Nina Teicholz: The latest flip-flop on red meat uses best science in place of best guesses

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Eggs are bad; eggs are good. Fat is bad; fat is good. Meat is bad; meat is… OK? That last food flip-flop made big headlines last week. It was a “remarkable turnabout,” “jarring,” “stunning.” How, it was asked, could seemingly bedrock nutrition advice turn on a dime? The answer is that many of the nation’s official nutrition recommendations — including the idea that red meat is a killer — have been based on a type of weak science that experts have unfortunately become accustomed to relying upon. Now that iffy science is being questioned. At stake are deeply entrenched ideas …read more

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