In Defense of Low Fat: A Call for Some Evolution of Thought (Part 1)

Hopefully by now, some things have become clear:

• We can’t categorically blame low-fat, high-carb diets for heart disease and diabetes and obesity. We just can’t. NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT. This needs to go away.
• We probably can’t even blame refined sugar for that stuff (at least not in isolation). Oh, the pain of shattering assumptions!
• We can’t ascribe the effects of low-fat, plant-based diets to their lack of animal products. Quite a few of the uber-low-fat studies here still allowed a fairly high animal protein intake, and still managed to whip people into diseaseless shape. Sorry, vegans!
• Ancel Keys did not invent low-fat.

In Defense of Low Fat: A Call for Some Evolution of Thought (Part 1)