The low-fat diet took a big fall from grace when people realised that processed foods marketed as being low in fat were often higher in sugar. But going low-fat isn’t, in itself, bad. A 2019 follow-up on the Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial, which started in 1993, actually found fewer cases of breast cancer deaths and insulin-requiring type 2 diabetes in people pursuing a low-fat diet, with carbs coming from fruit, vegetables and grains.
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Last updated by Jessica Morris.