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The Link Between Fat Intake and Heart Disease

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The second batch of headlines I referred to Tuesday related to an article published in the journal Open Heart (1). The study was a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials done before the dietary guidelines on fat were put in place in 1977. The studies analyzed showed no reduction of heart disease when subjects were placed on a low-fat diet; therefore the current study’s authors concluded that the original low-fat recommendations in the 1970s had no scientific basis.

Sorry, but we didn’t need randomized controlled trials in this case—and here’s why.

In the late . . .

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Eggs Are Okay!

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Actually they were always okay, but I’m ahead of myself. As American Heart Month continues, we’ve seen more headlines regarding dietary fat and cholesterol in the past couple of weeks, and I’ll cover them in the next two messages. Let’s start with eggs.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans are issued every five years. The Advisory Committee of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said we no longer have to be concerned about limiting dietary cholesterol to the amount in about one egg per day, a recommendation that’s been . . .

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