Healthy high-fat food
It’s February 25, 2013, and the low-fat diet is dead.
The low-fat diet has been on life support since 2006, when the failure of the WHI-trial was published. A low-fat diet did not succeed in preventing heart disease. Instead people with pre-existing heart disease had a 30 percent increase in risk of heart disease!
Now it’s game over. Today the result of another large trial is published i the The New England Journal of Medicine, the most prestigeous scientific journal in the world for this type of research.
About 7,500 people were randomized to either get advice on a low fat diet or a Mediterranean diet with more fat, specifically olive oil or nuts. After almost five years the trial was stopped in advance. The result was clear. The group getting the low-fat diet advice got significantly more heart disease, again.
NEJM: Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet
An earlier report from the same trial looked at the risk of diabetes. People exposed to low-fat diet advice had a much higher risk of getting diabetes. And study after study show that people have a harder time losing weight on a low-fat diet. So it’s more obesity, more diabetes and more heart disease on low-fat.
R.I.P. low-fat diet. Welcome back, fat.
