Have you noticed that many foods offered up as low fat are high sodium?
The low fat/high sodium thing is pretty common.
Alas. Salt and fat are the two easiest ways to make something tasty (in the instant-mouth-appeal sense), and they're both cheap. Ipso facto...
Given a choice, I avoid the high-salt, and eat the fat. "Food science" has finally come around to my view that fat is not inherently evil, so long as you're eating unmodified natural fats in non-industrial quantities. You simply cannot hurt yourself by eating too much olive oil (though it might be fun to try). Butter is less wonderful, but is a health food when compared with any partially-hydrogenated tropical oil.
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2007-01-04 15:15 (UTC)The low fat/high sodium thing is pretty common.
Alas. Salt and fat are the two easiest ways to make something tasty (in the instant-mouth-appeal sense), and they're both cheap. Ipso facto...
Given a choice, I avoid the high-salt, and eat the fat. "Food science" has finally come around to my view that fat is not inherently evil, so long as you're eating unmodified natural fats in non-industrial quantities. You simply cannot hurt yourself by eating too much olive oil (though it might be fun to try). Butter is less wonderful, but is a health food when compared with any partially-hydrogenated tropical oil.
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