Should a Low-Fat, High-Carbohydrate Diet Be Recommended for Everyone?
- 21 August 1997
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 337 (8) , 562-567
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199708213370811
Abstract
The Case for a Low-Fat, High-Carbohydrate DietThe association between the dietary intake of fat and cholesterol and the extent of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease has been recognized since 1907, when de Langen found little atherosclerosis in native Javanese but extensive atherosclerosis in the Dutch settlers in Java.1 As might be expected, the diets of the two groups of people differed greatly in fat content. At almost the same time in Russia, Anitschkow produced extensive atherosclerosis in rabbits by feeding them cholesterol and fat.2 In both humans and animals fed high-fat, high-cholesterol diets, serum cholesterol levels greatly increased. Subsequently, . . .Keywords
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