An NYT editorial today makes a wry point about that low-fat diet study. Similar to the hokum cooked up by the alternative medicine crowd. By the time science has caught up with the latest fad and shown it to be exactly that hokum, the promoters are on to the next piece of rubbish:
Meanwhile, experts in nutrition and chronic diseases have moved on to a
new consensus: it is not the total fat but the kind of fat you eat that
is important. Many groups recommend that people cut their intake of
"bad" fats, like saturated fats and trans fats, and increase their
intake of "good" fats, like those found in vegetable and fish oils. Of
course, such diets have not been subjected to the sort of large-scale
study just completed. If they were, by the time the results came in,
nutrition experts might have moved on to yet another approach.
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