We buy low-fat products

It may seem intuitive that eating fat would make us fat, but it’s not that simple. In a 2008 study in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found that people on low-carb diets lost 62% more body weight than those trying to cut out fat. Many misconceptions about the role of fat in our diets have been addressed in the past decade.

We choose low-fat products because we believe they are healthier for us, but what we may not realize is that in order to make low-fat products taste better, manufacturers often add more sugar, flavoring and stabilizers which are bad for our health. What’s important is not to cut out fat all together, but to cut out unhealthy fats. Our bodies need unsaturated fats. Unsaturated fats have been associated with lower cholesterol and are found in foods such as avocado, oily fish, nuts, oils and seeds.