The new fat replacements. A strategy for reducing fat consumption.
Recent public health reports have implicated dietary fat as a major cause of chronic disease. Physicians are being called on to help their patients reduce fat consumption by guiding them toward a low-fat diet. However, high-fat foods are an important component of the American diet, and preferences for them are remarkably resistant to change. The standard strategy of suggesting to patients that they eat fewer high-fat foods and more grains, vegetables, and fruits has not, in my experience, been very effective. Fat-replacement products offer a useful new strategy for reducing fat consumption by the American public.
Drewnowski
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Program in Human Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
D004042:Dietary Fats, Unsaturated / Q000378:metabolism*; D019358:Fat Substitutes; D005227:Fatty Acids; D005524:Food Technology; D005526:Food, Formulated / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D011506:Proteins; D013395:Sucrose / Q000031:analogs & derivatives
D004042:Dietary Fats, Unsaturated; D019358:Fat Substitutes; D005227:Fatty Acids; D011506:Proteins; D013395:Sucrose; C013692:sucrose polyester