How do lowfat-oriented regulations cause a problem for lowcarbers?
The biggest problem is that they lead us to expect greater overall accuracy than we get. This impression of accuracy can be dangerous for anyone trying to control nutrients other than fats or salt. The idea behind the regulations is that by standardizing formats and serving sizes, people could compare products and buy the most-healthful choices. By selecting fat and salt as dangerous, the other nutrients got much shorter shrift. Fat content is reported more accurately, carbohydrate content less accurately than other nutrients (as explained in the main FAQ). Serving sizes are often not useful to us.
