The reason that happens is because of the high sugar high "wrong" fats diet (hardened vegetable fats/trans fats). It has nothing to do with healthy fats, if it did, eskimos would be among the unhealthiest peope in the world. IN fact, they are among the healthiest, yet survive on meats, fish and animal fats and that is it.

It is certainly good to eat vegetables and some fruit, etc, but the right kinds of fats are not harmful, they are also healthful.

You have to ask why are people getting fatter and fatter nowadays? There is more awareness now than ever about so called fat being the enemy. They are all trying the no fat, low fat diets, yet obesity is the rise. We have it drilled into us by the so-called experts to make sure we eat low fat, or no fat.

Look what its' doing? I know very fat people who eat low fat, and think they are doing themselvs the world of good and are nto getting anywhere. This is usually because of the high sugar and the fact fat helps satiate the appetite and line the stomach (the right kind of fat). So instead of losing, they can end up gaining because many things that say low fat are instead higher in sugar. So usually they stay hungry and consume empty calories.

Asians eat a lot of fish too, which is omega 3 fats/oil. ONce they adopt out diets, then they start to consume donuts, mc donalds, etc and become fat also, but that has nothing to do with what I mentioned.

The right Fats are not to blame, unhealthy food, high sugar, bad fats are to blame as well as lack of exercise., genetic predispostion/weakness towards that, toxic exposure and who knows what else.

Whilst the Japanese suffer from less heart disease (artery blockages) than the West, they frequently die of strokes and cancer, in fact overall cancer rates in Japan are virtually identical to European rates. All food contains fat, and the restrictions necessary to achieve this target mean that macrobiotics eat brown rice and fish and very little else. Furthermore, there is no scientific justification for this restriction.