Oh yes, this irritates me too. I frequently see articles where they talk about fast food being full of "artery clogging saturated fats", and they had this one item that had 128 grams of fat (yes that is one hundred twenty eight) of which 10 were saturated. The article was talking about the "negative" points of this food item and it read like this "half a day's bad fat [sat. fat], and over 3,000 mg of sodium".
And I thought to myself.... over 90% of that fat is unsaturated. Why is the saturated fat being targeted?
And then, as I described in another post, there were these commercials for "Lay's" potato chips that were now fried in sunflower oil, and thus had 50% less saturated fat (1 gram, down from 2). And I thought to myself "even if saturated fat is the evil, wouldn't this small amount be statistically insignificant?".
Having originally lived in england until I was 18 I must say I don't know what that news item your friend was talking about is referring to. European food items are almost always higher in saturated fat, mostly due to the use of butter instead of margarines and canola oils. When I was in Malta back last January I realise that only places catering to americans and british sold margarine. |
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