08 Feb 2006
Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Report Says

This was a huge study, with almost 50,000 participants over a wide age range. That certainly improves it's statistical accuracy. But there one prediction made by a supporter with which I must disagree:

"These studies are revolutionary," said Dr. Jules Hirsch, physician in chief emeritus at Rockefeller University in New York City, who has spent a lifetime studying the effects of diets on weight and health. "They should put a stop to this era of thinking that we have all the information we need to change the whole national diet and make everybody healthy."

No, they won't. In fact, the attacks from experts have already started appearing, and they'll get more intense over the next few days/weeks/months, until by this time next year we'll have forgotten such a study was ever done. "Big Food" is way too tempting target for trial lawyers to let a study like this go unchallenged.

A large study has found that a low-fat diet has no effect in reducing the risk of getting cancer or heart disease.

(link) [New York Times]

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