Fat, fat and more fat. This section was interesting for me because I am left unsure as to how I should really feel. When mentioned that we have no receptors for fat and we could just continue to eat it until the cows come home is slightly terrifying. This combined with the less-restrictve measures on fat content in food makes for an interesting mind set. I don't know that much about fats and I can honestly say that I have fallen for those times when the new diet craze mentions not eating a certain kind of fat. I am still unable to explain why those fats were bad or why I needed to eat less of them at that time. This is a topic that I need to educate myself further on so that I can truly understand all of the different facets of fats. What about you? Do you feel like you are as educated about fats as you should be or as you would like to think you are?
I've always tended to think that a calorie was a calorie. Naturally fatty products are high in calories, therefore I tend to avoid them where I can, but I'm not sure there is an enormous difference in the value of a normal calorie vs. a fat calorie. That one guy we mentioned lost forty pounds eating Twinkies. Perhaps it is not so much what we consume as it is how much we consume that is the problem.
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