Sweden Becomes First Western Nation to Reject Low-fat Diet Dogma in Favor of LCHF

[jeff47]

62. 8% is an outlier.

The fact that it's a relatively common disease doesn't make it normal physiology.

More to the point, people on the actual low-fat diet as originally proscribed would be very unlikely to be diabetic. Because it was pretty damn close to the diet proscribed by low-carb. Yes, you alter the fat/carb balance, but the main thing were reduced total calorie intake, including carbs.

What happens is people apply a nice marketing label, such as "low fat". And now, "low carb". And people will believe that individual food is the problem. "Sure, the 'low fat' version of the food is 10 more calories, but it's low fat so I can eat it!"

We are going down the same road with low carb. In 5-10 years, "low carb" will be splattered all over the boxes of plenty of unhealthy food - "go ahead and eat 18oz steaks! They're low carb!"

And in about 40 years, we'll be talking about how wrong "low carb" was, because people were selecting food only on it's carb content instead of it's overall content. Then a new evil will take carb's place.

Or we could be teaching people to pay attention to everything they eat. It doesn't require counting exactly how many calories, just having a rough idea of what's in a meal will let you get close enough to a good target for your body.