Is Fat Killing You, or Is Sugar? What we do and don’t know about dietary science.

By artappraiser on Wed, 03/29/2017 - 9:20pm |

By Jerome Groopman @ The New Yorker for their April 3 issue

Ruminations based on two recently published books; excerpt:

....It’s one of many cautionary tales about assessing dietary data. Everyone wants to be healthy, and most of us like eating, so we’re easily swayed by any new finding, no matter how dubious. Publishers know this all too well and continually ply us with diet and health books of varying degrees of respectability and uplift. Sylvia Tara’s “The Secret Life of Fat” (Norton) and “The Case Against Sugar,” by Gary Taubes (Knopf). Both present a range of cutting-edge dietary research, both say that fat is unfairly maligned, and both inadvertently end up revealing that the science behind their claims is complex and its findings hard to translate into usable advice. ...

URL:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/is-fat-killing-you-or-is-sugar