Indeed, up until 1999, the AHA was still advising Americans to reach for soft drinks, and in 2001, the group was still recommending snacks of gum-drops and hard candies made primarily with sugar to avoid fatty foods. Our half-century effort to cut back on the consumption of meat, eggs and whole-fat dairy has a tragic quality. More than a billion dollars have been spent trying to prove Ancel Keyss hypothesis, but evidence of its benefits has never been produced. It is time to put the saturated-fat hypothesis to bed and to move on to test other possible culprits for our nations health woes. Ms. Teicholz has been researching dietary fat and disease for nearly a decade. Her book, The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet, will be published by Simon & Schuster on May 13.
Posted on: Sun, 04 May 2014 08:57:52 +0000
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