The low fat craze is part of a high blood pressure diet
The low fat craze of the last 20 years or so has contributed to a high blood pressure diet. Despite constant public health hectoring and a flood of low-fat foods on supermarket shelves, why has hypertension and heart disease continued to increase? The reason is that low-fat and other unnatural, processed foods is part of the problem, not the solution.
We constantly hear that processed foods are unhealthy and yet low-fat formulations and artificial nutrient substitutes are some of the most processes foods of all. Low-fat foods often contain dangerous hydrogenated fats or whipped up fat substitutes. Margarine, for example, was once considered a healthy substitute for animal fat but is now recognized as being more harmful than the substance it replaces.
What’s more, eliminating too much fat from your diet is unhealthy. Animal fat especially, has beneficial fatty acids and other rare nutrients. The answer of course is moderation. A healthy diet should include only about 30% fat.