#9 of 10 Common Nutrition Misconceptions

When it comes to nutritional advice, everyone has an opinion. The problem is that there are so many varying opinions that it is many times very hard to find the truth. Some misguided notions are harmless, but others can be dangerous and can lead to health problems. Many nutrition myths get repeated over and over until they are mistaken for the truth. The good news is that slowly, the real truth is finally emerging. Truthful, accurate information is your number one weapon in taking control of your health. Nutritional advice from mainstream “experts” may not be based on science, but on outdated misinformation.

This is a 10 part series, attempting to separate the truth from misconceptions:

#9: Low-Fat Foods Prevent Obesity and Heart Disease - Conventional recommendations over the past 40 years or more have called for drastically decreasing the overall fat in your diet, but this fat aversion is a driving force behind today’s metabolic dysfunction, obesity and chronic poor health. Most people need between 50 and 85% of their calories from healthy fats. This is drastically different from the less than 10% from saturated fat recommended by the USDA!

This quote is from Kris Gunnars:

“The first dietary guidelines for Americans were published in the year 1977, almost at the exact same time the obesity epidemic started. Of course, this doesn’t prove anything (correlation does not equal causation), but it makes sense that this could be more than just a mere coincidence. The anti-fat message essentially put the blame on saturated fat and cholesterol (harmless), while giving sugar and refined carbs (very unhealthy) a free pass. Since the guidelines were published, many massive studies have been conducted on the low-fat diet. It is no better at preventing heart disease, obesity or cancer than the standard Western diet, which is as unhealthy as a diet can get.”

If low-fat diets worked, the United States would be the healthiest nation on the planet. Americans spend more on healthcare per capita than any other country and we are only 35th in longevity!

There’s no telling how many people have had their health harmed and/or have died before their time, by following these flawed guidelines. Despite mounting research to the contrary, low-fat diets are still being pushed as “heart healthy” by the majority of healthcare professionals!

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