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Here is a recent article from the Harvard School of Public Health with their current views on fat in the diet:
Harvard School of Public Health » The Nutrition Source » Fats and Cholesterol: Out with the Bad, In with the Good
They are not advocating that people pig-out on fatty meat and dairy food, but they have changed their views about reducing the amount of fat we should be eating, and they re-emphasize that fats should be the 'healthy' fats (mono and poly unsaturated).
What interests me is that since we were so much thinner and diabetes was hardly an epidemic in the 60's, why not simply go back to the way we were eating at that time?
They have also come to the conclusion that dietary fat does not necessarily make one fat. As they tactfully put it:
Harvard School of Public Health » The Nutrition Source » Fats and Cholesterol: Out with the Bad, In with the Good
They are not advocating that people pig-out on fatty meat and dairy food, but they have changed their views about reducing the amount of fat we should be eating, and they re-emphasize that fats should be the 'healthy' fats (mono and poly unsaturated).
Well it’s time to end the low-fat myth. The low-fat approach to eating may have made a difference for the occasional individual, but as a nation it hasn’t helped us control weight or become healthier. In the 1960s, fats and oils supplied Americans with about 45 percent of calories; (1) about 13 percent of adults were obese and under 1 percent had type 2 diabetes, a serious weight-related condition. (2,3) Today, Americans take in less fat, getting about 33 percent of calories from fats and oils; (4) yet 34 percent of adults are obese and 11 percent have diabetes, most with type 2 diabetes. (5,6)
What interests me is that since we were so much thinner and diabetes was hardly an epidemic in the 60's, why not simply go back to the way we were eating at that time?
They have also come to the conclusion that dietary fat does not necessarily make one fat. As they tactfully put it:
Misguided? Looks like another entry in my "bad dietary advice that led me astray" list.But the notion that food fat equals body fat isn’t completely true, and the advice has been misguided.
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