils you have no choice.