Just finished what will likely be my last air crew medical in the military - getting old - they are going to throw me out in about 10 months.

Doctor and I chatted about sugars and fats as he was surprised my cholesterals were so "good".

I told him I ate meat with fat on it.

He told me that people in North America have been sold a bill of goods and that fat is not a problem. In fact he advised me to avoid artificially created, low fat foods as they are not truly good for you. Check the labels - no trans fats, low fat, zero fat, lean this/that and more - all of it was a bill of goods as far as he was concerned. By not eating or fastidiously avoiding fat, people were also depriving their bodies of the good cholesterals and fats.

He also told me that the problem with North America and the problem with obesity was sugar. Back in the "old days" there were few fat people. He believed it was because there was more activity - but also there was no food with "low fat, no fat, no trans fats. no lean" and so on. People ate fat with their food. There was also far less sugar out there.

Sugar in everything - and orange juice was the one I brought up - I tend to drink a lot of it.

He said it was simply cola with no fizz. So I checked the labels - darned if he was not right!

If more people ate fat and moved more and avoided sugar he figured you could cut obesity in half - or more - in one generation.

Out of this one

Best to all

bc