Fats don’t make people fat

Do fats really make people fat?

Donal O’Neill is an independent documentary filmmaker, who has covered variety of topics related to health and fitness in his documentaries in the last 6 years.

Donal came from a sports family background with no ‘bad’ lifestyle habits, and he was stunned seeing his loved ones becoming victims of modern diseases. This made him probe deeper in to the limitations of medical science.

Donal’s debut feature length documentary ‘Cereal Killers’ focuses on unhealthy breakfast cereals, which has replaced traditional foods around the globe.

Cornflakes were created by mistake, and the reasons to sell them have detrimental repercussions.

He adds, ‘I look at food like ghee in India and sacred foods from other cultures, which have been unfortunately displaced by modern marketing techniques and artificial options like vegetable oil or sunflower oil. We are losing the touch of wisdom from our ancestors, who didn’t need doctors because they never got sick and lived long healthy lives.’

Cereals contain high amount of sugar, which is much more than the recommended intake of 5 teaspoons by World Health Organization.

Nowadays, people prefer cereals in the morning, thinking it’s healthy and takes less time to prepare. But it’s not enough for the body, so they are hungry again in few hours and eat sugary foods again. A good-fat based meal would have kept them ‘full’ for a longer time thus preventing the problem of overeating.

Another myth is to have large quantities of protein to maintain a healthy diet, but people eating too much of proteins don’t realise that it can cause some serious damage to the body.

Foe example, diseases like cancer, osteoporosis and obesity are partly caused by eating large quantities of animal protein in certain cases.

However, egg is a great source of proteins and amino acids.