The Deal with Fat
Dietary science is complicated-- one day something is good for you and the next it's not. Learn what we DO know about fat chemistry in this episode of SciShow. Snatoms Kickstarter IS still...
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We don’t talk a lot about dietary science here on SciShow because, frankly, it can seem like a hype factory designed more to generate clicks than to generate understanding. People want to hear what to eat and what not to eat in order to be healthy. The problem with that... is that it’s complicated. It’s too complicated to fit into a headline. Eating lots of fat will make you unhealthy, but so will eating lots of anything. Studies show that cutting fat intake is useless when attempting to help people lose weight if those calories are replaced by something else, which they tend to be. Now fat is relatively straightforward chemically, but it’s boggled dietary scientists and, especially, journalists writing about it for decades. But the basics of what we u...
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We don’t talk a lot about dietary science here on SciShow because, frankly, it can seem like a hype factory designed more to generate clicks than to generate understanding. People want to hear what to eat and what not to eat in order to be healthy. The problem with that... is that it’s complicated. It’s too complicated to fit into a headline. Eating lots of fat will make you unhealthy, but so will eating lots of anything. Studies show that cutting fat intake is useless when attempting to help people lose weight if those calories are replaced by something else, which they tend to be. Now fat is relatively straightforward chemically, but it’s boggled dietary scientists and, especially, journalists writing about it for decades. But the basics of what we u...
