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Established medical advice has counseled a low fat diet for about 50 years now. But this consensus is changing. I believe that the evidence favors a low-carb diet, which implies higher fat, and that the medical community is slowly coming around. Gary Taubes has been a persistent advocate for this position, and has a new book (9/07) on the subject.
A related controversy concerns cholesterol and heart attacks. Taubes also argues that ‘bad cholesterol’ isn’t really bad, and that the medical obsession with lowering cholesterol is driven by pharmaceutical profits. NYTimes Op-Ed
The reason I find the low-carb position compelling is that the insulin metabolism is the strongest regulator we know for the rate of aging. Insulin is secreted (from the pancreas) to keep blood sugar down, but it also has other effects: it signals the body to store fat, and it signals the brain in a way that makes us age more rapidly (studies in mice and in humans). This is closely related to the reason that caloric restriction extends life span.
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