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the French food agency'sadvice is now to have a diet with up to 40%fat
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If there are any french-reading persons here, they could be interested in this: http://www.lemonde.fr/aujourd-hui/ar...0068_3238.html Basically, it says that the official "french sanitary safety and food agency"(AFSSA) has upped its recommendation in order to say that up to 40% fat in a diet is recommended in a diet. In 2001, this was 35%. In 2010, 35% is a minimum. As they stress out that there is no benefit in reducing to less than 35% fat, since such a behavior generally lead to eat more carbs, wich is not all good. (let me add: /duh!) Saturated fat was to be limietd to 8% in 2001; this figure has gone up to 12% in 2010. They ask us to have more vegetable oil like canola and walnut, more fresh fish with at least 1 fat fish a week. I will try and translate the sentence that is most important, I think: "If back then, we used to say that all saturated fat acids were bad, some of them named "small chain" or "medium chain" (such as the ones to be found in butter and cheese) can have positive effects upon health" (Jean-Luc Volatier, from Afssa)" It's just funny to see them invent tapid water, isn't it? One other way to looke at it, more reassuring, is that some simple truth are being unfolded and the new figures are going to go in the right directions, but slowly... ) Slowly enough not to make people think they had been mislead during decades Huey |
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the French food agency'sadvice is now to have a diet with upto 40% fat
Hueyduck wrote:
Hi, If there are any french-reading persons here, they could be interested in this: http://www.lemonde.fr/aujourd-hui/ar...0068_3238.html Basically, it says that the official "french sanitary safety and food agency"(AFSSA) has upped its recommendation in order to say that up to 40% fat in a diet is recommended in a diet. In 2001, this was 35%. In 2010, 35% is a minimum. As they stress out that there is no benefit in reducing to less than 35% fat, since such a behavior generally lead to eat more carbs, wich is not all good. (let me add: /duh!) Saturated fat was to be limietd to 8% in 2001; this figure has gone up to 12% in 2010. They ask us to have more vegetable oil like canola and walnut, more fresh fish with at least 1 fat fish a week. I will try and translate the sentence that is most important, I think: "If back then, we used to say that all saturated fat acids were bad, some of them named "small chain" or "medium chain" (such as the ones to be found in butter and cheese) can have positive effects upon health" (Jean-Luc Volatier, from Afssa)" It's just funny to see them invent tapid water, isn't it? One other way to looke at it, more reassuring, is that some simple truth are being unfolded and the new figures are going to go in the right directions, but slowly... ) Slowly enough not to make people think they had been mislead during decades Huey Thanks for the article. I am sure that the cholesterol skeptics will welcome this. It is foolish that the fat phobia has held on so strongly on so little actual evidence. But then, Doctors are Physicians, not Scientists. |
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the French food agency'sadvice is now to have a diet with up to 40% fat
I always tell people, wait 10 or 20 years and we'll see who was right about
what we should be eating. Hueyduck wrote: | Hi, | | If there are any french-reading persons here, they could be interested | in this: | http://www.lemonde.fr/aujourd-hui/ar...0068_3238.html | | Basically, it says that the official "french sanitary safety and food | agency"(AFSSA) | has upped its recommendation in order to say that up to 40% fat in a | diet is recommended in a diet. | In 2001, this was 35%. | In 2010, 35% is a minimum. As they stress out that there is no benefit | in reducing to less than 35% fat, since such a behavior generally lead | to eat more carbs, wich is not all good. (let me add: /duh!) | Saturated fat was to be limietd to 8% in 2001; this figure has gone up | to 12% in 2010. | They ask us to have more vegetable oil like canola and walnut, more | fresh fish with at least 1 fat fish a week. | | I will try and translate the sentence that is most important, I think: | | "If back then, we used to say that all saturated fat acids were bad, | some of them named "small chain" or "medium chain" (such as the ones | to | be found in butter and cheese) can have positive effects upon health" | (Jean-Luc Volatier, from Afssa)" | | | It's just funny to see them invent tapid water, isn't it? | | One other way to looke at it, more reassuring, is that some simple | truth are being unfolded and the new figures are going to go in the | right directions, but slowly... ) Slowly enough not to make people | think they had been mislead during decades | | | Huey |
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the French food agency'sadvice is now to have a diet with up to 40% fat
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Hueyduck wrote: Hi, If there are any french-reading persons here, they could be interested in this: http://www.lemonde.fr/aujourd-hui/ar...orps-gras-n-et aient-pas-mauvais_1320068_3238.html Basically, it says that the official "french sanitary safety and food agency"(AFSSA) has upped its recommendation in order to say that up to 40% fat in a diet is recommended in a diet. In 2001, this was 35%. In 2010, 35% is a minimum. As they stress out that there is no benefit in reducing to less than 35% fat, since such a behavior generally lead to eat more carbs, wich is not all good. (let me add: /duh!) Saturated fat was to be limietd to 8% in 2001; this figure has gone up to 12% in 2010. They ask us to have more vegetable oil like canola and walnut, more fresh fish with at least 1 fat fish a week. I will try and translate the sentence that is most important, I think: "If back then, we used to say that all saturated fat acids were bad, some of them named "small chain" or "medium chain" (such as the ones to be found in butter and cheese) can have positive effects upon health" (Jean-Luc Volatier, from Afssa)" It's just funny to see them invent tapid water, isn't it? One other way to looke at it, more reassuring, is that some simple truth are being unfolded and the new figures are going to go in the right directions, but slowly... ) Slowly enough not to make people think they had been mislead during decades Huey Ah, my mother was always talking about the changing medical advice. -- A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard. |
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