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Review of recent low-fat research that makes sense (well, uhm, to me... ;)
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:37:48 +0100, Mirek Fidler wrote in
on sci.med.nutrition : So for these people, a higher fat diet would have been healthier. Sure. Nice, is not it? What "higher fat diet" are they talking about, though? I gather that the study examined two groups of women: one followed a so called "low fat" diet with some 24-29 percent fat, while the control group sticked to a "normal" diet with some 35-38 percent fat. Thus, the "high fat" diet wasn't really "high" in fat, and the "low fat" diet wasn't really low in fat. Both diets are possibly in an acceptable range, so to speak, to which the human body can easily adapt. No wonder there weren't huge differences as to the health. Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 already state: "Keep total fat intake between 20 to 35 percent of calories". Maybe they should rewrite that to "20 to 38 percent"? Possibly. Not much of a change, though. The study does NOT tell anything about the consequences of REALLY LOW (say Ornish?) or REALLY HIGH (say Atkins?) diets, nor on the consequences of different kinds of fats. The important thing the new study DOES actually suggest, as I understand it, is that the old myth "the lesser fat, the better" is not true any longer. Correct me if I am wrong. X'Posted to: sci.med.nutrition,alt.support.diet.low-fat |
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