Healthy Fat
The suggestion to get rid of the restriction on total fat intake is contained in a recently released report from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and also is based on new scientific evidence, said the writers of the JAMA Viewpoint post. Healthy fats are a vital part of a nutritious diet.
USDA as well as the Department of Health and Human Services will examine the advising committee's report in the coming months before settling the Dietary Guidelines.
In 1980, the Dietary Guidelines advised restricting total fat to 30 percent of calories with the purpose of reducing saturated fat and cholesterol to decrease heart disease risk. The recommendation was changed in 2005 to a variance of 20 to 35 percent of calories.
The new advising committee report concluded up that reducing total fat does not reduce the danger of heart disease which the emphasis rather ought to be positioned on a healthy diet regimen pattern that consist of more veggies, fruits, whole grains, seafood, vegetables and dairy products and less meats, sugar-sweetened meals as well as beverages, and also improved grains.
“A restructuring of national nutritional policy is warranted to move away from total fat reduction and toward healthy food choices, including those higher in healthful fats,” concluded Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian of Tufts and Dr. David Ludwig of Boston Children’s Hospital.
So, from my perspective they are moving in the right direction though they have not yet arrived. Animal fats from healthy, grass based animals is the best source of healthy fats available today. When your diet contains all grain fed animal fats then the study would be accurate but not so with grass based livestock and the resulting fat. EAT MORE GRASS BASED ANIMAL FATS FOR YOUR HEALTH FAT and enjoy life!
The existing restriction on total fat intake must be removed from the 2015 Dietary Guideline for Americans, based on a study by researchers from Tufts University as well as Boston Children's Hospital published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).