Vernon: Low-Fat Diet Based On ‘Dogma Instead Of Data’

Filed under: Health — jimmy @ 2:48 pm

Pick a health ailment, any old one will do. Now think about what your family doctor would tell you about it in terms of your diet in order to help alleviate the symptoms of that condition. Whether it’s diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, hypertension…you name it, the answer is always the same–EAT A LOW-FAT DIET!

Doesn’t that just frustrate the heck out of you? Without any real evidence pointing to WHY the low-fat lie which has been such a miserable failure is so strongly recommended, doctors unfortunately take on a mob mentality and just do what everyone else in their profession does. They dutifully write out those prescriptions for Lipitor, promote eating grains and sugar to diabetics as long as you are taking your medicines and insulin, urge hearts patients to engage in hours upon hours of exercise which only make them hungrier, and then the granddaddy of them all–EAT A LOW-FAT DIET! UGH!!!

But is the low-fat diet recommendation actually based on any consequential long-term scientific data that has been proven to be highly effective for managing disease? Or has this dietary dogma been allowed to run rampant for decades without the necessary checks and balances that come from the results of actual data from real people who have actually survived living that way?

More and more people are beginning to see through this charade thanks in part to the September 2007 release of the book Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. But we’re probably still at least a generation away from the practicality of overcoming this “dogma instead of data” mode of thinking we are currently in as you will see from an e-mail I received from a concerned reader.

Click here to see this e-mail and to read the response by noted low-carb doctor Dr. Mary C. Vernon as she expresses her concern about why low-fat diets are given such a platform by the medical community.