Full Fat Foods are back in Fashion
A report by Credit Suisse Research on consumption of fats in diets has revealed a surprising new trend. Full fat foods seem to be in vogue again after people have avoided buying or consuming them for years.
The report states that sales of whole milk in the US for the first half of this year grew by 11 percent, while sales of skim milk shrank by 14 percent. Egg consumption has grown by two percent in the last 12 months, with organic egg sales seeing the most growth at 21 percent. And sales of butter rose 14 percent last year and increased another six percent in the first few months of this year.
These surprising results have been linked to a growing desire among consumers for natural, unprocessed foods. The logic makes sense on some level — low-fat and non-fat foods may have undergone more processing; therefore, their full-fat versions should be more “natural.”
Currently, nutritional guidelines advise eating no more than 65 grams of fat and no more than 20 grams of saturated fat a day for a 2,000 calorie diet. One cup of whole milk has eight grams of fat (12 percent of your daily recommended intake) and 4.6 grams of saturated fat (22 percent of your daily recommended intake).
‘Food porn’ bad for Weight Management, say scientists
The obsession with Instagramming meals could be contributing to Britain’s obesity crisis, according to scientists at the Oxford University. The study warns that the growing popularity of ‘food porn’ and television shows about food makes it harder to resist eating.
Writing in the journal Brain and Cognition, the researchers said the rise of celebrity chefs such as Nigella Lawson has led to a greater exposure of “visually succulent cooking procedures and beautifully portrayed dishes.”Moreover, the shelves of the bookstores are increasingly sagging under the weight of all those cookbooks filled with high-definition and digitally-enhanced food images. “At the same time, the last few years have seen a dramatic rise in the dining public’s obsession with taking images of the foods that they are about to eat, often sharing those images via their social media networks.”
The study then went on to suggest that these programmes, books, and social media posts “glamorise food without necessarily telling a balanced story when it comes to the societal, health and environmental consequences of excess consumption.”
Lead author Professor Charles Spence, of Oxford’s department of experimental psychology, warned that constant exposure to food porn could be “inadvertently exacerbating our desire for food”, causing us to eat more often than we should.
Full Fat Foods are back in FashionA report by Credit Suisse Research on consumption of fats in diets has revealed a surprising new trend. Full fat foods seem to be in vogue again after people have avoided buying or consuming them for years.The report states that sales of whole milk in the US for the first half of this year grew by 11 percent, while sales of skim milk shrank by 14 percent. Egg consumption has grown by two percent in the last 12 months, with organic egg sales seeing the most growth at 21 percent. And sales of butter rose 14 percent last year and increased another six percent in the first few months of this year.These surprising results have been linked to a growing desire among consumers for natural, unprocessed foods. The logic makes sense on some level — low-fat and non-fat foods may have undergone more processing; therefore, their full-fat versions should be more “natural.”Currently, nutritional guidelines advise eating no more than 65 grams of fat and no more than 20 grams of saturated fat a day for a 2,000 calorie diet. One cup of whole milk has eight grams of fat (12 percent of your daily recommended intake) and 4.6 grams of saturated fat (22 percent of your daily recommended intake).‘Food porn’ bad for Weight Management, say scientistsThe obsession with Instagramming meals could be contributing to Britain’s obesity crisis, according to scientists at the Oxford University. The study warns that the growing popularity of ‘food porn’ and television shows about food makes it harder to resist eating.Writing in the journal Brain and Cognition, the researchers said the rise of celebrity chefs such as Nigella Lawson has led to a greater exposure of “visually succulent cooking procedures and beautifully portrayed dishes.”Moreover, the shelves of the bookstores are increasingly sagging under the weight of all those cookbooks filled with high-definition and digitally-enhanced food images. “At the same time, the last few years have seen a dramatic rise in the dining public’s obsession with taking images of the foods that they are about to eat, often sharing those images via their social media networks.”The study then went on to suggest that these programmes, books, and social media posts “glamorise food without necessarily telling a balanced story when it comes to the societal, health and environmental consequences of excess consumption.”Lead author Professor Charles Spence, of Oxford’s department of experimental psychology, warned that constant exposure to food porn could be “inadvertently exacerbating our desire for food”, causing us to eat more often than we should.
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