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Could America's diet advice be completely backward?
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October 25th, 2010
It seems that since the 1960’s, the more Americans avoid fat in their diet, the fatter they get. In New Zealand the per capita consumption of butter is three times that of the US:
http://www.foodscience.uoguelph.ca/dairyedu/intro.html
And yet it has a 33% lower rate of obesity.
http://rankingamerica.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/chart-of-obesity-male.jpg
Could it be that avoiding fat drives people to gorge more, thus getting fatter?
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