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

Is a Low-Fat Diet the Wrong Way to Diet ?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eat fat to get slim. Don’t fear fat. Fat is your friend. It’s 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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