why-does-low-fat-food-get-bad rap - best diet facts: does fat make me fat?  Walk into just about any party and mention the words "low fat food" and you will see plenty of people stop, grimace, and begin to share an experience they had with a low fat diet food that was absolutely terrible. Unfortunately, that is the perception of far too many people about low fat diet food. But how did it get that way? Here are a few of the reasons low fat food has a less than favorable reputation in some circles. First, there is plenty of really awful low fat diet food on the market today. Never mind that there is a world of microwave dinners out there that are saturated with salts, fats and other things that are equally as terrible. Because there are low fat prepared dishes that lack flavor and often have weak or undesirable textures, people feel free to think that any low fat diet food is going to be in the same category.