10 Nutrition Myths Experts Wish Would Die

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5. Dietary recommendations have been so convoluted

Were trans fats largely a result of WWII? In an era of rationing it did provide fat content and became an industry. Then major nutritionists blamed heart disease on ... fats. Dairy, butter, animal fat. Finally they noticed trans fats. Then cancer, a product of carcinogens and fat. Now we're realizing it's the American diet laden with sugar. Sugar uptakes the fat and enables atherosclerosis. It burdens the liver, gall bladder, pancreas. Keto diets seem to prove fat is fine if sugar and carbs are avoided.

A nationally known alt nutritionist told my dad to get your nutrients from food, simple food, unrefined food. We Americans eat far too much. Ditch the sugar and sugar substitutes. Avoid the fat substitutes. Avoid protein substitutes, they seem mostly processed oils and altered carbs to me.