This has been in the news all week.
... researchers divided 48,835 women into two groups based on diet-- one group with 19,541 women consumed a low fat diet and the other group with 29,294 women consumed their usual diets -- and followed the women for 8.1 years.
The most significant result of the $415 million study is that low-fat diets don’t reduce heart disease risk. As the researchers put it, “Over [an average] of 8.1 years, a dietary intervention that reduced total fat intake and increased intake of vegetables, fruits and grains did not significantly reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke or cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women and achieved only modest effects on cardiovascular risk factors…”
One point made about the low fat dieters was that they generally didn't meet their dietary goals. If anything, this "blame the victim" approach underscores the lack of value of low-fat diets. If a group of people, who know they're being monitored, and who know their results will show up in medical journals, can't stick to a particular diet, why should we expect the average Joe to do any better?
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