The choice of people who later get fat
A newly published Swedish study has examined what Swedes eat and what happens to their weight. In the 90′s a few thousand middle aged men in rural Sweden participated in a baseline survey on their eating habits, and were followed up 12 years later in a study on how their weight had changed.
The results? People with a fear of fat (avoiding butter and drinking low-fat milk etc.) had a clearly increased risk of being obese twelve years later.
On the other hand, those who consumed a lot of saturated dairy fat (butter, whole milk and heavy whipping cream) were significantly more likely to remain thin twelve years later.
As always, correlation does not prove causation, so this study should be taken with a grain of salt. However, Swedes following the failed low-fat guidelines, consuming low-fat products like low-fat milk and low-fat margarine, were more likely to become overweight. Possibly because they were left hungrier and ate more of other, worse things.
Is anyone surprised?
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The result of this study is of course predicted by Eenfeldt’s law.
The study
Holmberg S, et al. High dairy fat intake related to less central obesity: A male cohort study with 12 year’s follow-up. Scand J Prim Health Care. 2013 Jan 15. [Epub ahead of print]
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I know someone who ate 6 low-fat yogurts a day, but when I convinced her to switch to full fat yogurt she enjoyed it much more and only wanted to eat it once a day and included her own flavouring, such as berries etc.
The food industry needs some kind of regulation, but what, how and when? I don't have the answer. This 'low-fat' way of eating in so ingrained into our way of life it may be impossible for those who really need to change may not be able to.
I'm doing my bit, ie; spreading the word of LCHF, it's just a shame that no-one really believes me.
Thanks for your hard work Andreas, I know it's working for me and my partner and that's all I can do.
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Pan Metron Ariston.These 3 words have so much meaning which includes everything in life
from politics to diet matters.The exact meaning is u can eat from everything but in little propotions.
In both cases, most likely what is going on is that people with weight issues tend to diet, and when they have dieted, they eat more low fat products and drink more diet soda. So the implied cause-effect are both effects by whatever is causing the weight issues.
I am fully behind the insulin/Metablic Syndrome being the real issue - I just want to be consistent in my interpretation of all these studies - the good and the bad.
BUT just as we question any firm conclusions the study authors come to, we should also question any conclusions we ourselves come to... including your own assumptions about what is "really" going on.
I disagree with your "most likely" scenario... it may be a possibility but on what basis is it "most likely"..?
Until proven otherwise the scenario which Dr Andreas offers is equally valid... and based on my own experience I would expect someone eating low fat to eat higher carbs... this adds credence (in my view) to his scenario but of course I am willing to be swayed by any evidence forthcoming.
I recently had a colonoscopy and the GI doctor removed a 35mm pre-cancerous villous adenoma, and I just can't help but wonder if this polyp's development was dietary-related.
I think they found that peopel thats alredy have som extra weight take low fat milk to lose some of it??
There are other swedish studies that found that those how eat/drink more dairy fat are leaner!
Soo.. the obvius conclusions was that peopel should eat more low fat dairys or rather use more polyunsaturated fat as low fat margarine!
Its truth!!
That approx 200 out of 1600 got fat with a 50% higher rate for the low fat eaters means a 60/40 ratio of low fat eaters, or 120 low fat and 80 traditional style eaters got fat over the 12 years.
If all had eaten traditional one can according to the study conclude that 120-80 = 40 would not have become fat, i.e. a total of 160 instead of 200. 40 out of 1600 is 2.5% The study was over 12 years. 2.5% of the national fat increase - in this age segment at least - became fat due to that they followed government dietary guidlines ! Quite staggering. How many in total got fat over same period ? Is part of or the whole fat epedemic a direct result of people following the low fat eating propaganda ?