hahahahaha!

Posted on February 11, 2015 by KG

‘While it is not quite an invitation to embark on a diet of pizza and ice cream sundaes, New research from the BMJ – formerly the British Medical Journal – claims that decade-old advice restricting dietary fat intake may be completely unfounded.
In fact, the study in the online journal Open Heart, goes so far as to say dietary fat guidelines introduced in 1977 and 1983 “should not have been introduced”.
…These early recommendations in the UK and US advised reducing overall dietary fat consumption to 30 per cent of total energy intake, and saturated fats to 10 per cent.
New Zealand’s recommendations are similar. The Ministry of Health recommends between 30 and 33 per cent of our daily intake should come from fat, of which no more than 12 per cent should be saturated fat.
But the Open Heart authors have poked holes in the recommendations, citing problems with limited trials in only a very small group of 740 men – on which the recommendations were based.
“It seems incomprehensible that dietary advice was introduced for 220 million Americans and 56 million UK citizens, given the contrary results from a small number of unhealthy men,” commented the authors.
…NZ MOH NOT BUDGING ON FATS’
Update:
James Delingpole on the subject

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9 Responses to hahahahaha!

  1. Kirly says:
    February 11, 2015 at 14:42

    and that’s why I just do what I believe to be right and what my doctor convinces me is necessary rather than take a one size fits all governmental recommendation.

    • KG says:
      February 11, 2015 at 15:00

      Me too, Kirly. Fads dressed up in dodgy “research” are never a substitute for commonsense and an experienced GP. :grin:

  2. mawm says:
    February 11, 2015 at 17:38

    Full cream milk, eggs fried in butter, lots of meat, salads and veggies, red wine and 95% cacao chocolate (an acquired taste but helped with a glass or so of red wine). We eat well and are most certainly not overweight. :mrgreen: We just never liked sugar much; not that there is much wrong with a small amount of sugar, it’s just that it is added to just about everything that is canned/commercial and thus forms a significant part of the Western diet. Excess sugar in the diet gets converted to fat that is then stored by the body. Sugars also make your insulin levels rise and once the sugar has been utilised the low sugar and high insulin makes you want to eat again. Dietary fats makes one feel satiated sooner and for longer periods, thus less need to eat as much or often. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_mail.gif

  3. KG says:
    February 11, 2015 at 18:39

    Sugar just doesn’t help me put on weight. I can eat junk until the cows come home and my weight refuses to budge. :sad: