[Comment] PURE study challenges the definition of a healthy diet: but key questions remain

The relationships between diet, cardiovascular disease, and death are topics of major public health importance, and subjects of great controversy.1,2 In European and North American countries, the most enduring and consistent diet advice is to restrict saturated fatty acids, by replacing animal fats with vegetable oils and complex carbohydrates (and more recently whole grains).1,3 In The Lancet, Mahshid Dehghan and colleagues4 echo the views of a growing number of scientists by stating that advice to restrict saturated fatty acids “is largely based on selective emphasis on some observational and clinical data, despite the existence of several randomised trials and observational studies that do not support these conclusions”.

Source: LANCET - August 29, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Christopher E Ramsden, Anthony F Domenichiello Tags: Comment Source Type: research