New research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine calls into question the standard dietary advice that has been promulgated for many years regarding the eating of saturated fat. Based on studies in the 1950s, public education campaigns have given the advice that we should lower our saturated fat to prevent heart disease. This recent information gives support to the naysayers of this standard advice, who have argued for years that sugar and processed carbohydrates are the important culprits regarding health risks.
Researchers at Cambridge University reviewed nearly 80 studies involving dietary intake. In total more than half a million people were studied and their finding was that saturated fat simply doesn’t cause heart disease as we’ve been told for years. Dr Rajiv Chowdhury, the lead author of the study is quoted as saying , “It’s not saturated fat we should worry about. “It’s the high-carb or sugary diet that should be the focus of dietary guidelines.”
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