{"id":2250,"date":"2010-11-24T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/what-low-fat-diets-could-increase-heart-disease.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T09:19:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:19:28","slug":"what-low-fat-diets-could-increase-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2250","title":{"rendered":"WHAT? Low fat diets could increase heart disease?"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Could it be true? <\/span>

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<\/span>Has all our coaching to eat low fat foods (in order to save our hearts) actually put us at a greater risk?! Chair of the Harvard School of Public Health\u2019s nutrition department Dr. Walter Willett is emphatic: <\/span>

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<\/span>\u201cIf anything, the literature shows a slight advantage of the high fat diet,\u201d <\/span><\/i>he said.\u201cThe focus on fat in dietary guidelines has been a massive distraction\u2026We should remove total fat from nutrition facts panels on the back of packs.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n
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He added that while the pervasive dietary guidance given to consumers has been to eat fats sparingly, to load up on starch and eat non-fat products, \u201cthe food industry quickly realized sugar was cheaper than fat and laughed all the way to the bank.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
When America was healthy and thinner than we are now (lets say, 1958 when our obesity rate hovered at 12%), the percent of fat in our diets was closer to 37%. Certainly not the 30% advised by a raft of health experts. <\/span>

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Healthy cultures eat healthy fats. When we were healthy, we ate healthy fats as well. Now we need to let go of “theory” and return to the behavioral habits that worked for us in the past. <\/span><\/div>\n

Here’s the article. Low fat diets could increase heart disease risk, say nutrition experts<\/a><\/span>

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Please forward this to your friends.<\/span> \"Bookmark<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>For more information: Click here to visit Will Clower’s website. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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