8Fat Free/Zero Calories
Fat free versions of foods may seem great at first glance, but you're actually better
off eating the full fat variant. Don't mistake "fat free" for calorie free, fat free foods
often contain more calories than regular foods. When you remove the fat from food you also
remove most of the taste. So to counter that, food manufacturers replace the fat with sugars,
sweeteners, thickeners and salt. These can all be much worse for you than fat.
You see, it's not fat that's the problem, it's the type of fat. There are two types
of unhealthy fats: saturated fats and trans fats. Similarly there are two types of healthy
fats: monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats. Fat free foods are stripped of any healthy fats they may have had and replaced with unhealthy sugars and salts.