The anti-food fascists in the American medical community were put in their place – hard – this week.
The instrument of their comeuppance? An eight year, $415 million federal study of almost 49,000 women which concluded that low-fat diets have NO effect on reducing the incidence of heart disease, stroke and breast cancer.
You read that right: NO EFFECT.
Naturally, there are those who are attempting to tap dance around the results, and there are those who still cling to their outdated opinions about virtue and tasteless food, but let’s give the last word to Jules Hirsch, physician in chief emeritus at Rockefeller University:
“These studies are revolutionary. They should put a stop to this era of thinking that we have all the information we need to change the whole national diet and make everybody healthy.”
Amen.