The War on Fat

Here is an article I found from Mark's Daily Apple:

http://www.slate.com/id/2248754

It's a short piece and I recommend reading the whole thing. Actually,I wish every nutritionist and MD would read this article and Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Gary-Taubes/dp/1400040787. Here is a VERY telling segment toward the end:

Will this new research on fat and carbs will be reflected in the 2010 Dietary Guidelines? According to Meir Stampfer, a Harvard professor of nutrition and epidemiology who worked on the 2000 guidelines, scientists on this year's committee know perfectly well what the evidence says. But few researchers want to shake the status quo or risk confusing the public. Robert Post, deputy director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, admits that when it comes to nutritional recommendations, "simple messages, few messages, targeted messages, are very important." Ultimately, then, policymakers have to choose between keeping the message consistent and actually getting it right.

So instead of an admission that the lipid hypothesis-dietary fat is bad and kills you so eat more carbs- is based on bad science and wrong, the USRDA doesn't want to confuse people by telling them the truth. This really confirms my extreme apprehension of the government having any say in my personal health decisions. Well, this and the condition of the roads.