Fat Calories vs Carb Calories

Most people have an opinion on which calories are best to eat or avoid to lose weight.  You can see it in the supermarket, low -fat this fat-free that, sugar-free this. There are so many diet books and online plans you could follow, Dean Ornish offers a low-fat diet or Dr. Atkins offers a low-carb plan just to name a few.

Time magazine published the article Which Are Worse: Calories from Carbs or Fat?   I am so pleased to see that the real factual information on carbs vs fats is being talked about instead of the latest quick fix diet fad. You can listen to a podcast with Walter Willett,chair of the department of nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health. This podcast addresses the carb and fat content in our diets.  It the article published in Timemagazine Willett said

The answer is simple: it doesn’t matter. Scientists know that on a molecular level, different types of starch and different types of fat have varying effects when they hit the body. But in terms of weight loss, low-fat diets and low-carb diets overall are equally effective (and, most of the time, neither will help you keep the weight off long-term).

If you only look at a diet in terms of fat calories vs carb calories you will miss the mark, you need to eat a good quality varied diet.