I was chatting to my mum earlier about how much nutrition and diet advice has changed since I was a teenager (I'm early 40s now). I remember that the received wisdom was that fat was the enemy of weight-loss but you could eat sugar with impunity - I recall we had a BBC diet book which basically said exactly this! And I also remember lots of talk about eating little and often, basically not every letting yourself get hungry lest your blood sugar levels dipped. Whereas now sugar is widely acknowledged to be the devils work, and regular fasting is claimed to be beneficial to our health. Oh, and I remember that we were not supposed to have more than two eggs a week or risk certain death from high cholesterol, and that margarine was better for you than butter.
The thing is, these weren't fads - this was the mainstream advice you probably would have been given if you went to the doctor or a dietitian. It makes me wonder if what we believe to be healthy now will prove to be just as misguided in 20 years time. What you you think?
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What current medical / diet advice do you think will be debunked in the future?
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cheeseismydownfall · 05/09/2018 03:49
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