The Nutrient-Weight Conflabulation

Nutrient-weight  ratios  hide  how  nutrient-deficient  processed  food is and make animal-source food not look so fatty. Could this be why the food industry and the USDA chose this method? Could it be a conspiracy to have consumers not realize what they are really eating?

For example, a Burger King bacon double cheeseburger is clearly not a low-fat food. If we calculate its percentage of fat by weight andinclude the ketchup and the bun, we can accurately state that it is only 18 percent fat (over 80 percent fat-free). However, as a per­ centage of calories it is    54 percent fat, and the hamburger patty alone is     68 percent fat. McDonald's McLean burger was advertised a few years back as 91 percent fat-free using the same numbers trick, when in fact 49 percent of its calories came from fat. Likewise, so-called low-fat 2 percent milk is not really 2 percent fat. Thirty-five percent of its calories come from fat. They can call it 98 percent fat-free (by weight) only because of its water content. Low-fat milk is not a low-fat product at all, and neither are low-fat cheeses and other low-fat animal foods when you recalculate their fat on a per calorie percentage basis. This is just a sad trick played on Americans.
Incidentally, 49 percent of the calories in whole milk come from fat.