fat-free

No, there are no silver bullets, no fat-free fat, no sugar-free sugar, etc.

I have a roommate who drinks fat-free milk and eats lots of salad and pasta, who avoids meat like the plague. He's been struggling with his weight for as long as I've known him.

Although I'd love to have a few bottles of your fat-free water, it's a bogus analogy. It's more like claiming "100% trans fat free" on a package of cookies.

There's sugar or corn syrup in almost ALL low-fat/fat-free foods. So not only were you not getting the fat that would have worked to satiate your appetite, you were getting sugar on top of the carbs.

I love binging on homemade fat-free pizza and cookies after my workout and being able to feel my abs on top of my bloated, satisfied stomach. Then I can go write software for 9 hours and not eat.

To make fat-free food taste better, they added sugar and insulin-system-destroying carbs. So now the government is going to make more decisions for us in some new scheme to improve all our lives.

It's also very, very easy, and almost completely fat-free as a mathematical expression of what you might want to do with data. I learned almost everything I needed to know about it within an afternoon ~10 years ago, and the dividends paid since on that investment have been extraordinary.

> For example, any food marketed to children must “contain at least 50% by weight one or more of the following: fruit; vegetable; whole grain; fat-free or low-fat milk or yogurt; fish; extra lean meat or poultry; eggs; nuts and seeds; or beans.” UK advice is to give children full fat milk until they are 2, and not skimmed until they are 5, and only then if they have a good diet.