Low fat diet shocker

The CNN headlines were surely encouraging to Mc Donald's and other peddlers of fatty foods. What a sensational headline "Low-Fat Diets Disappoint for Cancer and Heart Disease". Even the local newspapers picked up the call and published it. What joy to tweak the nose of the low-fat boosting killjoys.

Yet is that the whole story?

What's interesting about this article is that on casual review it seems to go against popular received wisdom. It has been often stated that low fat diets lessen heart disease and the study seems negate this assertion.

Read closer and it states that the study population was older than usual, and these were post-menopausal women. Perhaps we should call this a study of the effects of low fat diet on post-menopausal women.

It is food for thought that IN POST-MENOPAUSAL WOMEN, A LOW FAT DIET MAY NOT LOWER THE INCIDENCE OF HEART DISEASE .

This we need to note even if it doesn't make for sexy headlines.