{"id":1818,"date":"2016-05-26T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2016-05-25T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T17:45:08","slug":"the-fat-hypothesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/the-fat-hypothesis\/","title":{"rendered":"The fat hypothesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The UN\u2019s Food and Agriculture Organisation, in a 2008 analysis of all studies of the low-fat diet, found \u201cno probable or convincing evidence\u201d that a high level of dietary fat causes heart disease or cancer.\u00a0Another landmark review [&#8230;]\u00a0stated \u201cthere is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of [coronary heart disease or\u00a0cardiovascular disease]\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the last 10 years, a theory that had somehow held up unsupported for nearly half a century has been rejected by several comprehensive evidence reviews, even as it staggers on, zombie-like, in our dietary guidelines and medical advice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">-Ian Leslie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2016\/apr\/07\/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin\">The Sugar Conspiracy<\/a>\u00a0(<em>The Guardian<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The UN\u2019s Food and Agriculture Organisation, in a 2008 analysis of all studies of the low-fat diet, found \u201cno probable or convincing evidence\u201d that a high level of dietary fat causes heart disease or cancer.\u00a0Another landmark review [&#8230;]\u00a0stated \u201cthere is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/the-fat-hypothesis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The fat hypothesis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}