| How did the "dietary fat is bad" roller
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| | health. They also benefit the brain,
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| coaster get started? Investigative
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| | improve arthritis symptoms and skin
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| reporter Gary Taub in his insightful and
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| | tone.For the last 20 years the Food
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| through research report published in the
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| | Pyramid put together by the National
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| New York Times Magazine explains what
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| | Institute of Health has expounded the
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| happened."It all began in 1977", says
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| | following advice: "Start off with plenty
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| Taub, "when a Senate committee led by
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| | of breads, cereals, rice, pasta,
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| George McGovern published its 'Dietary
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| | vegetables and fruit and go easy on the
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| Goals for the United States', which
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| | fats, oils and sweets."As you can see,
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| warned Americans to curb their fat intake
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| | the NIH lumps vegetables, fruit and white
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| to abate a supposed epidemic of "killer
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| | flour in the same box and makes the
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| diseases". It peaked in 1984, when the
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| | unlikely association of essential fatty
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| National Institutes of Health officially
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| | acids with sugar. This food pyramid would
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| recommended that all Americans eat less
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| | be closer to accurate if it was turned
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| fat.The food industry jumped on the
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| | upside down. The new one published
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| roller coaster with a flood of new low
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| | recently isn't much better but at least
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| fat products to meet the new
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| | it finally requires manufacturers to list
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| recommendations. Fat was replaced with
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| | trans fats on the label. Trans fats are
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| sugar or high fructose corn syrup to
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| | far more dangerous than saturated fat.
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| replace lost flavor. Millions were spent
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| | What more could you expect from a
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| on advertising as the "low fat train"
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| | government bureaucracy?The link between
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| picked up speed.The low fat diet message
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| | eating fat and getting heart disease has
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| effectively ignores the fact that some
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| | never been proven although the N.I.H
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| fats, such as olive oil, coconut oil and
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| | conducted five major studies and spent
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| the omega 3 oils such as fish, flax and
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| | several hundred million dollars trying to
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| borage oil are essential for heart
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| | show a connection.
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