"Eating Fat Does Not Lead to Obesity" Says Study; "Low Fat" and "Lite" Bad For You? Low Carb High Fat Diet; Type 2 Diabetes Treatment Updates
The National Obesity Forum document says eating fat is good for you. Sugar is the enemy.
The National Obesity Forum in the UK, in association with Public Health Collaboration has recently revealed that Type 2 diabetes may be reversible through the use of a special diet plan. The diet included foods that are rich in fat but low on carbohydrates. The forum also pointed out that avoiding snacking could also be one way to curb Type 2 diabetes.
The forum concluded that poor dietary advice should not be ignored. People left to their own devices will end up making bad food choices that could be detrimental to their health. The study specifically said that the terms and labels that say "low cholesterol" or "low fat" have caused a lot of people health problems.
Highlights of the forum
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Here are some of the points suggested by the National Obesity Forum and Public Health Collaboration based on the latest scientific and clinical data. This was published as a document that may be accessed online.
- Eating fat does not lead to obesity. This is from the result of randomized controlled studies revealing that a higher fat and low carbohydrate diet is ideal for weight loss and reducing heart disease.
- Saturated fat does not contribute to heart disease; this type of fat protects the cardiovascular system. These points out the erroneous information that dieters have known since. Almost all nutritious and natural food has saturated fat.
- Processed foods with 'low fat', 'lite', 'low cholesterol' or labeled as 'proven to lower cholesterol' should not be consumed.
- Avoid starchy and refined carbohydrate-rich foods to prevent and reverse Type 2 diabetes. Recent review reveals that avoiding dietary carbohydrate consumption is the most effective way to reduce metabolic syndrome features. This claim along with studies published by general practitioners in the UK revealed the same conclusion.
- Avoid sugar completely for optimum health. Additional sugar will never amount to anything. Excess sugar intake is related to heart disease and weight gain.
- Avoid industrial vegetable oils. Recent human studies revealed that removing this from the diet can help reduce risk of death and heart disease.
Why reversing Type 2 diabetes and obesity is important
Obesity has become an epidemic in the UK and it leads to serious health conditions such as type 2 diabetes. The National Health Service (NHS) spends more than 6 billion a year in the treatment of this condition and type 2 diabetes costs 20 billion a year. Without any intervention, these numbers could even double over 20 years. In the US, the cost of diabetes treatments has drastically increased to US$245 billion in 2012.
Healthy eating advice
Aside from the published document, the Public Health Collaboration has also created an in-depth report on healthy eating and weight loss specifically for residents of the UK. This is available from the PHC website phcuk.org.
