{"id":14820,"date":"2016-06-13T14:41:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T13:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=14820"},"modified":"2016-06-13T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T13:46:10","slug":"irresponsible-health-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/13\/irresponsible-health-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Irresponsible Health Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Alison Tedstone, Public Health England\u2019s Chief Nutritionist said: \u201cAdvice to eat more fat is irresponsible and potentially deadly\u201d in response to a report by the National Obesity Forum which advocates that eating fat may perhaps help in decreasing obesity and Type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>The charity said endorsing low-fat food has &#8220;disastrous health consequences&#8221; and should be retreated.<\/p>\n<p>Other experts have likewise condemned the report saying it cherry-picked and misreported data.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Aseem Malhotra, a senior adviser to the National Obesity Forum, said: &#8220;The change in dietary advice to promote low fat foods is perhaps the biggest mistake in modern medical history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must urgently change the message to the public to reverse obesity and type 2 diabetes. Eat fat to get slim, don&#8217;t fear fat, fat is your friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Alison Tedstone, Public Health England\u2019s Chief Nutritionist said: \u201cAdvice to eat more fat is irresponsible and potentially deadly\u201d in response to a report by the National Obesity Forum which advocates that eating fat may perhaps help in decreasing obesity and Type 2 diabetes. The charity said endorsing low-fat food has &#8220;disastrous health consequences&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":14821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,44,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-health","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}