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Readers’ Responses to the “Low-fat Diet Failure” News

I want to take this opportunity to share your responses to me about the news story on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 about the “failure of the low-fat diet” and my response to that article (see my letter below).

Reader Responses

I just wanted to say my mother was one of the women studied in the WHI program. I watched her go on the low fat diet. Today she is 30 pounds over weight and now diabetic. She is also dealing with high blood pressure and her husband, who ate with her has had his second heart attack. Some diet!!! I learned what not to eat watching them. I have been vegan now for 4 months and my husband is also vegan. I want to be independent of the drugs that seem to go with “old age” in America when I am older and I want to be healthy and be able to play with my grand children.

Sincerely, EJ

Thank you Dr. Mcdougall for your comments on this Outrages information put out by the nationwide media. I found their information insulting. JNA

Sorry to say, they interviewed one of the researchers on NPR and he proclaimed that this study was proof that dietary changes had no impact on one’s health and the best thing was to ‘trust your doctor’ for your untreatable conditions. The interviewer was completely ignorant and just helped this clown sow confusion. Thanks for your efforts to clarify the meaning of the research.

Regards, DF

Yeah for Dr. McDougall. When I read this in the newspaper, I could hear your words in my head: A Clear Case Against Moderation!! D

Thank you Dr. McDougall once again. I known it takes time and energy to respond to these foolish reports. Even though 99% of the public who will read the headlines of that report saying a low-fat diet doesn’t not make a difference, and use those headlines to keep eating their fat based diet of animal products and say a vegan is unhealthy, I know you are right because it has been working for years and no report saying differently can take that away. RM
ps I have been a vegan [a healthy one] since 1971, I wish you and Mary the best.

This is just what the doctor ordered Thank you. K

This past week, when I heard the ridiculous news reports you cite, I was HORRIFIED because I have BEEN (in the past) one of those people who WANTED to hear such lies so they can, with peace of mind and wild abandon, continue eating all the “delicious”-but-deadly foods they grew up with. Therefore, I KNOW VERY WELL HOW MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL RESPOND to this news……they will DITCH even the minimal efforts they may have been expending to refrain from the DEADLIEST foods, and shout, with glee, “what they heck” and go for the Double Quarter Pounder with Bacon and Cheese! (et al.)

This message from you, two days later, has made me cry, because you are only ONE VOICE of very few which is telling the TRUTH, and it hurts me so deeply to see people (including friends and relatives) suffering and, ultimately, dying, when they CAN change their lives (and their “health destinies”)……and how do I know the truth?….from PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, thanks to your program. DGL

Thank you Dr. McDougall. We seem to be constantly bombarded by erroneous information from questionable studies within the medical/nutritional community. We appreciate your clarification on the subject. Trust me, this recent WHI study did not sway us from your regiment! RH