This is a nicely written summary of many of the things I post about - http://civileats.com/2011/03/04/a-big-fat-debate/ - I couldn't find anything in the article that I disagree with. The topics are becomming so uncontroversial now, with everyone EXCEPT for the USDA, that an article like this might not result in anyone being threatened with loss of life or limb.
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Or, as Michael Pollan pithily puts it in his In Defense of Food, “The amount of saturated fat in the diet may have little if any bearing on the risk of heart disease, and the evidence that increasing polyunsaturated fats in the diet will reduce risk is slim to nil.”
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What does it say? That high fat diets are not shown to increase risks for heart disease, for obesity, for worsening metabolic syndrome, or for worsening short term markers for any of the above. It points out that the science supporting a low fat, high carb diet was never strong. It notes many of Taubes' points from Good Calories, Bad Calories
, for example, that eating a porterhouse steak, or even lard from a tub, might do more good for your heart disease risk than those silly rice cakes we once convinced ourselves were 'healthy.'
Take a look, share with your friends on Facebook, leave it around for your not-yet-convinced spouse to benefit from. The idea that dense, easily digestible carbs (and transfats and polyunsaturated fats; IOW, neolithic foods) are fattening and make you sick over time is becoming so mundane, it'll be conventionalwisdom again before long.
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Or, as Michael Pollan pithily puts it in his In Defense of Food, “The amount of saturated fat in the diet may have little if any bearing on the risk of heart disease, and the evidence that increasing polyunsaturated fats in the diet will reduce risk is slim to nil.”
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What does it say? That high fat diets are not shown to increase risks for heart disease, for obesity, for worsening metabolic syndrome, or for worsening short term markers for any of the above. It points out that the science supporting a low fat, high carb diet was never strong. It notes many of Taubes' points from Good Calories, Bad Calories
, for example, that eating a porterhouse steak, or even lard from a tub, might do more good for your heart disease risk than those silly rice cakes we once convinced ourselves were 'healthy.'Take a look, share with your friends on Facebook, leave it around for your not-yet-convinced spouse to benefit from. The idea that dense, easily digestible carbs (and transfats and polyunsaturated fats; IOW, neolithic foods) are fattening and make you sick over time is becoming so mundane, it'll be conventional
wisdom again before long.
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