“Fat will make you fat” sounds so obvious it has to be true, right? We are told not to put mayo on sandwiches, eat full fat ice-cream, fully loaded nachos, greasy cheesy pizza, creamy mashed potatoes with gravy, and so on.

The problem with these is not the fat but the carbs; the white bread, the sugar, the corn meal nachos, the flour dough and the starchy potatoes respectively.

It is easy to believe that fat will make you fat because a lot of people who eat fatty food are indeed overweight. But even after cutting out the fat, they are still overweight and constantly hungry.

Fat on its own is not a problem for weight gain. Excess carbs however are stored as fat in your body. To avoid that you have to reduce your carb intake drastically.

Low-fat foods that imitate full fat versions are created by adding cheap carbohydrates in the form of flours, sugars, and starches. You will literally get fat by eating low-fat products.