Mediterranean Diet Fail – Nutrition Disinformation, Part I. | The poor, misunderstood calorie
In 2006, the WHI showed us that switching to a low fat diet for 8 years had no effect on heart health and was even detrimental for people with CVD at baseline.
I repeat, CVD patients assigned to the low fat dietary intervention experienced more cardiovascular events than those in the control group; in fact, this was the only statistically significant finding.
For further reading, see: “An adult conversation” about the Look AHEAD study