Despite all this, the sheer scale of this low fat craze, americans didn't eat like that much less fat. They just ate more. Daily calory consumption increased by something like 400 calories per person during this period. We ate less fat, butlike, we ate the same raw amount of fat. I mean, my theory on this is that it's just satietylike, you eat a box of fuck and snackell cookies, and you are not full,. You're just going to eat more, like, an hour later, as if you hadn't eaten anything. And there's also the whole sort ofik world of food science right around snack foods and sort of
They hit the market in 1992. Three years later, they were the best-selling cookie in America. This week, Mike and Aubrey dive into the low-fat craze of the 1990s and sample the snack that became the symbol of its rise and fall.
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