Joe Bittner – NY Times – What Causes Weight Gain?

• If I ask you what constitutes “bad” eating, the kind that leads to obesity and a variety of connected diseases, you’re likely to answer, “Salt, fat and sugar.” This trilogy of evil has been drilled into us for decades, yet that’s not an adequate answer.
• Minimally processed plants should dominate our diets.
• Real food solves the salt/fat/sugar problem.
• Processed foods — supply more than 80 percent of the sodium in typical American diets
• Eat real food and your fat intake will probably be fine.
• Sugar is not the enemy, or not the only enemy. The enemy is hyperprocessed food, including sugar.
• A large part of our dietary problems might stem from something as simple as the skyrocketing and almost unavoidable consumption of caloric sweeteners and/or hyperprocessed carbs, which are in 80 percent of our food products.
• Meanwhile, if we had to pick one target in the interim, caloric sweeteners are unquestionably it; they’re well correlated with weight gain (and their reduction equally well correlated with weight loss), Type 2 diabetes and many other problems.
• Let’s also get the simple message straight: It’s “Eat Real Food.”

See entire article here: What Causes Weight Gain?

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