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Dean Ornish, clincal professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute, took to the New York Times this past weekend to make a case against short term diets whose only goal is weight loss.
“Perhaps the biggest misconception is that as long as you lose weight, it doesn’t matter what you eat,” said Ornish in the New York Times Opinion piece. “But it does. Yet being thin and being healthy are not at all the same thing.”
Ornish pitches a low fat, high fibre diet that has the power to reverse heart disease and questions the value of low carb, high fat diets that do the opposite.
“A diet low in fat and high in unrefined carbohydrates caused the least amount of coronary artery blockages, whereas an Atkins-type diet caused the most,” said Ornish.
You won’t get many experts arguing the health benefits of Ornish’s diet. Trouble is, a US News ranking of the most popular diets stated that most dieters have a hard time sticking to extremely low fat diets.
Still Ornish’s suggestion that we evaluate diets and food on more than their calorie count is sound.
“What you eat affects which diseases you may develop, regardless of whether you’re thin or fat,” said Ornish. “Some diets that may help you lose weight may be harmful to your health over time.”
Another expert says thin isn’t synonymous with healthy | Montreal Gazette
Link: http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/09/26/another-expert-says-thin-isnt-synonymous-with-healthy/
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