Dietary Fat And Cardiometabolic Health: Evidence, Controversies, And Consensus For Guidance

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Fresh health advise from Gary Taubes and Walter Willett.....eat a low carb, low saturated fat, and high PUFA diet.

Dietary fat and cardiometabolic health: evidence, controversies, and consensus for guidance

“The safety of long term use of polyunsaturated plant oils was supported by a significant inverse association between the intake of polyunsaturated plant oils and all-cause mortality at 32 years of follow-up; no increase in risk was seen for any outcome.13 Evidence also exists that rapeseed (canola) oil reduces the risk of coronary heart disease: most notably, rapeseed oil was the primary intervention in the Lyon Heart Study of secondary prevention of coronary heart disease, which reduced recurrent cardiovascular disease or death by about 70%.55

Key messages

  • For cardiovascular health, substantial evidence supports the importance of the type of fat consumed, not total fat intake, and the elimination of industrially produced trans fats
  • Much of the evidence suggests that the risk of coronary heart disease is reduced by replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fats (including plant oils) but not when carbohydrate is the replacement nutrient
  • Controversies remain about long term health effects of specific plant oils and of high fat, low carbohydrate diets, and research is needed to resolve these
  • The focus of dietary advice must be on the consumption of foods and overall dietary patterns, not on single nutrients
 

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