The Pervasive Health Issue That Costs More Than $1.4 Trillion a Year in the US

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By Dr. Mercola

By Dr. Mercola

Recommendations to eat a low fat diet began in the late 1950s following the publication of several studies that reportedly found a link between eating fat and rising cholesterol and heart disease.1 However, as further research has gone on to resoundingly demonstrate, this conclusion was false.2

Unfortunately, the follow-up research was not well publicized by the media or acknowledged by the medical community and, as a result, the American public paid a terrible price. Since the 1960s adult obesity rates have risen precipitously,3 and childhood rates are following suit.4

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