Several news reports on low-fat diets proving ineffective

[cpush]

I'm sure many of you have read about the results of a recent study, it's been on the news all over.

It basically stated that after 8 years, women on a low fat diets had no less developments of heart disease/ cancers than women on regular/high fat diets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/health/08fat.html?_r=1&incamp=article_popular&oref=slogin

Thoughts?

 

[myCATpowerlifts]

Pretty good article, thanks

 

[Gordo]

There were many problems with that study....
for instance,
It didn't distinguish between the different types of fats and treated all fats as equal (including trans and saturated fats)


Most of their subjects broke protocol as well:

Women were told to aim for a diet that had just 20 percent of its calories as fat. Most substantially cut their dietary fat, but most fell short of that 20 percent goal.

In the first year, the women on the low-fat diets reduced the percentage of fat in their diet to 24 percent of daily calories and by the end of the study their diets contained 29 percent of their calories as fat. In the first year, the women in the control group were eating 35 percent of their calories as fat and by the end of the study their dietary fat content was 37 percent.

It was also created during an era were low fat was the craze....very ass-backwards type thinking.... yet the low fat myth still continues today.

So it's a flawed study at best and really shouldn't have come to any conclusion. Due to the cost and magnitude of the study they had to offer up some sort of conclusion.

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