The low fat diet is the worst dietary advice in the last 50 years
Next time an “expert” nutritionalist or dietitian tells you to do a low fat diet because fat has more calories per gram than carbs or protein, just punch them in the nose. The advice is completely discredited and has directly caused a huge and expensive health crisis.
This is from Dwight C. Lundell M.D at spacedoc.net-
Does the thought of a steak, bacon and eggs, or real milk make you cringe thinking you’re instantly clogging up your arteries? How many times have you seen physicians and nutritionists write “artery clogging saturated fats”? For the last 40 years the dietary instructions from governments and other authoritative bodies have told us to avoid all animal fats.
Americans took the message seriously and complied. Average fat consumption decreased, average blood cholesterol levels decreased but their rate of heart disease has continued to rise; the cost of its treatment has continued to rise. Now, in 2011 we have 24 MILLION people diagnosed with diabetes and another 65 million with pre-diabetes and an epidemic of obesity now afflicting over 65% of the population…
Besides Wall Street bankers, and endocrinologists, I can’t think of any professionals that get away with being complete idiots as much as nutritionalists or dietitians.
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Oh yeah, low carb is the be-all and end-all for diets…just look what it’s done for Jimmy Moore! (LOL)
For the TRUTH (about Taubes and Moore and all the LC snake-oil salesmen) check out: http://carbsanity.blogspot.com/
All comments are welcome, but let’s got get into messing with people (ad homs).
I doubt there is ever going to be a “be-all end-all” diet. This site knows that. It’s about What Do I Do, What Do I Eat, and Who Do I Believe?
Taubes is on the right track for the people that need his advice. Low carb has helped a lot of people. Is that so bad?