The World's Biggest Fad Diet

(and why you should probably avoid it)

by Dean Esmay

The most common belief about diet in the United States today is that excessive fat in the diet is the primary cause of obesity, heart disease, and other health problems. This belief is extraordinarily widespread in both the popular imagination and in the medical community, and most especially among popular writers on diet. Consumer advocacy groups, professional medical organizations, and government health organizations almost universally endorse this concept. You can't even listen to stand-up comics talk about health or fat people without hearing a joke about fatty foods. The belief that fat is the dietary bad guy is about as close to universal as any idea in America.

And yet there has long been evidence that the danger of dietary fat may be greatly exaggerated. Unbeknownst to the general public, the theory that bad health follows high intake of fats in general or saturated fats in particular has long had its detractors--and the list of detractors has been growing noticeably in recent years.

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