Low-Fat Diets Makes People Fat Or Low Fat?

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Is fat the evil of our time, guilty for tempting us into an early,extra wide,grave with its mouthwatering tastiness?Or is low-fat foods the guilty one?The amount of debate in the nutrition department has never been greater about if high-fat diets really make you gain weight or if it's low-fat diets that do.Vegetables are good for you but not all diets that it's in are good for you because low fat diets which is what they're in has serious health consequences, mental health defects, and our intestines need dietary fat to properly absorb nutrients. Low fat diets have their benefits but not many,low fat diets restricts fat and often saturated fats.They are intended to reduce diseases such as heart disease and obesity.
But some of the things

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