WHAT? Low fat diets could increase heart disease?
Posted On November 24, 2010
Could it be true? Has all our coaching to eat low fat foods (in order to save our hearts) actually put us at a greater risk?! Chair of the Harvard School of Public Health’s nutrition department Dr. Walter Willett is emphatic:
“If anything, the literature shows a slight advantage of the high fat diet,” he said.“The focus on fat in dietary guidelines has been a massive distraction…We should remove total fat from nutrition facts panels on the back of packs.”
He added that while the pervasive dietary guidance given to consumers has been to eat fats sparingly, to load up on starch and eat non-fat products, “the food industry quickly realized sugar was cheaper than fat and laughed all the way to the bank.”
When America was healthy and thinner than we are now (lets say, 1958 when our obesity rate hovered at 12%), the percent of fat in our diets was closer to 37%. Certainly not the 30% advised by a raft of health experts.
Healthy cultures eat healthy fats. When we were healthy, we ate healthy fats as well. Now we need to let go of “theory” and return to the behavioral habits that worked for us in the past.
Healthy cultures eat healthy fats. When we were healthy, we ate healthy fats as well. Now we need to let go of “theory” and return to the behavioral habits that worked for us in the past.
Here’s the article. Low fat diets could increase heart disease risk, say nutrition experts
Please forward this to your friends. 
For more information: Click here to visit Will Clower’s website.
(Visited 2 times, 1 visits today)
About The Author
