Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tizzy. For years they had been preaching the gospel that the only way to reduce is to cut down the amount of fuel (expressed as the number of calories) stoked into the body. And to do this they nearly always recommend cutting down most drastically on fats, sugars and starches, allowing an almost unlimited intake of low-fat protein foods such as lean meats, cottage cheese. The current ruckus was started by what seemed like a heretical doctrine coming from, of all places, one of the nation's most tradition-encrusted seats of medical orthodoxy, Manhattan's Rockefeller...
...started more or less innocently when the institute's Dr. Vincent P. Dole and colleagues were trying to learn what factors in a diet determine how much fat the eater will store up, and whether there is anything peculiar about fat storage in obese people. Soon they had 32 patients in the institute's hospital, plus ten outpatients, on a low-protein diet with no restriction on the total daily calories-the test subjects could eat as much bread and butter with jam or jelly as they wanted, put sugar and cream in their coffee. Most of them...
...unhappy coincidence, another Dole experimental diet invited the same kind of publicity. This was an unappetizing formula made of corn oil, evaporated milk and dextrose-10% protein, a whopping 48% fat and 42% carbohydrates. Vogue touted it as a "peasant diet," and last month the Ladies' Home Journal gave it the full treatment as a "fabulous formula...
...fabulous formula" is essentially the same as a diet designed to produce liver disease and hardening of the arteries in laboratory experiments with animals.) Cutting down on proteins is especially dangerous for those in middle age and beyond: they need more protein, not less; also, they need less fat, not more...
...diet fads. Meantime, the best advice from nutrition and reducing experts such as Harvard's Dr. Fredrick J. Stare was: stay away from the trick diets; reduce only under a doctor's care, then cut down on calories but leave a sensible balance (say 13% protein, 25% fat, 62% carbohydrates) in the daily menu...