Muscle Diet

Finally, the American Dietetic Association may be "Getting It". The American Dietetic Association (ADA) is the biggest professional nutrition organization in the world. Recently, at an American Dietetic Association Symposium, a group of internationally-recognized experts stated that the weight of the scientific evidence now shows that if you replace the so-called "bad" saturated fat in your diet with carbohydrates, you will actually INCREASE your risk of heart and artery disease! It was also reported at the symposium that higher fat diets are probably more healthy than higher-carb diets. If I were a "bigger" more mature person, I'd say something diplomatic like "it seems that a recommendation I've been making for over a decade now may finally be starting to catch on" ... but I'm not. I'm saying that the world's biggest Association of Diet Experts were asleep at the wheel for over a decade!!! ...and I'm gloating YET AGAIN about the fact that I've been making the correct recommendations to my clients and readers for years while they carried on ignoring the science! Now I'd love to say that it's because I'm some kind of genius and that only I am smart enough to find and interpret the geeky scientific research on this topic but the truth is that it's more to do with them being incompetent (although I can't entirely rule out the possibility that I may be a genius also - LOL). The research is all right there, published on the usual databases ... they just had to actually read it! I honestly can't help but marvel at how long it has taken for "the powers that be" to figure this  one out?! I've written several times recently about the focus on fat in the diet being the wrong target when trying to minimize ill health and body fat.

For years the evidence has been getting clearer and clearer that carbohydrates are worse for your health than fats. Waaaaay back in 1995, I was reading research showing a concerning association between the increasing amount of carbs in the diet and the increased incidence of obesity. I even wrote a paper on this topic myself back then. Now don't get me wrong, there are several causes of increased obesity rates but it is now clear that too many processed carbs in the diet is one of the main ones. This is a VERY embarrassing development for the ADA because they have been vilifying fat and singing the praises of low-fat, high-carb diets for decades! Now this symposium has echoed what I and a small but growing group of scientists have been saying over the last few years - there never was any good evidence that cutting fat improved health or weight loss! I've always wondered why dietetic associations are so slow to recognize new trends in nutrition research and this relates to my post last week, when I discussed how a dietician was overly dismissive of dietary supplements despite their obvious benefits in some circumstances. 

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