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[quote=Anonymous]I think this is a reasonable theory not a crazy one.

If you've ever watched a person in your life go from a healthy weight to a little overweight to obese then it's unlikely you watched them going from low fat foods to a much higher fat diet. This is always something that interests me because I watched both my parents become obese in middle age and while there was a decent amount of fat in their diets this had always been true -- they were raised in meat and potatoes and whole milk homes and ate that way pretty much their entire lives. The key difference was that starting in their 30s they started eating a TON of highly processed foods that were high in sugar and preservatives. Actually not a ton of sugar but LOTS of high fructose corn syrup. And I think this is what led to them becoming obese as opposed to just the somewhat typical middle aged weight gain.

I don't even think you need to cut sugar from your diet but just avoiding foods with tons of added sugars can make a huge difference. The problem is that it's really hard to avoid added sugars in American foods -- they are in everything from bread to peanut butter to jarred sauces to granola bars to canned fruit to... well you name it. If you switch to brands that do not add sugar to everything you can eat pretty much the same as you did before and lose weight. And you can still eat dessert and sweets but the point is that you are consuming sugar consciously and in moderation instead of having it in every single thing you eat.[/quote]

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