Shifting Focus From Calories To Nutritional Value: New Fad Or Sound Science?
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 - 05:40
in Health & Medicine
It's time to stop counting calories and start promoting the nutritional value of foods, according to an editorial in Open Heart. Drs Aseem Malhotra and James DiNicolantonio, and Professor Simon Capewell, argue that rather like stopping smoking, simple dietary changes can rapidly improve health outcomes at the population level. They believe this will more rapidly cut illness and death from cardiovascular disease and curb the rising tide of obesity. For example, boosting omega 3 fatty acid (from fatty fish), olive oil, and nut intake have all been associated with reductions in deaths from all causes and from cardiovascular disease, within months, they say. read more