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Saga Magazine - July 2014 - FAT vs SUGAR

IanD

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I was paying a rare visit to the dentist (rare since low carbing) & picked up the SAGA magazine & eagerly read the article "Fit for life - sticking to the FATS." The article challenged the current low fat advice & quoted many health experts. The bottom line is - all the warnings we are force fed against sat fat are spurious.

DUK & NHS are challenged, as are the British Nutrition Foundation &the Government. "The food industry may have undue influence."

Forum member Dr Briffa is quoted: "the bogus war on saturated fat is a colossal waste of time & money. The long running health programme to to get us to stop eating animal fats is not only unlikely to have done us any good, but may have caused considerable harm."

I will scan the article & post it, & then return it to the dentist.
 
Thanks Ian, look forward to seeing that.
 
OK......... me too, I was too lazy to post before, so I just 'liked' your post instead.
 
Was it based on the tv programme around the same time I wonder?
 
noblehead said:
Was it based on the tv programme around the same time I wonder?
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That utterly rubbish program shouldn't be mentioned at all ...EVER, a true NON-scientific program, waste of money....
 
modesty007 said:
That utterly rubbish program shouldn't be mentioned at all ...EVER, a true NON-scientific program, waste of money....
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Take it you didn't like it then
 
Like everything, they wait until page 2 to get the real message.
Not, 'fat is good for you' but in reality
'don't go low fat and replace it with an excess of sugar'

I low fat, I also go low sugar, and it works very well.

Balance is fine for me, I'm good without saturated fat, but I wouldn't say replacing the calories with refined sugar is the way either, and as it says on page 3, don't stuff the calories in either.
 
douglas99 said:
Like everything, they wait until page 2 to get the real message.
Not, 'fat is good for you' but in reality
'don't go low fat and replace it with an excess of sugar'
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Nowhere does it actually say that of course, despite putting it in quotes.

Meanwhile folks, just read the whole article.
 
sanguine said:
Nowhere does it actually say that of course, despite putting it in quotes.

Meanwhile folks, just read the whole article.
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I agree entirely, read the whole article.
I avoid refined sugar, processed food, excess calories, and it certainly works for me.
 
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noblehead said:
Take it you didn't like it then
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Not about liking or not, it was so utterly rubbishly made, but that's what you get in mainstream tv, felt like a big waste of money, when they could actually teach people something about fodd and physiology.
 
Nice to see that the tide is still turning.
 
modesty007 said:
Not about liking or not, it was so utterly rubbishly made, but that's what you get in mainstream tv, felt like a big waste of money, when they could actually teach people something about fodd and physiology.
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You probably thought it was rubbish because it didn't fit in with your own views/experience Modesty, unfortunately that's the way it goes sometimes.
 
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