wtf?

Where’s the fat?!
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A train is coming and there are lots of food companies on the track… I have it on good authority that we will be embracing fat on the new dietary guidelines again! Due out this month from the US I will be encouraging you to take a closer look at this major change coming…
 
What does it mean? Our fear of fats has dictated the pace on how nutrition information has been presented to us. Our food pyramid recommends low fat dairy options for us for example. Now we are fat fanatics here not only for taste but for the fat soluble vitamin content (ADEK) therein. Butter is better… Science has conceded reluctantly that a higher fat diet is linked with better health outcomes. The keto diet / low carb versions are recognised and a powerful tool to reverse metabolic disease. But to date the guidelines have resisted embracing this fact. So what you may say…!
 
The thing is most people like to follow a guideline… how many times do we have to be told to always follow official advice...?
 
So having the obvious included in the official guidelines is a major step forward. Will it happen?
 
The food companies I fear will not be happy about this. Thinking it through when I focus on dairy for example, it is not hard to work out the impact will be colossal.
 
Let me walk you through it… full fat milk becomes the recommended advice. Now the food industry cannot separate the milk into the constituents and sell to the highest bidder the separate parts. Skimmed milk & cream. I am simplifying it but imagine if low fat and skimmed milk are not recommended? This is a serious hit to the dairies. It’s certainly not worth investing heavily in advertising to go against the guidelines. They will have to go with it. They will have to reconfigure everything they do… a major cost. Should they pass this cost on to farmers then the price of milk will plummet. The price has reduced recently. Perhaps it has started…
 
The low fat experiment is due to come to an end. Decades of destruction to our health that will go untold hidden behind the distraction of other health stories and interventions. 
 
Will the dairy industry take it with out a fight? I do wonder…

Anne Maher