When I was in nursing school in the 60s, my nutrition professor, whose book is the best I’ve ever read stated that females needed 53-55 grams (not mgs) of fat each day to prevent breakdown of the fatty lining that protects nerves and muscles, and helps brain message conduction, etc. while males needed 56-59 gms. At that time the FDA was saying that butter, eggs and other great fats (bacon, etc.) were bad for you...and other such nonsense. This is still ingrained in peoples’ heads to some degree. My cholesterol levels are high but my arteries are clear and the tests always state that my numbers are due to hereditary genetic makeup and not to diet. I’m not worried about my numbers.
[ When I was in nursing school in the 60s, my nutrition professor, whose book is the best I’ve ever read stated that females needed 53-55 grams (not mgs) of fat each day to prevent breakdown of the fatty lining that protects nerves and muscles, and helps brain message conduction, etc. while males needed 56-59 gms. At that time the FDA was saying that butter, eggs and other great fats (bacon, etc.) were bad for you...and other such nonsense. This is still ingrained in peoples’ heads to some degree. My cholesterol levels are high but my arteries are clear and the tests always state that my numbers are due to hereditary genetic makeup and not to diet. I’m not worried about my numbers. ]
And we all wondered why Mental Illness seemed to EXPLODE from the late 80’s to the early 2000’s and beyond!
“When I was in nursing school in the 60s.”
Yes the federal government’s “low fat, low cholesterol” diet advise was wrong. For 5 decades they gave us wrong dietary guidelines.
I have used that fact as argument for not allowing them to run our health care.