What is truth? What is knowledge? And what are beliefs? Philosophical questions that are also present in the debate over who is right and who is wrong regarding the harms or benefits of animal fats.
Well, it all depends on who you ask, and maybe even more important is the question of when you ask. Just a couple of years ago, a Swedish phycisian was excluded from the national doctors society because she was prescribing High Fat (and low carb) diets to her diabetes patients. The doctors society regarded her prescription "life threatening". But court gave her the right and she could continue practicing medicine.
Today more and more people are starting to question the concept of truth in the butter-paranoid dietary advices. When scientific evidence has been scares, people have instead relied on their beliefs in the LCHF-movement, supported by numerous descriptive stories of formerly obese diabetics, today healthy and energetic low carb high fat eaters. Now these beliefs are being backed up by an increasing amount of scientific studies as well. Like this one showing evidence that sugar increases the risk of heart deseases while there seems to be no correlation to fat.
Sugar increases the risk of heart dease (In Swedish)
Are we seing a shift in the concept of truth here? In the end, who is it actually that has the facts and who has the beliefs?
Interesting times we are living...
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