Tag: Fats

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Eat fat to get thin: Official diet advice is ‘disastrous’ for obesity fight, new report warns
Thirty years of official health advice urging people to adopt low-fat diets and to lower their cholesterol is having “disastrous health consequences,” a leading obesity charity warned yesterday. Read the full article at: www.telegraph.co.uk According to the report, the low-fat and low-cholesterol message, which has been official policy in the UK since 1983, was based […]
Overweight And Pregnant: DietSensor Helps You To Manage Weight Gain During Pregnancy
New research suggests gorging on junk food in pregnancy increases the risk a woman’s children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will suffer metabolic problems. The sad part is that the findings show the risks remains even if their offspring consume healthy diets. Read the full article at: www.dailymail.co.uk If you started off your pregnancy carrying too much […]
New dietary guidelines limit sugar, rethink cholesterol
The 2015 guidelines recommend a “healthy eating pattern” with limited sugar and saturated fat, less salt and more vegetables and whole grains. The guidelines are revised every five years, and the draft version of this year’s guide came in months ago at more than 500 pages. The guidance affects everything from what’s served in school […]
Nutrition Coalition suggests dietary guidelines made Americans fat
Members of the Nutrition Coalition said Americans followed the government dietary guidelines at the same time obesity burgeoned. One graph supplied by the Nutrition Coalition’s members showed when the government’s dietary recommendations became official in the late 1970s, the obesity epidemic of the American people began and accelerated. Other data showed the public has followed […]
This ‘Healthy’ Food Swap You’ve Been Making May Actually Be Bad For You
Actually, when consumed in moderation, butter is actually pretty good for you. Research found butter fights cancer, reduces diabetes symptoms, is packed with vitamins that boost your immune system and keeps bones strong and teeth healthy. So, before you dump all your vegetable oil down the drain, let’s take a look at the research. Read […]
Why reduced-fat foods are making you fat
A whopping 65 percent of people want to reduce the amount of fat in their diets, according to a recent Nielson survey, despite overwhelming research that shows low-fat diets may actually promote weight gain.  So how has this monster of myth lived for so long? Because people still think fat makes them fat, says Donald […]