Great article from CBS News about nutritionists who believe that fat isn’t so bad for you after all. Click here to read it (excerpt follows….)
In a kitchen in Toronto, the fat is on the fire … sizzling, baking, bubbling …
“I’m happy to be the ‘fat lady,'” That’s what I call myself, and it always gets a laugh,” said chef Jennifer McLagen. “But I wanna point out that by eating fat you’re not going to get fat. I’m an example of that!”
McLagan says people eat less of fatty foods because they’re more filling, and she calls fat the “misunderstood” ingredient.
“We all think of phrases like a ‘tub of lard,'” said Braver, “that sounds sort of big and bulky and disgusting.”
“Lard [is] really a four-letter word,” McLagen laughed. “You know, it doesn’t sound that good. But it’s a shame because it’s a fabulous fat.”
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