I’ve blogged a lot about how bad ‘low fat’ foods are (see my past blogs), so it was good to see Channel 4 Dispatches program – The Truth about Low Fat Food – last week.
Besides highlighting the amount of added sugar in low fat foods, the one extra interesting point is that people eat more of something if they think its low fat.
Beware of all that extra sugar that’s added & read the ingredients label!
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