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Following
up on their presentations on "How
to Lose Weight Without Going Hungry", Psychologist Dr.
David Weed and Southcoast
Health Registered Dietitian Amanda Raposo, MS, RDN, CDE, presented a
session at the Massachusetts
Dietetic Association Nutrition
Convention and Exposition on April 1, 2016 on "Why do we continue
to recommend limitations on dietary fats - What is the current
evidence?". Dr. Weed the session started
by explaining the rationale for lifting limits on dietary fats while
cutting back on carbohydrates as the key factor in lowering obesity rates.
Ms. Raposo followed by describing the positive results she has had in
treating obese patients in the Southcoast
Diabetes Management Program. This approach to reducing obesity
by reducing
dietary carbohydrates and increasing fat is backed
by years of research that contradicts current recommendations. Click
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(Top row) A number of
displays were available at the Exposition, including one on full-fat
dairy products, as well as hard boiled eggs as a snack item. (Row two) Southcoast
Health Dietitian Maureen Fletcher and HealthFirst
Family Care Center Dietitian Pam Bermudez pose for a photo and look
at Southcoast
Health Diabetes
Management Program (DMP) dietitian Amanda Raposo's photos of her
baby with DMP Dietitian Barbara Soares. (Row three) Dr. Weed begins his
presentation to over a hundred in attendance. (Row four) Dr. Weed
explains why lowering dietary fats has not brought the obesity rates
down and went on to describe an approach that lowers carbohydrates and
increases dietary fats advocated by Gary
Taubes and Nina Teicholz.
(Bottom row) Ms. Raposo concludes the presentation by describing how the
approach has been successfully used with patients in her Diabetes
Management Program.
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video of the presentation,