Interesting article in daily beast regarding medical community finally turning around and admitting that low fat propaganda has caused the obesity epidemic. Link to article: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/13/eating-more-fat-could-save-your-life.html

Here's an excerpt:

“While low-fat eating has increased, so have body weight and waistlines,” says Kerry Stewart, Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical and Research Exercise Physiology at Johns Hopkins. “Based on what we know now about high carbohydrate eating, the obesity epidemic was predictable.”

I have personal sad experience with the stupidity of the "low-fat" craze. My brother was diagnosed with Type II diabetes about fifteen years ago. He was paunchy, at the time--but had no fat anywhere else. His dopey doc said that losing the paunch would make his diabetes go away and put him on a very low fat diet. He lost the paunch but his diabetes got WORSE. He is now on daily injections of insulin and looks like he's in his 80s (he's only 57). :frown: They actually told him that it didn't matter how much sugar he ate, as long as he went fat-free or even just low-fat (35 grams or less per day). Now, the medical establishment has the nerve to tell us that we need AT LEAST 45 grams of fat per day to stay healthy!