High-fat diets ARE the best: Mediterranean diet 'significantly reduces the risk of breast cancer, diabetes and heart disease' Eating high-fat food can reduce the risk of breast cancer, diabetes and heart disease - as long as it is part of a healthy Mediterranean diet, experts claim. A review of 50 years of evidence concluded that eating unrestricted amounts of fat was healthier than any other type of diet, when it is done in the right way. See the study at http://ift.tt/2aby6j6. Scientists last night claimed that the ballooning obesity crisis - which for decades has been blamed on people eating too much fat - may actually be due to diets packed with sugar and food containing refined grains, such as white bread and pasta. The research team found that eating Mediterranean-style food rich in olive oil, with lots of fruit, vegetables, beans, cereals, fish and whole grains, led to lower risk of certain diseases than traditional Western diets packed with sugar and refined grains - even when they had much higher levels of fat. Dr Bloomfield said: ‘The emphasis in the United States at least for the past 30 years has been it’s important to reduce fat, fat of all kind, fat’s the bad thing. ‘It turns out that the obesity epidemic in this country is probably more due to our increased consumption of refined grains and added sugar and not so much from our fat consumption.’ See http://ift.tt/2acphW9
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