Below is a summary of a major piece in the journal science.  Does this sound
familiar?  It seems as if Gary Taubes has read my mind, turning the last six
month's worth of press releases into a well-done piece.  No complaints, but
it almost makes me wonder...


NUTRITION: The Soft Science of Dietary Fat
Gary Taubes

Mainstream nutritional science has demonized dietary fat, yet 50 years and
hundreds of
millions of dollars of research have failed to prove that eating a low-fat
diet will help you live
longer. Indeed, the history of the national conviction that dietary fat is
deadly, and its
evolution from hypothesis to dogma, is one in which politicians,
bureaucrats, the media, and
the public have played as large a role as the scientists and the science.
It's a story of what
can happen when the demands of public health policy--and the demands of the
public for
simple advice--run up against the confusing ambiguity of real science.
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