When my friends ask about nutrition, explaining fat is the very first thing I try to do.
Eating fat does not necessarily make you fat, nor is it in itself a bad at all. Many fats are among the best things for your brain and heart. At the same time, fat-free foods can quite easily be bullshit.
A pound of sugar is fat-free, after all, but has an insane calorific value. (110 per oz)
Sugar is 100% total carbs.
A ounce of feta cheese has plenty of fat, and less calories per ounce than zero-fat sugar (feta is 75 per oz).
Feta cheese is 75% fat, 20% protein, 5% total carbs.
Then I try to show them some fat-free products that nonetheless has immense amounts of sugar and calories.
I think that using this topic as a lead-in has been the most effective way to get my friends to change their diets and consider what they eat.
Eating fat does not necessarily make you fat, nor is it in itself a bad at all. Many fats are among the best things for your brain and heart. At the same time, fat-free foods can quite easily be bullshit.
A pound of sugar is fat-free, after all, but has an insane calorific value. (110 per oz)
Sugar is 100% total carbs.
A ounce of feta cheese has plenty of fat, and less calories per ounce than zero-fat sugar (feta is 75 per oz).
Feta cheese is 75% fat, 20% protein, 5% total carbs.
Then I try to show them some fat-free products that nonetheless has immense amounts of sugar and calories.
I think that using this topic as a lead-in has been the most effective way to get my friends to change their diets and consider what they eat.