The fear of fat started in 1948.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Fat is considered the cause of various diseases. So there are food products that are made with levels fat low. But do they all make people healthier?
Food with high levels of fat, whether sausage, mayonnaise or butter causes pain and increases body weight. For many people, a variety of foods light or a lower fat content so an alternative. But where does our fear of fat actually come from?
Its history begins in 1948. At that time, researchers wanted to reveal the main reason for death in the US, namely heart attacks. At that time, more than 5,000 people from the Framingham area took part in an observational study, in what was then the largest in medical history.
Nine years later, the first results emerged. The main causes of heart attacks are high blood pressure, smoking and excess body weight!
The reason for the excess body weight was also clear to the researchers. Namely: Americans eat too much and are too fatty!
In Germany the situation is similar
Fat in food is like an enemy that must be fought. This also applies in Germany. Because in Germany, where the economic situation is very good, it is also found that more and more people with large bodies are dying of heart attacks.
The conclusion that fat in the heart is the cause of death was immediately followed by various actions. The food industry has also reacted.
In the US, low fat or low fat content is even a political theme. In 1980, Senator George McGovern called for the establishment of a national diet goal.
For the first time in history a course has been established for consuming healthy diets for the American people.
Do not touch the fat and cholesterol bad effect! That’s the motto. Soon after, a wave of aerobic exercise started to emerge. People combat excess body weight at all costs.
But neither exercise nor low-fat products can reduce the body weight of the average American and German. Otherwise. Continue to increase!
Gaya diet Robert Atkins
But with products low fat and the label bearing the heart, the public organization for cardiovascular health in the US continues to uphold the myth of the dangers of fat. Only Robert Atkins opposed.
It propagates the consumption of fatty foods, and not products low fat which has a high sugar content. The Atkins diet also includes meat, eggs and lobster. Easy to follow, and many people like it.
The first doubt about low fat products …
sumber : DW
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