Food for Thought: Have We Been Giving the Wrong Dietary Advice?

[Ted_Hutchinson]

Food for Thought: Have We Been Giving the Wrong Dietary Advice?

 

The Seven Countries study classified processed foods, primarily carbohydrates, as saturated fats.

The UK government and NICE do the same, listing biscuits, cakes, pastries and savoury snacks as saturated fats.

Processed foods should be the target of public health advice but not natural fats, in which the UK diet is deficient.

With reference to the macro and micro nutrient composition of meat, fish,eggs, and dairy foods the article demonstrates that dietary trials cannot change one type of fat for another in a controlled 

study.

The evidence suggests that processed food is strongly associated with  the increase in obesity, 

diabetes, CHD, and other modern illness in our society.

The macro and micro nutrients found in meat, fish, eggs and dairy products, are vital for human health and consumption of these nutritious foods should be encouraged. 

[Tiny Tom]

Good post Ted!

 

Nice twist and new perspective on the "supermarket diet". Bundling high carb + high fat as simply "high fat" is quite an accomplishment of the scientific community in the decades since Keys primary (?) study.