"The low-fat “diet–heart hypothesis” has been controversial for nearly 100 years. The low-fat–high-carbohydrate diet, promulgated vigorously by the National Cholesterol Education Program, National Institutes of Health, and American Heart Association since the Lipid Research Clinics-Primary Prevention Program in 1984, and earlier by the U.S. Department of Agriculture food pyramid, may well have played an unintended role in the current epidemics of obesity, lipid abnormalities, type II diabetes, and metabolic syndromes. This diet can no longer be defended by appeal to the authority of prestigious medical organizations or by rejecting clinical experience and a growing medical literature suggesting that the much-maligned low-carbohydrate–high-protein diet may have a salutary effect on the epidemics in question."
Sylvan Weinberg, former president of the American College of Cardiology.
Full paper here.
Eddie
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2 comments:
Eddie, here in the USA is seems that every other person I know of, is taking anti-depressants or anti-anxiety meds. I know there is a strong connection between the vegan diet and depression. I wonder if there is not also a strong link between all the processed carbs people eat everyday and their mental well being? Maybe low carb eating improves mental function and lifts the clouds of fogginess and depression.
Hi Marc
People like to think we are some sort of nutters going lowcarb, we are only amateurs and don't know what we are doing. Yet experts such as Sylvan Weinberg, former president of the American College of Cardiology and many others have been saying cut the carbs for years to stay healthy. What ever evidence you present to a naysayer they will never be convinced. Until they become obese, possibly a type two diabetic or have a heart attack.
How anyone these days can think a diet based on sugar, starch and chemicals is any good is beyond me.
Eddie
PS Thanks for the software tip.
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