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College students overwhelmingly perceive no-fat food preparations as healthier than those containing unsaturated or saturated fats, despite nutritional guidelines recommending unsaturated fats.
Stop avoiding fat. Choose foods with unsaturated fats (like olive oil, nuts, avocados) over no-fat options. The type of fat matters more for your health than simply removing fat from your diet.
ModerateRefutesMEDIUM confidence
Across all meal types, the no-fat preparation option was chosen 73% of the time, the unsaturated fat option was chosen 23% of the time, and the saturated fat option was chosen 4% of the time.
Why this rating
Observational study with a convenience sample; lacks randomization of fat options at most sites and does not measure actual intake.
Source
Faith in Fat: A Multisite Examination of University Students’ Perceptions of Fat in the Diet
Matthew J. Landry et al. · Nutrients · 2020
DOI 10.3390/nu12092560
cross_sectional · n=533Cited 5×
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