Is a Low-Fat Diet the Wrong Way to Diet?

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Is a Low-Fat Diet the Wrong Way to Diet?
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• A report that has recently surfaced, has issued
  a warning to the current dietary guidelines
  best-practices. The National Obesity Forum has
  emphatically stated that it is not fat that is
  making us fat, and that major health bodies are
  operating in the interests of the food industry
  rather than the public.

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• Their contention is that low fat and lite
  diets are actually contributing to the obesity
  epidemic currently sweeping the western
  population. They maintain that meat, fish, dairy
  and high-fat healthy foods like avocados are the
  way to maintain a healthy diet.
• The primary culprit to causing obesity they
  claim is excess processed sugars and snacking
  between meals.

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• Processed foods labelled low fat, lite, low
  cholesterol or proven to lower cholesterol
  should be avoided at all costs, and people with
  type 2 diabetes should eat a fat-rich diet rather
  than one based on carbohydrates. All of this is
  causing quite the stir and some ferocious
  debating among the scientific communities.

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• The report also said people should stop counting
  calories and the idea that exercise could help
  you outrun a bad diet was a myth. Instead, a
  diet low in refined carbohydrates, but high in
  healthy fats was an effective and safe approach
  for preventing weight gain and aiding weight
  loss, and cuts the risk of heart disease.
• Eating a diet high in full-fat dairy can
  actually lower the chance of obesity and improve
  cardiovascular health.

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• The authors of the report argue that
  the influence of the food industry represents a
  significant threat to public health and
  maintain the recent Eatwell Guide from Public
  Health England (PHE) was produced with a large
  number of people from the food and drink industry.

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So, what is the answer?

• Professor David Haslam is adamant that the way
  to maintaining a healthy weight is not to try and
  exercise your way around an unhealthy diet
  though exercise is important rather it is to
  eat a diet that is high in saturated fats (meats,
  fish, nuts, seeds and avocados are great sources
  of this) avoid processed sugars, and eat smaller
  portions.

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• Eat fat to get slim. Dont fear fat. Fat is
  your friend. Its now truly time to bring back
  the fat. Dr Haslam says.
• One thing is certain however, for the last
  half-century, the public has been subjected to
  insufficient evidence that has at best been
  misleading, and at worse been responsible for the
  rise in obesity that is now crippling our
  societies.
• Whatever the outcome, it appears that according
  to some scientists, fat is back on the menu.

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