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I think you misunderstood what I meant by "old people": anyone older than a kid. People who do their own grocery shopping are almost certainly adults, and not w

I think you misunderstood what I meant by "old people": anyone older than a kid. People who do their own grocery shopping are almost certainly adults, and not what this story is about. Thinking back to my own childhood, when the low fat diet trend was still a thing, I do not recall it being something that was targeted at us or that we were interested in, while I do very much remember being told not to eat too much sugar - by parents, school teachers, healthcare providers and so on.

hilux 2y ago
You are being deliberately obtuse. I don't understand why you do this. Reread my comment: the "low fat diet trend" is very much a thing today - at Trader Joe's, at the doctor's office, and almost everywhere else - except a few corners of the internet.
- alisonatwork 2y ago
  The reason I asked what country you are from is because this does not match my experience growing up and living in various countries around the world, including briefly in the US in the early 2000s. From my perspective the low fat diet trend peaked in the 1980s. It is possible that in the US today there has been some kind of resurgence, but doing a quick web search does not suggest that to be the case. Just a small selection of the top hits... NPR in 2014 had a piece suggesting that the fad peaked in the early 90s and was long over by the mid-2000s: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/28/295332576/why-we-got-fatter-during-the-fat-free-food-boom https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/28/295332576/wh... PBS in 2004, saying this was a 1990s trend: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/diet/themes/lowfat.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/diet/themes/l... The Mayo Clinic mentioning in passing that "the fat-free and low-fat diet trend is a thing of the past - 80s and 90s to be exact": https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/10-nutrition-myths-debunked https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speak... Meanwhile the Wikipedia page on fad diets also specifically mentions the primary diet trends of the mid 90s through early 2000s being low-carb, not low-fat (Atkins, Zone, South Beach, Paleo etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad_diet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad_diet It is for these reasons that I am surprised to hear there are still places in the world where low fat diets are advocated, and specifically (in the context of this article) pushed on children.

hilux 2y ago

You are being deliberately obtuse. I don't understand why you do this. Reread my comment: the "low fat diet trend" is very much a thing today - at Trader Joe's, at the doctor's office, and almost everywhere else - except a few corners of the internet.

alisonatwork 2y ago
The reason I asked what country you are from is because this does not match my experience growing up and living in various countries around the world, including briefly in the US in the early 2000s. From my perspective the low fat diet trend peaked in the 1980s. It is possible that in the US today there has been some kind of resurgence, but doing a quick web search does not suggest that to be the case. Just a small selection of the top hits... NPR in 2014 had a piece suggesting that the fad peaked in the early 90s and was long over by the mid-2000s: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/28/295332576/why-we-got-fatter-during-the-fat-free-food-boom https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/28/295332576/wh... PBS in 2004, saying this was a 1990s trend: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/diet/themes/lowfat.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/diet/themes/l... The Mayo Clinic mentioning in passing that "the fat-free and low-fat diet trend is a thing of the past - 80s and 90s to be exact": https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/10-nutrition-myths-debunked https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speak... Meanwhile the Wikipedia page on fad diets also specifically mentions the primary diet trends of the mid 90s through early 2000s being low-carb, not low-fat (Atkins, Zone, South Beach, Paleo etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad_diet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad_diet It is for these reasons that I am surprised to hear there are still places in the world where low fat diets are advocated, and specifically (in the context of this article) pushed on children.