New York Times: Gary Taubes: What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?

New York Times: Gary Taubes: What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?

From 2002: "If the alternative hypothesis is right -- still a big ''if'' -- then it strongly suggests that the ongoing epidemic of obesity in America and elsewhere is not, as we are constantly told, due simply to a collective lack of will power and a failure to exercise. Rather it occurred, as Atkins has been saying (along with Barry Sears, author of ''The Zone''), because the public health authorities told us unwittingly, but with the best of intentions, to eat precisely those foods that would make us fat, and we did. We ate more fat-free carbohydrates, which, in turn, made us hungrier and then heavier." (Via Advice Goddess via Instapundit.)