{"id":24633,"date":"2016-04-13T06:46:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T13:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/this-study-40-years-ago-could-have-reshaped-the-american-diet-but-it-was-never-fully-published"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:02:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:02:25","slug":"this-study-40-years-ago-could-have-reshaped-the-american-diet-but-it-was-never-fully-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/this-study-40-years-ago-could-have-reshaped-the-american-diet-but-it-was-never-fully-published","title":{"rendered":"This study 40 years ago could have reshaped the American diet. But it was never fully published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-study-40-years-ago-could-have-reshaped-the-american-diet-but-it-was-never-fully-published.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>#nutrition #CrapScience<\/p>\n<p>So after 40 years of prescribing low fat diets &amp; demonising cholesterol, the largest &amp; longest clinical experiment ever (40 years, 9,000 patients, randomly assigned diets) shows that \u201cPatients who lowered their cholesterol, presumably because of the special diet, actually suffered MORE heart-related deaths than those who did not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if you\u2019ve been cutting on steaks, butter etc. for 4 years or more, you may have INCREASED your mortality rate from heart disease by %8.<\/p>\n<p>Oops?<\/p>\n<p>Via Oxford Martin School <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oxmartinschool\">@oxmartinschool<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A fuller accounting of the results of a massive government-funded experiment on fatty foods challenges the conventional advice about what is healthy, and what is not.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/this-study-40-years-ago-could-have-reshaped-the-american-diet-but-it-was-never-fully-published\">Continue reading \u201cThis study 40 years ago could have reshaped the American diet. But it was never fully published\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#nutrition #CrapScience So after 40 years of prescribing low fat diets &amp; demonising cholesterol, the largest &amp; longest clinical experiment ever (40 years, 9,000 patients, randomly assigned diets) shows that \u201cPatients who lowered their cholesterol, presumably because of the special diet, actually suffered MORE heart-related deaths than those who did not.\u201d In other words, if [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1490,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-government","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67706,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24633\/revisions\/67706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}