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Is the Advice on Fat in Your Diet Wrong?

February 20, 2015

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For years we’ve been told to eat a low-fat diet to protect ourselves from heart disease.

But a new report says those guidelines — which recommend keeping fat to 30% or less of daily calories and saturated fat to 10% or less — were not backed by solid research when they were first issued decades ago.

The report’s authors even say dietary advice “should not have been introduced” at all.

U.S. public health officials made the recommendation in 1977, and 6 years later those in the U.K. did the same, in efforts to curb heart attacks and heart disease.

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