OT: the low-fat diet

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REPOSTING

Newsletter by Uffe Ravnskov

 

 

 

Did you know that the introduction of the low-fat diet was based on

speculation only? That no one had ever tested it, neither on patients or

healthy

people? A few year later the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Dietary

Modification

Trial, the largest dietary trial ever conducted was started. The aim was to

demonstrate the usefulness of the low-fat paradigm.

The surprising result was published last year in JAMA.. On our homepage

(_www.thincs.org_ (http://www.thincs.org/) ,click on News) you will find a

link

to Sandy Szwarc´s comments to the trial.

Uffe Ravnskov

 

This letter has been sent to you because you have previously shown interest

in the many contradictions of the diet-cholesterol-heart hypothesis and/or

the work of our group THINCS, The International Network of Cholesterol

Skeptics (_www.thincs.org_ (http://www.thincs.org/) ).If you do not wish to

be on the mailing list,

please contact me and I shall delete your name.

 

 

 

New Links:

_http://www.thincs.org/news.htm_ (http://www.thincs.org/news.htm)

_Good Calories, Bad Calories._

(http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3654291 & page=1)

_http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3654291 & page=1 _

(http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3654291 & page=1 ) An

excerpt from Gary Taubes' new book that hopefully will put an end to the

dangerous high-carb diet recommended for decades by health authorities all over

the

world. (Oct 1)

_Junkfood Science Exclusive: The big one — results of the biggest clinical

trial of healthy eating ever._

(http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/10/junkfood-science-exclusive-big-one.\

html)

_http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/10/junkfood-science-exclusive-big-one.\

html_

(http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/10/junkfood-science-exclusive-big-one.\

html)

Is the low-fat diet really effective? By Sandy Szwarc (Oct 28)

_Evidence for Caution: Women and statin use_

(http://www.whp-apsf.ca/pdf/statinsEvidenceCaution.pdf) by Harriet Rosenberg

and Danielle Allard. A

meticulous 36-pages report about the senseless and dangerous use of statins in

women. A publication from _Women and Health Protection_

(http://www.whp-apsf.ca/en/index.html) (Oct 1)

_Are Statins Overused?_

(http://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/pdfplus/10.2217/17460875.2.5.481) ,

by Malcolm

Kendrick, an editorial published in Future Lipidology 2007; 2:421-3. (Oct 16)

_WHO and the amazing cholesterol data_

(http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=i8SSCNaaDcE#GU5U2spHI_4) ,

by Malcolm Kendrick*; a youtube

presentation. (July 18)

_Book review_ (http://www.jpands.org/jpands1001.htm) by Joel Kauffman*:

Jerome K Kassirer: On The Take: How America’s Complicity with Big Business

Can

Endanger Your Health.

_Book review_ (http://www.jpands.org/jpands1201.htm) by Joel Kauffman*:

Richard Smith: The Trouble with Medical Journals

_Talk given by Uffe Ravnskov in Sidney August 2006_

(http://www.informyourself.com.au/The%20Cholesterol%20Myths.html) (Audio) (Aug

27)