This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, July 9th, 2018.

Myinkela Brown, among the dietary changes recommended by the federal government over

the past several decades, a market reduction in the consumption of fat particularly

saturated fat. This advice has altered the diets of millions of Americans and has

contributed to chronic health problems. Terence Keeley is author of a forthcoming Cato paper

wide as the federal government issued

damaging dietary guidelines.

We spoke last week.

There was a diet a very long time ago, I believe it was called the Banting Diet that focused on getting refined sugar about getting wheat and grains and things like that out of your diet and focused on sort of a low

carbohydrate lifestyle and that had it was a fad it lasted for a while and then throughout the 50s and 60s

Corporate America and presumably later on the government said no no no this is the way you want to eat is

whole grains relatively high carbohydrate lower fat was that the first time that we saw a sort of demonization of

fat or does it go back further? Well, funnily enough there are two bantings and

they each associated with the same diet. There was a banting in England in the

19th century or even late 18th century who was personally a very fat man and he discovered to his surprise that the best diet

he could come up with to lose weight was a very low carbohydrate diet. He said you should

avoid potatoes and wheat and all that sort of thing.

And then one of his descendants was the Banting in Toronto who discovered insulin as the treatment

of diabetes. He won a Nobel Prize, one of the great men, this is not a

sexist point, one of the great men of science because he happened to be a man who discovered that

insulin treated diabetes. But as part of his work he showed that the diabetics

would have a much better control of their diabetes if they had a very, very low

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