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Wednesday, 28 April 2010

A substantial decline in the percentage of energy from fat consumed during the past two decades has corresponded with a massive increase in obesity

Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 67, 556S-562S

Is dietary fat a major determinant of body fat?
WC Willett
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

This paper can be accessed at: http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/67/3/556S
 
Willett states: "Fat consumption within the range of 18-40% of energy appears to have little if any effect on body fatness.
 
Moreover, within the United States, a substantial decline in the percentage of energy from fat consumed during the past two decades has corresponded with a massive increase in obesity.
 
Diets high in fat do not appear to be the primary cause of the high prevalence of excess body fat in our society, and reductions in fat will not be a solution".

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