{"id":8429,"date":"2020-12-14T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/?p=8429"},"modified":"2020-12-14T10:24:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T10:24:27","slug":"the-impact-of-a-10-limit-on-saturated-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/2020\/12\/the-impact-of-a-10-limit-on-saturated-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"The impact of a 10% limit on saturated fat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Executive summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a short note with a big finding.\n <\/p>\n

Introduction<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n

I know someone who was diagnosed with pre-diabetes and he avoided becoming a type 2 diabetic by adopting a very low carbohydrate diet. He committed to consuming less than 10% of his diet in the form of carbohydrate. To achieve this, he decided that he would avoid all foods containing more than 10% carbohydrate and then he would never exceed the 10% limit in his overall diet. I thought that was a clever way of executing his plan.\n <\/p>\n

It made me think of the saturated fat guideline that has been in place since 1977 in the US (and adopted in other countries since): “Thou shall have no more than 10% of one’s calories in the form of saturated fat<\/em>.” Notwithstanding that this guideline has no evidence base, if one followed the above principle of achieving this restriction by not eating any single food with more than 10% saturated fat, what would one be able to eat?\n <\/p>\n

The facts about fat<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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