High-Fat And Low-Fat Diets

High-fat and Low-fat Diets

Today, more people suffer from weight and health problems than people from twenty years ago. You may ask why is that, and what is the difference between us today and the people of the last generation? Well, one main difference is the high-fat and low fat foods that we eat. High-fat and low-fat diets can be the cause of half our problems. People today; choose some sort of diet to help their weight problems. But many people do not know what the bad intake of some foods can do to you.

The first thing that most people are drawn to is the high-fat diet, because of the foods that seem so delicious. When people eat according to the high-fat diet, they might not realize the danger they are putting their bodies to. The high-fat diet gives a person a bigger risk for a heart attack or a stroke, because the fat deposits in the blood vessels, which disrupts the flow of the blood. High-fat diets are also very dangerous for the elderly, because they are high in saturated fat and trans fat, which can result in decreased thinking, learning, and memory abilities. It has been proven that people who are in their late years, and have a high intake in saturated and trans fat decline more rapidly on average, than those elderly who are on a low-fat diet.

Fat also provides more than twice as many calories, which makes a person gain excessive weight.

With all the negatives circling around the high-fat diet, it is very hard to find something positive, but according to the American Pediatric Association, it is the best for children who are two years and under to have an intake of the high-fat diet.

However, it is best to stay away from the high-fat diets, because only thirty percent of daily calories should be derived from fat. So, being careful and cautious about the intake of our daily calories is important because if avoided, the human body can be put to a risk with an illness.

The low-fat diet is the opposite of the high-fat diet, in which the high-fat diet has a lot of negatives, and only few positives, the low-fat diet has a lot of positives, and barely any negatives. A person that is on a low-fat diet: eats less food;