The Food Pyramid and Fats

What did you learn about the food pyramid? fats?

That the common conception about all fats being bad is wrong. There are good fats, HDL, that should be high in your body and bad fats, LDL and Triglycerol, that need to be kept lower. Also that the traditional food pyramid is not a real nutritional guideline, but a piece of propaganda heavily influenced by lobbyists and big corporations. It is also very vague in everything it recommends including terms such as, limit intake to as low as possible instead of hard numbers or percents.

Did anything surprise you?

That Crete, the country with the highest fat intake has the lowest number of people afflicted with heart diseases. It seems that they are using lots of good fats instead of in America where a lot of the fats people eat are the bad fats. It was also surprising about how much Americans have cut down on their fat intake and how sadly lots of that was the good fats, so now while Americans are eating less fat they are mostly just eating the bad fats.

What types of fat do you mostly eat? What can you change in your diet to incorporate healthier foods?

I am not sure what fats I mostly eat, whenever possible I try to use good oils like olive oil instead of vegetable oil. I think something to improve would be to look at the labels on food to check whether they have bad fats in them. I didn't used to know which fats were bad, I always got confused but now that I know I can stay away from saturated fats and gravitate more towards unsaturated fats.