{"id":19586,"date":"2013-03-26T08:59:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T13:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19586"},"modified":"2013-03-26T08:59:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T13:59:18","slug":"take-diet-change-recommendations-with-a-pinch-of-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/26\/take-diet-change-recommendations-with-a-pinch-of-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"Take diet change recommendations with a pinch of salt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, yes, I know salt is one of the most dangerous substances known to man. Well, this week<\/em>, anyway. Next week they may decide to recommend doubling your daily intake instead of reducing it. It’s an example of the nanny state’s long history of providing inconsistent — and sometimes even dangerous — dietary advice<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The government told people to switch from saturated animal fats to unsaturated vegetable fats. But that advice may have killed a lot of people. As David Oliver notes, a recent study \u201cin the British Medical Journal<\/em>\u201d shows that \u201dthose who heeded the advice\u201d from public-health officials \u201cto switch from saturated fats to polyunsaturated vegetable oils dramatically reduced their odds of living to see 2013,\u201d incurring up to a \u201d60% increase in risk of death by switching from animal fats to vegetable oils.\u201d This possibly deadly medical advice has a long history<\/a>:<\/p>\n