Eat this, dieticians!

After years of reading news from the terribly exciting world of science, one healthy conclusion can be drawn: studies that confidently tell us what is good for our body and what?s not are as predictably volatile and worth disregarding as weekly tarot card readings and sex quizzes.

After years of reading news from the terribly exciting world of science, one healthy conclusion can be drawn: studies that confidently tell us what is good for our body and what’s not are
as predictably volatile and worth disregarding as weekly tarot card readings and sex quizzes. For if one year carbohydrates/proteins are proven to be good/bad for our hearts, the worst thing we could possibly do is to believe it and deprive ourselves of that luscious fat-rimmed steak or oil-drenched mutton biryani. One can munch on, reassured that a year or so later, there will be another study conclusively proving that it was Diet Coke that was killing us softly.

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And now, after building up an entire thriving industry on the premise that we are what we eat, comes a new study that has put an expiry date on this theory as well. The $ 415 experiment conducted on 49,000 women over eight years concludes that a low-fat diet does not,
in anyway, reduce chances of cancer or heart diseases. This increasingly health-conscious world we live in will be heavy-hearted to find that it has been led on all these years to believe that trimming that delicious fat off the diet would keep everyone young at heart.

Faith in dietary research will be sparse after this recent find. But it must be admitted that its recommendation — eat what you want, for it makes not an inch of difference — is incredibly appealing. Some deep-fried fish fingers with a tub of tartar sauce? Or will half-a-dozen samosas do?