Started by Michael Miskelly, May 23, 2016 · 1 Replies · 2,680 Views
There is an interesting news story going around the UK news today about nutrition guidelines. Those following Thrive will be familiar with Jeff advocating the concept of adding full fats to meals but it seems some industry health experts are still adverse to that idea.
There are always so many conflicting view on nutrition from within the industry, no wonder people get confused!
Thanks for the post Michael.
It makes it hard to know who is 'right' when you get conflicting word.
I think a few things that confuse people are: 1) Saturated fat is not bad or good for you, its a function of the amount and type of carbs you eat that dictates what you do with it. This makes it tough for people to understand because we have now come out of isolation to a multi dimensional problem. People often want to distill problems down to a single factor and this is not a topic you can do that with. 2) High fat diet and whole fat foods are not the same thing. A high fat diet by definition is a diet above 15% total cals as fat in the UK (best of my memory). A whole fat food is a food that did not have its fat removed via a mechanical process. Its possible to eat a low or medium fat diet by calories and yet still be eating whole fat foods. 3) There is only 3 macro nutrients - protein, fat and carbs. If you cut out as much fat and limit protein then you can only fill the void with carbs. Which is the lesser of 3 evils? Is it dogma to cut out an entire macronutrient(fat) and significantly limit another(protein)? 4) Triva: which industry has the most well funded lobbyist?