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Fat makes you fat.
by the-dude 5y ago
Fat makes you fat.
- Ygg2 5y agoNot necessarily. Eat only fat and you'll enter ketosis, where most of your fat will be converted into sugars.
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- xondono 5y agoThat’s the point of GP. It’s not true, but it sounds reasonable.
- Ygg2 5y agoBut why comment at all, if they are agreeing?
- binchou 5y agothe italics are working as scare quotes here
- mewpmewp2 5y agoTo add to the discussion?
- AussieWog93 5y agoTowards the end of the 20th century, as the obesity epidemic was starting to become a real concern, the general layman's (and possibly medical?) understanding in Western countries was that to lose weight you should consume less dietary fats. This lead to a lot of low-fat diets and products that advertised themselves as "99% fat free", "fat reduced" etc. - many of which contained extra sugar. Of course, now we know this belief was not only wrong, but harmful. At the time, though it "felt" true. I am almost certain this cultural phenomenon is what GP was referencing.
- willis936 5y agoA coworker once asked me "What if we called sugar fat? Would people eat less of it?".
- jjk166 5y agoI know I drink a lot less coke ever since I saw just how well it works as a rust remover.
- JohnWhigham 5y agoProbably. It's a tribute to how monumentally successful Big Agro convinced America that fat was bad over the past 80 years. We're only just now starting to come out of those dark ages and we still have a long way to go.