Fitness Hacking: 21 Power Tactics That Will Transform Your Workout Results (Stength Training 101 Book 6) by Marc McLean

Author:Marc McLean [McLean, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-14T17:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

The Fat Loss Con That’s Keeping You Fat – And Sick

Remember when every second advertisement on the TV used to be about “low fat” this and “low fat” that.

As if that was the answer to everyone’s slimming dreams. They did it with yoghurts, ice cream, microwave meals, and all sorts of foods to make you think they were healthier – and make you buy.

What they didn’t tell you was that while they were stripping away the fat from these foods, they were adding in sugar, salt and other unnecessary extras to replace the natural flavour that had been lost.

What they didn’t tell you was that not all fat is bad, and in fact the much-demonised saturated fat is actually very important for immune health, brain health, stronger bones, and proper nerve-signalling in the body.

I cover the topic of fats in more detail in my book Strength Training Nutrition 101, so there’s no point in me going on a long-winded fat rant right now.

The point I’m making is that we seem to be past the whole “low fat” craze now. You don’t see half as many of those adverts on the TV and I’m assuming it’s because people are simply more clued-up that most of these “low fat” processed foods are garbage.

The idea that these nutritionally-spent foods was the healthiest way to lose weight was a huge marketing con. It’s a con that’s largely gone away, at least where I live in the UK.

But there’s another con that’s still going strong. One that I doubt will ever go away in my lifetime. I’m talking about the whole “diet”, “zero calories”, and “no sugar” craze with drinks and food.

I’m not singling out any particular brand. You see it everywhere with fizzy juice, teas and coffees, shakes, and supposedly healthy foods.

We know sugar is bad for us and so the food and drinks manufacturers strip that out. Thumbs up. But then, just like with the processing of low fat foods, they throw in something that’s worse!

Two words: artificial sweeteners.

There’s a massive misconception across America, UK, Europe and beyond that these types of sweeteners are good for us. That they’ll help us lose weight. That they’re healthy and a much better option to sugar.

They’re absolutely not.

When I worked in an office years ago I can remember making tea and coffee in the morning, and my workmates would be passing me their mugs – along with their little sweetener dispensers.

After pouring the hot water and adding the milk to 6 or 7 mugs, I’d then hover over the top of most of them and click once or twice until these tiny white sweeteners hit the water.

To me, they looked like little drug tablets of some kind, which initially put me off. But I also couldn’t get my head around how something so tiny could have such a strong effect on the flavour of the tea/coffee. It would turn it super sweet, but in a weird-tasting way.

Back then, there was less research into the effects

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