Dietary Fats: A New Look
- Low-Fat Diet's Benefits Rejected:
Study Finds No Drop in Risk for Disease
The eight-year study of nearly 50,000 middle-age and elderly women – by far the largest, most definitive test of cutting fat from the diet -- did not find any clear evidence that doing so reduced their risks, undermining more than a decade of advice from many doctors.
Note this direct quote from the study authors:
"Based on our findings, we cannot recommend that most women should follow a low-fat diet,“ said Jacques Rossouw of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, which funded the $415 million study.
- Dietary carbohydrate restriction induces a unique metabolic state positively affecting atherogenic dyslipidemia, fatty acid partitioning, and metabolic syndrome
- A New Paradigm for Saturated Fats by
Dr. Eric Westman Duke University Medical Center
- The Skinny on Fats from the Weston Price Foundation: Fats, especially saturated fats have many beneficial effects in the body, including begin essential for bone formation.
- What if it's All Been A Big Fat Lie? "If the members of the American medical establishment were to have a collective find-yourself-standing-naked-in-Times-Square-type nightmare, this might be it. They spend 30 years ridiculing Robert Atkins, author of the phenomenally-best-selling ''Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution'' and ''Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution,'' accusing the Manhattan doctor of quackery and fraud, only to discover that the unrepentant Atkins was right all along." by Gary Taubes
- When is a High Fat Diet Not a High Fat Diet? An editorial by Richard D. Feinman
- The Diet–Heart Hypothesis: A Critique. "A balanced appraisal of the diet–heart hypothesis must
recognize the unintended and unanticipated role that the LF-HCarb diet may well have played in the current epidemic of obesity, abnormal lipid patterns, type II diabetes, and the
metabolic syndrome." ~ Sylvan Lee Weinberg, MD, MACC