Fat and Heart - an inventory
Doctors and nutritionists discuss overdue updates to dietary recommendations
The topic of healthy eating is on everyone's lips - and has been heavily criticized. Contradicting recommendations, dubious “experts” and, at the same time, more and more nutrition-dependent diseases: All of these are things that not only annoy experts, but also increasingly make consumers feel uncomfortable. An aspect of nutrition that is important in terms of health policy and economics is the question of whether and how consuming fat affects heart health. Since there is a lot of contradiction in this at first glance, the German Society for Fat Science (DGF) invited renowned scientists and experienced practitioners to a workshop on May 18 and 19, 2011 with the motto “Fat and Heart - An attempt to take stock” Frankfurt a.