Dietary fat intake advice has been wrong for 30 years

No Evidence to support dietary UK and USA fat recommendations

The British Medical Journal states that the advice the profession has been giving people on diet for the past 40 years  – was untested, and was frankly WRONG.

A paper in the BMJ Open journal full paper reviews all the worthwhile trials where a low fat and saturated fat diet was compared with controls.  With over 1200 people in each group followed for over 5 years, the mortality from heart disease was 30.2%  in the treated and 29.8%, even though those

on the low fat diet had 6% lower blood cholesterol levels.

By reducing the fat in the diet, doctors have encouraged the increased intake of sugars – which many believe has led to the huge increase of obesity and diabetes in our world today.

In 1977 the USA and 1983 the UK health authorities advised people to eat less than 30% of their energy as fat and less than 10% saturated fats.  They had no research showing any benefit from the low fat diet, the ‘Ancel Keyes 7 countries study’ showed those countries with the highest fat intake had, the greatest incidence of heart disease (BUT it was in fact a 22 country study, and Keyes only published data from the 7 countries which fitted his theory).

So for almost 40 years people have been told to eat the wrong diet, and the incidence of obesity, diabetes, heart failure, cancer, neurological diseases… have all risen – and we wonder why – or do we?  More sugars, fructose, packaged food, preservatives and sprays – are all the result of reducing the ‘natural’ fats from our diets.   Fats our grandparents ate with impunity and which we were designed to eat.