Low Fat Diet

For decades, the approach to losing weight has been a low fat diet lifestyle, which means staying away from fatty foods and instead, focusing on healthy carbohydrates, plentiful fruits and vegetables and other natural foods. This has been deemed a healthy lifestyle whether you are trying to lose weight or not and is often the recommended eating regimen for people with high cholesterol, a high risk of heart disease, or other health afflictions.

There is some evidence that the low fat diet may, over time, promote high blood sugar levels, high triglycerides and low HDL cholesterol.

Everyone needs some sort of fat in our diets, and in actuality, some types of fat are healthy. Some good fats are liquid oils found in most plants, as well as the fats in nuts, seeds, and many fish. Even on a low fat diet, consumption of these foods can be recommended and beneficial to your health.

The primary rival of the low fat diet today is the low carb diet, which allows fats but eliminates carbohydrates from one's eating lifestyle. Studies have indicated that both diet types seem to have the same weight loss results over a period of a year.