HIDDEN FATS!!!!!!!!!
Many failed dieters believe they are following healthy low-fat nutrition, when in fact they are being fooled into fatness by false food labeling!!! Many apparently dry foods likes cookies, baked goods, crackers and chips, are higher in fat than ice cream. Even low-fat milk is really high fat!!!
How does low-fat milk get away with its name??? By jiggery-pokery lobbying power, the dairy industry got an exemption from the new labels. Nevertheless, an 8oz glass of low-fat milk (2%) serves you a hefty one-third of its calories from fat.
Food industry lawyers have filed exemption claims for all kinds of foods. And thousands of copywriters are busily writing new loopholes round the laws! So if you want to avoid hidden fats, DONT TRUST ANYTHING ON FOOD LABELS EXCEPT THE NUTRITION FACTS PANEL. TO BE LEGAL THAT HAS TO BE ACCURATE!
Especially beware the slew of "reduced fat" products. Under the label laws "reduced fat" means 25% less fat than original product. Oreo cookies for example are 44% fat calories. The new Reduced Fat Oreos are legal, but still load you with one-third of their calories as fat.
So it goes with everything from reduced fat bologna, which can still be 60% fat, to "light" and "lite" variants of foods, that have to be one-third less fat than the original....BUT CAN STILL BE 40-50% FAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I CANNOT STRESS IT ENOUGH TRUST ONLY THE NUTRITION FACTS PANEL ON FOOD LABELS!!!!