The Dental Diet by Steven Lin

Author:Steven Lin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2017-11-13T05:00:00+00:00

HOW THE LOW-FAT MOVEMENT STOLE OUR HEARTS

The power of hindsight is one thing. But you may be wondering why, if all of these assumptions about the benefits of a low-fat diet are wrong, did we accept them in the first place?

In truth, the lipid–heart hypothesis was always just that: a hypothesis. The scientific evidence that supposedly proved it correct was always considered controversial. But it still became enshrined in federal public health policy and was promoted by health care practitioners and the media. How did that happen? We were swept up in a perfect storm fueled by our growing desire for an answer to heart disease and a societal preference for taut, slim “bikini bodies.”

By the mid-eighties, there was an overwhelming consensus that the low-fat diet was appropriate not only for high-risk patients, but also as a preventive measure against heart disease for everyone else except babies.15

(Let’s stop to think about that for a second. The idea that babies need a diet different from that of adults is absurd. The reality is that babies and adults need the same things, just in different amounts.)

In the 1980s, food producers realized that the low-fat movement was an opportunity for new profits and revenue streams. The industry began replacing natural foods with processed alternatives that were largely stripped of saturated fats. But this led to another problem: taking the fat out made most of these foods taste less appealing. So to put flavor back in, the industry packed them with sugar and refined polyunsaturated oils. In the 1990s, this became known as the “Snackwell’s phenomenon,”16 named after the Nabisco line of snacks that were low-fat but packed with carbohydrates and calories.

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