Why Low-Fat Foods Must Now Be Avoided

Professionals have long suggested 'low-fat' diets to withstand the obesity epidemic. A few have now done a U-turn, telling us to eat more fat. How come?

For over a divide century, obesity and cardiovascular disease rates have been increasing. During that time people moved away from eating natural unhealthy fats to eating artificial unsaturated fat, all because of advice made by health experts.

Now the experts confess that in the past they were ignorant of the several sorts of dietary fats. A lot of fats are beneficial and some are detrimental to health. Up to now experts have said that unsaturated fats should be consumed in preference to saturated fats.

"Eat margarine rather than butter" they said, and "cook with veg oils rather than lard". Sadly, those advice did not prevent obesity and center disease rate growing.

When the public accepts the guidance of health experts, it is almost impossible to say that professionals were actually wrong.

Nevertheless , a report published by the British National Obesity Discussion board and Public Health Cooperation on Obesity entitled 'Eat Fat, Cut The Cabohydrate supply and steer clear of Snacking To Change Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes' is different.

Centered on results of 43 studies, experts now say that the policy of encouraging low-fat diets has been bad for community health.

Now they want a radical change in official dietary guidelines because low-fat diets are centered on flawed science that has resulted in carb overconsumption.

The report says that good fats do not make people body fat. Rather,

it is munching between meals that boosts weight gain. The less fat, low-cholesterol messages have acquired serious health consequences, with obesity rates now at their highest ever, with no sign of decreasing.

Here is a synopsis of the report's results:

You don't get body fat by consuming healthy body fat

High-fat, low 'net' carbs diets are superior to low-fat, high net carbohydrate diets for weight loss

Stop useful. Nutrients are crucial for health, which is injured when you don't eat properly. Calories have different type of metabolic effects, depending on their source

Increasing exercise does not prevent weight problems. Obesity is a metabolic dysfunction leading to unnatural energy divisions

Saturated fat such as natural excess fat from grass-fed cows do not cause heart disease

Ancel Keys' original pitch in 1953 linking unhealthy fat to cardiovascular disease has suppressed the truth for too long. The alternative of unhealthy fats with vegetable oils has actually increased mortality, not reduced it.

Although vegetable skin oils have been shown to reduce total cholesterol levels with a sixth over a 12 month period, they have never demonstrated an ability to improve health and durability. Actually lowered cholesterol levels have been shown to increase mortality.

The latest advice are to avoid foods labeled 'low-fat' or 'low-cholesterol'.

No evidence exists demonstrating that avoiding unhealthy body fat or cholesterol in the diet reduces the chances of dying from heart problems.

The report blames the large food industry for influencing public health physiques to issue misleading eating guidelines.

All for commercial gain...