Talk:Low-fat diet

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The prior versions relied on secondary and not primary sources for studies about low-fat diets (i.e., newspapers versus journal articles). As this is frowned upon, I revised the article accordingly. (This was not signed, so I signed it myself) Jotakami (talk) 04:07, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Why does it not surprise me that citation is needed on this page? Oh, yeah, that's right, because most Americans wholeheartedly believe a nutritional dogma that science has never supported. Scientific studies don't support the hypothesis that fats are bad in the diet because they aren't. Jotakami (talk) 04:07, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

The link to the Cochrane-review is no longer valid, it says "This review has been withdrawn." Arvixx (talk) 15:54, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

The only external link on the page(Low-Fat VS Low-Carb Diets For Weight Loss: Results are in. Low-Fat Diets lose! - By Dr. Kathlen Zenman, MPH, RD, LD)is to a web page that is itself a link to an advertisment and as such has been removed by myself.Pupplesan (talk) 20:43, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Someone has added the subheading "Plant Based Diets" that includes anecdote by several vegan physicians, as well as claims about animal fat, animal protein and vegan diets, which are not supported by the references. I have seen the same claims on several other pages, using the same references (which include a bunch of books, including a book by a layperson and a bunch of cherry picked papers that are way too weak to support the claims) This is not scientific, not objective and certainly doesn't belong here. Looks like someone put this here to promote the vegan message (See discussion here: http://authoritynutrition.com/wikipedia-tainted-with-vegan-propaganda/ ). I'm removing it Krassssi (talk) 10:20, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

There plenty of PubMed and Nature and Plos articles that show the value of low fat diets on weight and epigenetics. I have started adding in those studies on the page.  Lowfatvegan (talk) 00:35, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Too short

I am astonished at how short this page is compared to Low-carbohydrate diet. Solo Owl 13:23, 27 July 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eall Ân Ûle (talk • contribs)

I agree. There is a lot that could be said about the history of the low-fat dietary recommendations. For example, the Ancel Keyes studies and the McGovern Commission, which first recommended the low-fat diet to the American public. I'll see if I can add something about it soon, pretty busy right now. Krassssi (talk) 10:24, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Although it is an unpopular idea, some studies do suggest that a high carb, low fat diet is effective for weight loss. Therefore, I propose to add a heading that specifically discusses the HC-LF diet as a healthy diet that uses some of the research.--Kam4441 (talk) 02:40, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Added External Links

I've added some links to reputable health promotion websites on the topic. This kind of information for the 'man on the street' seems to be missing on the rather technical and scientific wikipedia pages regarding Cholesterol. Lord Gorthol (talk) 13:43, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

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influence of carbohydrates section :

This study https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2673150 seems to contradict the last statement on the page here. I am not an ace referencer or fat-diet researcher but if someone who is either of those things would like to look into this, that's the link and here http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-diet-dna-20180220-story.html is a quicky summmary 116.231.75.71 (talk) 11:19, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

A summary quote from the Stanfard study, 600 fatso individuals :

Conclusions and Relevance: In this 12-month weight loss diet study, there was no significant difference in weight change between a healthy low-fat diet vs a healthy low-carbohydrate diet, and neither genotype pattern nor baseline insulin secretion was associated with the dietary effects on weight loss. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.231.75.71 (talk) 11:22, 21 February 2018 (UTC)