Low fat
December 2007
Lite this, low-fat that, 99 per cent fat-free something else. These days, it seems that whatever your poison, there’s a low-fat version to satisfy your hunger. Which sounds like great news for your body’s fat content, not to mention your waistline. So why, in an age where everything from ice-cream to salad dressing has a low-fat alternative, is Australia’s obesity problem getting bigger and bigger?
So big, in fact, that overweight and obesity rates have more than doubled over the past 20 years, so that around seven million of us are currently overweight or obese?While low-fat foods can’t take all the blame for the nation’s weight problem, it turns out they do have a few things to answer for.
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