However, the problem is not so much a dietary one as an issue that reveals how lazy Britain has become.
In the case of the French paradox, it may not be the dietary nutrients that keep the French healthy (lots of saturated fat and alcohol?!) so much as the dietary habits: small portions, no seconds or snacking, communal meals — and the serious pleasure taken in eating.
But then like so much else in the modern era, dietary fat became mired in the perils of excess.
It is not so much low carb versus low fat as that humans' dietary needs vary from person to person and sometimes change with age.
Furthermore, she writes, "if the Advisory Committee is dropping the cholesterol recommendation, could it be because so many people are taking statins that dietary cholesterol doesn't appear to matter so much anymore?" These are certainly points to consider.
We should not settle for the meager improvements attainable from the consensus dietary advice when it is already clear that so much more might be achieved.
Many need dietary advice: obesity can worsen symptoms, but some with advanced disease lose so much weight that their muscles begin to waste.
So much love, and so much hate.
