Calories intake remains similar in most of such options
“Energy-dense foods must be consumed to a certain limit” this is the recommendation of the latest international report on diet and cancer issued by the American Institute for Cancer Research. The cancer-focused report has been aimed to promote weight control as there are true to life links between several types of cancers and obesity.
In the report such foods as are high in fat, processed carbohydrates and sugar have been categorized as “Energy-dense food”. Usually, food with high fat, carbohydrates and added sugar are replete with calories but some energy-dense foods like nuts or seeds have unprocessed carbohydrates and provide many useful nutrients. It is interesting to note that these foods are not associated to weight gain when they are taken reasonably as a part of fortified diet.
But in America a large number of people tend to choose other types of energy-dense foods that according to this research are linked to high chances of weight gain and obesity. These days its quite trendy to choose a low-fat or fat-free forms of these energy-dense foods but one must keep in mind that when these reduced-fat options are consumed in an excessive amount, they aren’t always prove lower in calories. For instance, before super-sizing, a usual blueberry muffin, which was purchased from America’s food supply had around 250 calories and was less than three inches in diameter. Now, coffee shops and bakeries offer muffins with as much as twice the calories as it was before super-sizing. Even if a low fat muffin is chosen, it still contains 290 to 340 calories. In short, this super-sized low fat version has higher calories than the previous smaller one.
Low-fat foods that took a start as super-rich products also mislead sometimes. There are around 270 calories in a one-cup portion of usual vanilla ice cream while in low-fat versions that reduce the fat from 14 grams to 5grams have around 210 calories foe the same one-cup portion. Low-fat peanut butter is another thing that has low fat that the usual one but added sugar, soy protein and starches do not allow calories to drop.
But foods like cheese, milk, meat do save calories when chosen as low –fat as it means to choose less cholesterol-increasing saturated fat and lesser calories. However, if it is difficult for you to live with fat-free cheese, it would be worthwhile to save 20 calories/ ounce with low-fat cheese.
In a nutshell, increased calories that make weight control difficult can be avoided if some lower-fat foods are preferred to higher-fat foods we usually consume. You can easily do that while staying away from those double-sized low-fat versions that are lower in fat but not in calories and not choosing those light versions that have other calories rich ingredients like added sugar , starches and soy proteins.
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