Macro partitioning
The 'Lipid Theory' and 'Food Pyramid' guidelines, which recommend limiting saturated fat and increasing carbohydrates, have contributed to the 'diabesity pandemic'.
Be critical of official dietary guidelines. The paper argues that the 'Lipid Theory' and 'Food Pyramid' have contributed to the 'diabesity pandemic'. Focus on whole food sources of carbohydrates and healthy fats, and avoid processed foods and refined sugars.
This scientific essay focuses on critically reviewing the most prominent evidence supporting modern dietary and lifestyle modifications, and analyzing the historical behavior of clinical conditions that these interventions sought to modify. This allows for inferences about the potential error of research and decisions made, and sowing a new founded theory that promotes paradigm shift after rigorous research in this regard.
Why this rating
Based on observational data and the author's interpretation of the PURE study, but lacks direct experimental evidence.
Source
A falsehood that has been repeated many times becomes true, the origin of the diabesity pandemic, the most lethal of the 21st century?
Jairo Echeverry Raad · Journal of Diabetes Metabolic Disorders & Control · 2024
DOI 10.15406/jdmdc.2024.11.00276
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