MARIKA SBOROS: It turns out a low-fat diet should not be what the doctor ordered
PURE research shows carbohydrates increase the risk of an early death
Doctors have been telling patients for decades to eat a low-fat diet to protect them from a heart attack or stroke. Now, major new international research shows that a low-fat diet is more likely to kill people. The PURE study, recently published in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet, shows a low-fat diet significantly raises the risk of death from a heart attack or stroke. According to the findings, the more fat people eat — including saturated fat — the less likely they are to die from heart attack or stroke. Data also show that the more carbohydrates they eat, the higher their risk of premature death, though not from cardiovascular disease. PURE is the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology cohort study. It is the largest study investigating links between carbohydrates, fats, cardiovascular disease and death. The Canadian-led researchers presented the findings at the recent Congress of the European Society of Cardiologists in Barcelona, Spain. Among the 37 PURE resea...
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