by Laura Dolson
About.com [1]
A panel of nutrition experts from the Harvard School of Public Health recently urged dieticians and professionals from the food industry to “end the low-fat myth” [2]. Martha Rose Shulman, food writer and cookbook author, reported that one panelist even challenged the audience to take a pledge to drop the term “low-fat” [3] from their vocabulary, and that she herself took the pledge. Shulman also reports on a talk by Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, who said
“No randomized trial looking at weight change has shown that people did better on a low-fat diet,” Mozaffarian told us, and there have been dozens of them. “For many people, low-fat diets are even worse than moderate or high-fat diets because they’re often high in carbohydrates from rapidly digested foods such as white flour, white rice, potatoes, refined snacks and sugary drinks.”
Exactly. Low-fat pretty much equals high-carb.
Of course, they go on to say that saturated fat is bad…but one battle at a time! For the time being, I’ll take any steps in the right direction!
Read the full article here: http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/b/2011/05/12/harvard-it-is-time-to-end-the-low-fat-myth.htm [1]
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