There is
a campaign against fat for nearly fifty years but not backed up with evidence.
Not exact matches
There was little attention given to Peters»
campaign against alleged business «
fat cats» while he was slugging it out on the election trail.
But a negative
campaign against saturated
fats in general, and coconut oil in particular, led to most food manufacturers abandoning coconut oil in recent years in favor of hydrogenated polyunsaturated oils that come from the main government - subsidized cash crops in the US, particularly corn and soy.
They have come to realize that the
campaigns against saturated
fats and the tropical oils have been largely a political
campaign, not a scientific one, and that American research has favored the newer vegetable oils produced since WWII with expeller - pressed technology that favors the hugely subsidized crops of soybeans and corn.
Since last year's flap over the 18 percent «
fat tax,» there have been scholarly articles, YouTube videos and ad
campaigns — for and
against — the concept.
In 1988, a vegetarian - oriented food activist group, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), warned the American public
against the dangers of saturated
fat and
campaigned for the food industry to switch from beef tallow and lard to partially hydrogenated vegetable oil — specifically soybean oil.
Indeed, Dr. Atkins wrote in the «New Diet Revolution» that, «The thirty - year - long
campaign against dietary
fat is as misguided as it is futile».
In the 50s and 60s the American government went on a
campaign against dietary
fats.
But a negative
campaign against saturated
fats in general, and coconut oil in particular, led to most food manufacturers abandoning coconut oil in recent years in favor of hydrogenated polyunsaturated oils that come from the main government - subsidized cash crops in the US, particularly corn and soy.
The McGovern commission, after all, was the source of the disastrous government
campaign against dietary
fat.
A heavy
campaign against saturated
fats was started, which included animal
fats, dairy, and the tropical oils like coconut oil.
In the 1980s, CSPI actually spearheaded a highly successful
campaign against the use of healthy saturated
fats, touting trans
fats as a healthier alternative, so take their official stance
against coconut oil with a (big) grain of salt.
A fact that is often ignored in the
campaign against saturated
fats, is that they also affect HDL cholesterol.
But he's also run a divisive
campaign and plotted with another conservative challenger to team up
against Evers in exchange for a
fat salary and personal driver at DPI — as well as power over urban school districts.
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