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Mainstream nutritional science has demonized dietary fat, yet 50 years and hundreds of millions of dollars of research have failed to prove that eating a low-fat diet will help you live longer.

Three papers on clinical trials with statin drugs, published in 2004–2006, imply that the observed improvement in selected trial endpoints result from gross reductions in serum total cholesterol (TC) and cholesterol carried by low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C), despite evidence to the contrary, which was not cited in these papers.Newspaper or television interviews with principal trial investigators contained statements that were far more positive than warranted by the trial results reported.

The Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial was designed to study a low-fat diet, a nutritional approach to prevention of chronic diseases that was considered promising. The negative findings from the trial were both unexpected and disappointing to nutrition authorities. The authors’ public responses to the findings articulated an unwillingness to believe the finding that a low-fat diet did not prevent breast or colon cancer or heart disease. The negative results should stimulate work on alternate hypotheses, and reconsideration of the long-standing proscription against dietary fat.

The persistence of an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes suggeststhat new nutritional strategies are needed if the epidemic is tobe overcome. A promising nutritional approach suggested by thisthematic review is carbohydrate restriction. Recent studies showthat, under conditions of carbohydrate restriction, fuel sources shiftfrom glucose and fatty acids to fatty acids and ketones, and that adlibitum–fed carbohydrate-restricted diets lead to appetite reduction,weight loss, and improvement in surrogate markers of cardiovasculardisease. Am J Clin Nutr 2007;86:276–84.

The leading exercise physiology textbook tells us a “low-carbohydrate diet sets the stage for a significant loss of lean tissue as the body recruits amino acids from muscle to maintain blood glucose via gluconeogenesis [the formation of glucose from non-carbohydrate molecules such as amino acids].” Consequently, many exercise scientists maintain that the low-carbohydrate diets suck donkey balls because you will lose muscle mass rather than body fat. However, this is clearly not the case. Further, many scientists still claim a calorie is a calorie no matter what you eat. This article separates facts from the urban legends.