Quoted from Progressive Health Choices . This program was pioneered by the late Dr. Feingold, who discovered that many seriously behavior disabled children could be helped by removing these substances and offending food allergens from their diets and avoiding environmental allergens. Recently the subject of fats in the diet have come up. These people have worked hard to create a regimen that incorporates all the latest health advice things learned from TV commercials, magazine ads, and in many cases from the family doctor. Fat has been virtually banished, perhaps sugar is gone as well.
Eggs are a memory, and butter has given way to round tubs of a yellow substance.
The family has become accustomed to milk devoid of fat, which shares refrigerator space with new versions of condiments, dressings and desserts that can be consumed with a clear conscience. They eat salads, broil fish in place of T-bones, exercise, but still don't feel very well. Not only is it necessary for the absorption of certain vitamins, but when people don't eat enough fat, they can suffer from dry skin, brittle hair and nails, constipation and other gastrointestinal problems, anemia, impaired wound healing, soreness of joints, headaches and memory loss. Even saturated fat may be something the body requires, since the body will create it from simple carbohydrates if it does not get enough in foods. Research conducted at Rockefeller University in 1995 showed that low-fat diets raised the level of saturated fat in the blood because metabolism was stimulated to change carbohydrate into saturated fat.