Topic: How much deep fat frying do we do?

[Sverige]

I do make use of my deep fryer quite often, more than I thought I would

How much do you weigh, if you don't mind me asking?

59kg, with a BMI of about 19.2.  I'm in the best shape of my adult life right now. Weight problems, in my opinion, are not about what you eat so much as how much you eat over a long term average. 

As livo has posted with his story about the full fat diet of his friend, eating fatty foods can help satisfy your hunger in a way that stops you over eating, or continuously snacking through the day as some people do when they're denying themselves the food they really crave and are always hungry as a result. I eat what I want to "scratch that itch" then after a big meal will tend to eat much less at other mealtimes because my appetite has been properly satisfied.

[livo]

Exactly right Sverige. Eating a high fat diet and avoiding carbs actually prevents hunger feelings or cravings for carbs.  Carbohydrates actually make you feel hungry even when you aren't. They are an addiction.

[George]

59kg, with a BMI of about 19.2. 

That's amazing. I never realised that fat could almost be good for you.

[Garp]

That's amazing. I never realised that fat could almost be good for you.

'Almost' being the crucial word, George. I would take advice from a professional medic before an internet forum poster.

A high fat and dairy diet may, indeed, be suitable if you need to lose weight drastically; but it has other consequences if you are not in that position.

[livo]

Exactly right Garp, and I, as an internet forum poster, am not suggesting anybody just go out and do this without proper medical guidance and due diligence, as is the case with the personal friend I mention.  I do mention that he is under a doctors care in relation to this eating program.

Upon his doctors advice,

I should think that this "diet" will not be sustained over any prolonged period either.  Once the weight is gone it would most likely be more appropriate to return to a more healthy balanced diet, albeit not necessarily without fats.

The point I try to make is that "fats" are not necessarily bad for you.  There is also a wide variability in how individuals react to the consumption of fats, or anything for that matter.  What is good for one may not be for another.