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The article is from 1993. If you are old enough to remember that time, it was indeed when official nutritionist advice was a complete failure. Eggs were advised
by hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
The article is from 1993. If you are old enough to remember that time, it was indeed when official nutritionist advice was a complete failure. Eggs were advised against because it was thought their high cholesterol levels raised blood cholesterol, which is false for most people who consume a moderate amount of eggs. This is the time during which fat was demonized (anyone remember SnackWell's???), the "foot pyramid" was the rule of the day that was based on eating lots of bread, pasta and carbs.
- bena 2y agoI actually liked their devil's food cookie things. And after a quick glimpse at the internet, I am not alone in that. It's probably the major thing they're known for now.
- dylan604 2y agoI don't remember a foot pyramid. There was the food pyramid, the $64000 pyramid, but nothing about feet. Just to have fun with an obvious simple typo
- pvg 2y agoThe 90s foot pyramid explained, in the 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCO-SBPTF5E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCO-SBPTF5E
- Mistletoe 2y agoFat is still bad in excess, you are just stuck in a different meme cycle where Americans pretend it doesn’t matter and surely couldn’t have anything to do with the rampant obesity.
- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoI don't know of any memes where people say it's OK to eat fat in excess or pretend "it doesn't matter". Even the extreme low carb diets aren't about eating fat in excess - if anything, people on those diets tend to lose weight because (a) not being able to eat any carbs gets monotonous fast and (b) fat induces a feeling of fullness, so people eat fewer total calories.
- lmm 2y ago> I don't know of any memes where people say it's OK to eat fat in excess or pretend "it doesn't matter". Hang around on Reddit for a day or two and you'll see them. Or heck, remember the Atkins diet, which was explicitly advertised as "you can eat as much fat as you want"?
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- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoAtkins doesn't say that, at all, and then explicitly mentioned extreme low carb diets in my comment.
- lmm 2y ago> Atkins doesn't say that, at all The meme version of it does, and their official website gets pretty close - fat is unrestricted, it's fine to eat as much fat as you have an appetite for, it's fine if a large proportion of your calorie intake is saturated fat. I guess "to excess" is subjective, but Atkins certainly says that fat consumption levels that respected medical authorities say are dangerous are fine.
- DrFalkyn 2y agoAtkins theory was if people restricted their carb intake they would naturally eat a lot less calories. Because counting calories is difficult, the easier thing to do was just restrict foods to ones that were low in carbs
- sfjailbird 2y agoTry eating as much fat as you can, without any carbs to go with it. It's not going to be much.
- TylerE 2y agoIt doesnt' matter in the sense that like 80% of what's in the typical American diet is far worse. All that fat that got removed was replaced with salt and corn syrup.
- newsclues 2y agoFunnily enough this was also going on… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agreement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Ag...