UPDATED: The US considers itself a world leader. It isn’t in this case, even as the country’s government is poised officially to ‘pardon’ cholesterol – 40 years after demonising it. In 2013, Sweden became the first country to ditch low-fat dietary guidelines, restoring cholesterol in eggs and bacon to its former glory. Cape Town sports scientist Prof Tim Noakes has been saying for years that official dietary guidelines on cholesterol are wrong – and been pilloried, ridiculed and demonised as dangerous for it. Cholesterol is, after all, a nutrient your body has to have, because you’d be dead without it. Here’s a look at the price the public has paid for unscientific official dietary advice, and not just on cholesterol. – MS
By Marika Sboros
So it has taken the US 40 years to rehabilitate cholesterol’s reputation. The government is reportedly poised to drop official health warnings on cholesterol because the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee says it is no longer “considered a nutrient of concern for overconsumption” – a clumsy way of saying you can eat as much cholesterol as you like.
Better late than never you might say, and anyway, what’s a few decades between friends? Quite a lot, actually, when you consider the suffering and preventable, premature deaths of millions of people around the globe as a consequence of wrong dietary advice.
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