Why does the food industry put so NONFAT, NO FAT, etc varieties of products. Why is fat hated on so much? To me I have been switching to a higher fat and protein diet because to me it seems to keep me more satiated and overall have better cognitive function throughout the day. I literally could not find a plain whole milk yogurt at the store today.
People are clueless (or don’t care) when it comes to nutrition. They want the fads… no fat, low fat, lower sugar (even though still loaded with it), Keto, Low Carb, etc.
Those words sell products because of that ignorance/apathy about really eating nutritional food that is good for not just food swapped out with other ingredients to make them low fat, etc.
There’s many ppl who believe that if you consume fat, you’ll gain weight/become fat (of course this is true if you intake too many calories over maintenance). This created a need for the food industry to adjust some of their products to become low and nonfat to get consumers to still buy their product.
It’s not that the health food industry hates fat, but rather that they want to provide people with information about the types of fats in the foods they eat.
The food industry labels foods as “nonfat” or “no fat” to help consumers make informed choices about the foods they eat.
While fat is an important part of a healthy diet, some types of fat can be harmful to your health if eaten in large amounts. By providing information about the fat content of foods, the food industry is helping consumers make more informed choices about their diets.
Saturated fats are bad for you unsaturated aren’t so if you’re avoiding saturated fats this is a good thing. Some things can be high in saturated fat like cheese so no fat cheese would draw people who know that tends to be the case. Honestly though I don’t think yogurt is usually as bad as cheese.
Along with the other answers, note that full fat products don’t preserve as well in some cases - butter is a great fat, but how many labels do you need to print up talking about how much butter is in your factory food? It’s not. It’s not in there.
“The big fat surprise” goes into the history of how this happened. Essentially, there was a theory in the 1960s that fat was causing heart attacks.
One guy did two epidemiology studies; Both were poorly done according to his fellow scientists. But the guy who was in charge of creating the first US food recs (he created the food pyramid), believed him. And so, the fear of fat was born.