Gabriel Guzman
04-04-2006, 08:43 AM
At least according to the 'expert' that appeared this morning on the Today Show at NBC.
They were talking about 'good' and 'bad' fats and, as usual, saturated fats were vilified, and the culprits according to what they were showing: meat, 'full fat' dairy, butter. The good fats, on the other hand, unsatuated fats coming from fish, and guess... vegetable oils and here there wasn't any distinction. The bad fats, as we could predict: trans fats.
The funny thing, at least for me, is that while the expert, who is a professional that works at a weight loss clinic at Pittsburg University (I think... I still can't find the link to that part of the show, so if somebody does, maybe we can have it posted here!) talks about how bad trans fats are but shows as 'good' a lot of clear, plastic bottles containing vegetable oils... Hello? If your oil is in a clear bottle and expossed to light, you've got some transfats in there to make it last longer! Where's the expertise then? You gotta wonder.
To illustrate even more their idiocy, the teasers and some of the scenes they show while talking about fat is non other than french fries, gigantic burritos and pizza... So, as usual, it's hard to mention a 'high fat' food that doesn't cover with sugar or starch, but that is, hmmm... not relevant.
That a show host, sometimes a journalist, choose not to inform his/herself about a subject is not surprising or uncommon. But that a professional chooses to remain in his/her pool of ignorance it not only upsetting but rather scary as they are the ones that tell their patients what to do.
Enjoy your healthy fats!
They were talking about 'good' and 'bad' fats and, as usual, saturated fats were vilified, and the culprits according to what they were showing: meat, 'full fat' dairy, butter. The good fats, on the other hand, unsatuated fats coming from fish, and guess... vegetable oils and here there wasn't any distinction. The bad fats, as we could predict: trans fats.
The funny thing, at least for me, is that while the expert, who is a professional that works at a weight loss clinic at Pittsburg University (I think... I still can't find the link to that part of the show, so if somebody does, maybe we can have it posted here!) talks about how bad trans fats are but shows as 'good' a lot of clear, plastic bottles containing vegetable oils... Hello? If your oil is in a clear bottle and expossed to light, you've got some transfats in there to make it last longer! Where's the expertise then? You gotta wonder.
To illustrate even more their idiocy, the teasers and some of the scenes they show while talking about fat is non other than french fries, gigantic burritos and pizza... So, as usual, it's hard to mention a 'high fat' food that doesn't cover with sugar or starch, but that is, hmmm... not relevant.
That a show host, sometimes a journalist, choose not to inform his/herself about a subject is not surprising or uncommon. But that a professional chooses to remain in his/her pool of ignorance it not only upsetting but rather scary as they are the ones that tell their patients what to do.
Enjoy your healthy fats!