Low-Fat Diet

The article characterizes the low-fat diet, not low-carb eating, as the actual dietary fad. Severely fat-restricted diets present a greater danger than high-fat diets. The article says low-fat diets were not clinically tested for obesity before broad promotion. The low-fat diet was introduced in the 1960s as an intervention for heart disease. The article says reducing fat within a low-fat framework required compensating by increasing carbohydrates. A no-fat diet is more dangerous to liver health than a high-fat diet because it prevents normal bile flow and function.