About a week ago I made a complaint to the NHS about their apparent acceptance of the research/review that showed that there was no proven link between eating saturated fats and heart disease, also that eating polyunsaturated fats had no protective effect - apologies for any inaccuracies in what I have just tried to paraphrase. But the general gist is correct. Yet, despite accepting this apparent non-correlation/causation, they still go on to say that current guidelines remain unchanged; men should eat no more than 30g of sat. fats a day, women no more than 20g. I mean WHY??
It's like saying that all the weather forecasts tell me it's going to chuck it down today but I'm still not going to take a waterproof or umbrella with me.
Anyway, I have just had a response as follows:
The diet guidelines were produced by Public Health England’s Nutrition Science Team.
Public Health England are a Department of Health and Social Care agency whose role is to improve the nation's health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities.
Contact details are as follows:
Public information access office
Public Health England
Wellington House
133-155 Waterloo Road
London
SE1 8UG
United Kingdom
Email
enquiries@phe.gov.uk
I plan to send them a detailed complaint. I'm just including their contact details in case anyone here is inclined to do the same
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Hiya, just browsing through and this caught my attention, Please can you clarify for me as I'm very confused with your complaint. Background - I've been - very successfully- following LCHF for almost 2 years and this is now my way of eating. Ive done a lot of laymans research reading in that time too). I now understand and believe that "there was no proven link between eating saturated fats and heart disease, also that eating polyunsaturated fats had no protective effect" ...... ie correct statement, as saturated fat is good and polyunsaturated fat is not protective.... to put it in blunt very basic terms. Isn't this what we crave PHE and the NHS to acknowledge and support? 🤔 I feel i must have misunderstood or missed something? Tia
The bit you've missed is that although the NHS accept that the evidence is solid, they have no intention of changing their policy or their advice regarding saturated fats.
In my mind, that amounts to a criminal act: deliberately telling patients things that are inconsistent with empirical evidence, in the full knowledge that this may harm them. A doctor would face (at minimum) a GMC investigation for that sort of thing. I suspect they're doing this because, if they admit they were wrong all along, they'll open the litigation floodgates. But they're going to do that whichever way they play it.
It's well worth reading. I guarantee your chin will hit the floor when you read the final sentences. The "eat a balanced diet" link leads you right back to a description of the EatWell Plate.
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