The fault lies with
the official dietary advice.
Many years ago
the official dietary advice to lose weight and keep your heart healthy was to eat low fat foods... the food industry obliged and provided us with a ton of low fat or fat free alternatives.
Not exact matches
Back in the 70's, when the nation was threatened by the rapidly increasing number of deaths from cardiovascular diseases and science had just uncovered that a diet high in saturated fats and cholesterol poses a serious threat for cardiovascular health, health
officials issued
dietary advice that entailed consuming less fat.
The USDA and FDA followed the Committees»
dietary advice and made the lipid theory
official and more popular — an «everybody knows» type of common knowledge that really wasn't true.
The diet fell out of favor during the anti-saturated fat campaign started in the U.S. and codified into
official government
dietary advice in the 1970s as a result of the McGovern Report.