Sentences with phrase «campaigns against fat»

There is a campaign against fat for nearly fifty years but not backed up with evidence.

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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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