Let's Hear It For BUTTER!

Guidelines that told millions of people to avoid butter and full-fat milk from 1983, aimed at reducing deaths from heart disease, should never have been introduced and experts say it lacked any solid trial evidence to back it up. Britons were advised by an official dietary committee to cut their fat intake to 30 per cent of total energy and saturated fat intake to 10 per cent, while increasing the amount of carbohydrate. However, now some scientists even say the advice is responsible - in part - for the obesity crisis because it encouraged an increase in carbohydrate in our diets. Mail.