Probably because they are very smart people making informed decisions with science and stuff:
Zoe Harcombe, a researcher and Ph.D. candidate at University of the West of Scotland, and her colleagues say that the data decision makers had in 1977, when the first U.S. guidelines on dietary fat were made, did not provide any support for the idea that eating less fat would translate to fewer cases of heart disease, or that it would save lives.
[FONT=georgia, serif]“[/FONT]The bottom line is that there wasn’t evidence for those guidelines to be introduced[FONT=georgia, serif],” she says. “One of the most important things that should have underpinned the guidelines is sound nutritional knowledge, [/FONT]and that was distinctly lacking[FONT=georgia, serif].”
[/FONT]The problem, as Harcombe notes in her study, is that advice was “arbitrary. The 30% wasn’t tested, let alone proven,” she says.
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[FONT=georgia, serif][Abstract of the paper][/FONT]
Sound familiar? Gee, which other issues does this remind you of?
Don't worry, they are going to tell you later this year it is ok to eat eggs again.
Zoe Harcombe, a researcher and Ph.D. candidate at University of the West of Scotland, and her colleagues say that the data decision makers had in 1977, when the first U.S. guidelines on dietary fat were made, did not provide any support for the idea that eating less fat would translate to fewer cases of heart disease, or that it would save lives.
[FONT=georgia, serif]“[/FONT]The bottom line is that there wasn’t evidence for those guidelines to be introduced[FONT=georgia, serif],” she says. “One of the most important things that should have underpinned the guidelines is sound nutritional knowledge, [/FONT]and that was distinctly lacking[FONT=georgia, serif].”
[/FONT]The problem, as Harcombe notes in her study, is that advice was “arbitrary. The 30% wasn’t tested, let alone proven,” she says.
[FONT=georgia, serif]==[/FONT]
[FONT=georgia, serif][Abstract of the paper][/FONT]
Sound familiar? Gee, which other issues does this remind you of?
Don't worry, they are going to tell you later this year it is ok to eat eggs again.