Is the Advice on Fat in Your Diet Wrong?
February 12, 2015
For years we've been told to eat a low-fat diet to protect ourselves from heart disease.

But a new report says those guidelines -- which recommend keeping fat to 30% or less of daily calories and saturated fat to 10% or less -- were not backed by solid research when they were first issued decades ago.

The report's authors even say dietary advice "should not have been introduced" at all.

U.S. public health officials made the recommendation in 1977, and 6 years later those in the U.K. did the same, in efforts to curb heart attacks and heart disease.

Officials acknowledged the evidence wasn't conclusive when the guidelines were issued. The authors of the new report say that's an understatement.

"The evidence was never there," says James J. DiNicolantonio, PharmD. He's a research scientist at St. Luke's Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, MO.

The new report echoes concerns of other experts, says Steven Nissen, MD, chair of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. He says there needs to be a major shift in how doctors advise their patients on diet. Nissen was not involved in the new report.

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