There was an award winning article on this topic in the March 30, 2001 issue of "Science" magazine entitled:

The Soft Science of Dietary Fat
written by 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

http://www.sover.net/~timw/fat.htm

Basically, this article showed that a low-fat diet SOUNDED good, so the government went with it without proof. Basically, they did laboratory experiments on Americans and used us as lab rats to see if their theory worked. Well, the outcome was the fattest country on the planet with 60% people obese and diabetic.

Award for this article:
http://nasw.org/mem-maint/awards/01Taubesbio.html

This is an excellent article. and is posted in its entirety, here in the Research/ Media Watch forum .. Scroll down the threads list to find .. The Soft Science of Dietary Fat or click on the link to open a new window.

Doreen

Voyager,

I am so glad you posted the information about Gary Taubes! DH and I are going to a family reunion at the end of this month and I am gathering facts because I know two of my cousins who are nurses are going to give us a hard time about following this WOE.

One of them in particular thinks the AMA is infallible, so I intend to be prepared with as much information as possible. Just to be on the safe side, I may even bring our last lab test results, which were excellent.

Overkill? I think not; you don't know my cousin Debbie!

Anyway, thanks for all your good postings; I know it's a lot of work, but I for one appreciate it a lot.

Karla