Tel: 01 283 4303When faced with the task of losing weight the standard response has been for as long as I can remember to reduce fat intake. Someone got that advice wrong because it hasn't worked.
Read this interesting article explaining what happened in the 70's when the fat in our foods got replaced with sugar. Doc's vision for the future isn't so bright, sadly.
There are more obese people in the world now than hungry people and the figure for people suffering with diabetes has doubled in the past 30 years.
Dr Robert Lustig, professor of clinical paediatrics at the University of California and a noted endocrinologist, does not believe these figures have resulted from a universal collapse of will power and bad food choices alone. That can't explain for the epidemic of obese six year old children, he claims.
Read the full article here...
