Is the low-fat diet recommended by the Federal Dietary Guideline just a lot of bunk? A lot of people think so and just ignore the guidelines. But these guidelines apply to all Federal health programs and most State and private institutions follow them. The obese follow the recommended diet, only to gain more weight and eventually become diabetic. Obesity and diabetes has become a national crisis, affecting you even if you are perfectly healthy.
Here is a TED Talk which raises the possibility that the mainstream recommended diet has been wrong. Low-fat diets have long been challenged for a long time, but this movement has been growing in recent years. All previous TED Talks about diet, have extolled the virtues of low-fat. This is the first TED Talk which even hints that the low-fat approach was wrong.
If you go the TED talk webpage be sure to check out the TED conversation that I started. It encourages people to participate in the 2015 Dietary Guideline process which just got started last month.
I'm sort of stuck here. Is obesity the problem or is it diabetes, or both? Solving two problems at the same time is likely to take more than twice as long. Within the past month the AMA declared obesity a disease. The cynic in me says that may something to do with reimbursement as much as scientific rigor.
ReplyDeleteDr. Attia's heartfelt apology at the end of the film is moving but unless his team finds a food addiction gene the non-sympathetic feelings of the general public towards obese people will likely continue.
Time and experiments will tell whether this latest hypothesis is right. I wish him luck.
There is a long history that Attia has left out of his talk. Perhaps you are familiar with Robert Lustig who was on 60 Minutes. Attia actually support Lustig's theory, that fructose causes insulin resistance which leads to obesity and diabetes. As long as people with insulin resistance consumed fructose, even in fruit, they would not be able to loose weight no matter how much they exercised or restricted calories.
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