What if it's All Been a Big Fat Lie?

Articles - Dr. Bernstein Shares His Insights

Gary discusses how the low-fat-is-good-health hypothesis has now effectively failed the test of time. In particular, that we are in the midst of an obesity & diabetes epidemic which is coincident with the progression of the low-fat dogma.

Dr Bernstein’s comments regarding the Gary Taubes article:

It’s about time that the truth finally hits the headlines. Let’s hope that Gary Taubes’ concern for the general public and for those who do not yet have diabetes will trickle down to concern by physicians for their diabetic patients. As the viewers of this site should realize by now, the adverse effects of high carbohydrate diets upon diabetics are far more brutal and occur much more rapidly than for the general public.

With the hopeful inversion of the “food pyramid” for the general population, perhaps the ADA will come to realize that normal blood sugars are not only necessary but are easy to obtain. I would hope that within the next few years, the ADA will give in to this concept and recommend normal blood sugars instead of guidelines that diabetics should have twice the blood glucose levels as non-diabetics.

Richard K. Bernstein, MD, FACN, FACE, CWS

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February 29, 2012

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