It makes the percentage of fat calories look low, but you're still get- ting a lot of worthless calories. It's a mistake to believe that you can eat all the fat-free food you want. You still need to avoid eating more calories than your body can use. You get fewer calories in a tablespoon of diet margarine, but they're still nearly 100 percent fat calories. And often the serving size has been reduced, to make it look like you're not getting very many calories.
Fruit juice is simply a form of sugar.
These cookies have nearly the same number of calories as sugar-sweetened cookies. Unfortunately, much of that moist texture comes from fat. And muffins are large. One ounce of pretzels has only one tenth of the fat in an ounce of potato chips. One cup of buttermilk has slightly less fat than a cup of 1 percent milk.